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In Depth Real World Energy Efficiency Case Studies

A City Council Seafront Services wanted to better understand their consumption of water, electricity and gas in their sea front premises such as toilets, workshops, arches and playgrounds.

Efficiency Direct Ltd was commissioned to assist by conducting an energy audit and site energy ins...

Installation of main boiler digital burner controls

The main boiler house at The Royal Sussex County hospital houses four large boilers which supply MTHW @ 125°C to large areas of the site.

The boilers are old and were outdated featuring mechanical controls ...

The Sussex Kidney Centre, a part of The Royal Sussex County Hospital, is a relatively new building which first opened in 2004.  Its HVAC systems are based upon chilled beams fed by 8 Hoval boilers and two Carrier chillers located in a roof plant room.

The unit, comprising two floor...

A Sussex based cosmetics factory manager had noticed that since his electricity supplier had installed a new meter his energy bills had mysteriously increased from around £18,000 pa to £80,000 pa.

The electricity supplier had already confirmed the accuracy of his tariff mete...

A large Local Authority have been installing cavity wall installation to many of its tenanted properties.

The insulation installers awarded the work,  in an effort to provide clear evidence of the benefits of the insulation, asked Efficiency Direct Ltd to provide thermal images of ...

This project marked the start of our involvement with this large university NHS Trust. Having spent some time on site we realised that the plant in the hospital clearly lacked maintenance, was in need of repair or upgrade and was no longer under the control of the Trend BMS.

It became...

The local council at a popular English seaside city wanted to achieve better control of its energy and other public utilities supplied to sea front sites such as public toilets, arches, railway premises and cafeterias.

To this end, Efficiency Direct were approached with a view to examin...

This particular site is a leisure centre run by the local authority. The site, originally built in 1939 as a sports centre was extended in 1983 to include the swimming pool.

The centre has been threatened with closure and redevelopment, but recently this decision has been reversed and i...

A large sixth form college with 1800 students was struggling with ever increasing energy costs on its 10,100 m2 site.  As part of a strategy to gain control of them it contacted the Carbon Trust for assistance.  Efficiency Direct were tasked to conduct an Opportunities Asse...