even better than the best building ever? the zicer and elizabeth fry low energy buildings
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Even Better than the Best Building Ever? The ZICER and Elizabeth Fry Low Energy Buildings. Keith Tovey M.A., PhD, CEng, MICE Energy Science Director: Low Carbon Innovation Centre School of Environmental Sciences. Main Energy Conservation Projects at UEA. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Even Better than the Best Building Ever?The ZICER and Elizabeth Fry Low Energy Buildings
Keith Tovey M.A., PhD, CEng, MICEEnergy Science Director: Low Carbon Innovation Centre
School of Environmental Sciences
Main Energy Conservation Projects at UEA
• Constable Terrace/ Nelson Court Student Residences
• Elizabeth Fry Building
• Combined Heat and Power
• School of Medicine
• ZICER Building
The Future
• Absorption Chilling
The Elizabeth Fry Building
The Elizabeth Fry Building
•Termodeck Construction
•Air is circulated through whole fabric of building
•Heated using a normal domestic heating boiler (24 kW)
•No heat supply needed at temperatures as cool as 9oC
•Triple glazing with Low Emissivity Glass ~ quadruple glazing
•180 mm insulated cavity
•300 mm roof insulation
•100 mm floor insulation
•Air – Pressure Test at 50 Pa – not to exceed 1.0 ach
• Actual performance 0.97 ach
• Has deteriorated slightly since 1996
• Uses regenerative Heat Exchangers 85% with heat recovery
Fresh Air
Stale Air
Stale Air
Fresh Air
Operation of Regenerative Heat Exchangers
Electricity Comsumption - Elzabeth Fry
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The performance of the building has improved with
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Energy Consumption in Elizabeth Fry
Heating provided by domestic sized boilers.
Energy requirement 20% of good practice for Academic Buildings.
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thermal comfort +28%
air quality +36%
lighting +25%
noise +26%
Elizabeth Fry
User Satisfaction
An energy efficient building reduces carbon dioxide
AND
is a better building to work in.
Elizabeth Fry: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and User Satisfaction
The ZICER Building
• Follows the tradition of the Elizabeth Fry Building
• Uses Termodeck construction
• Draws heat from University Heating Main
• Has a 34 kW array of Photo Voltaic cells on top floor and roof
Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental
Research
ZICER Construction
ZICER Construction
ZICER Construction
Ducts in floor slab
Installation of Solar Panels
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Elizabeth Fry performance has improved over years. ZICER will be better and less than 70% of emissions of mid 90’s best practice building
Photovoltaic cells will generate ~ 30 kW and save 20 tonnes CO2 per annum.
Projected Performance of ZICER
Variation of Carbon Emission and Carbon Index with Building Regulations
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Performance of Elizabeth Fry and ZICER
UEA Combined Heat and Power Scheme
UEA CHP Scheme
• Until 1999 most heat for space heating was supplied by large boilers
• Primary main temperature ~ 110 – 120oC
• All electricity imported
• Energy bill was in excess of £1 million per year
• Three 1 MWe generators are now installed
• Provide the majority of the electricity for the campus
• Export electricity at periods of low demand
• Waste heat is used a primary heat source
• Supplemented by existing boilers
• CHP has reduced that figure by £400 000 per year
CHP Review
839015101.79.26537.68555.0tonnes 0.2770.1860.43kg/kWh 331503514815819895328kWh1997/98balloons totaloilgaselectricity
571010278.0255.55256.92698.90.02486.7-420.1 tonnes
0.2770.1860.186 0.43-0.43 kg/ kWh
922563282630771451007815630431578310097700020436531kWh1999/00
balloonstotaloilCHPboilersGener-ationimportexportelectricity
Saving in CO2 emissions as a result of CHP - 4824 tonnes CO2 or 31.9%
Equivalent to 2680 hot air balloons.
[Note: UEA expanded during time and consumption increased so CO2 savings are really higher than this].
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