Reports

ABC Insight: Heat Pump Development

This insight paper summarises ABC’s programme to date of testing the performance of domestic heat pumps for space heating. It includes an assessment of commercially available heat pumps and the development of thermal modelling of CO2 heat pumps and their building application, including the application of thermal storage.  The paper also describes how heat pump design incorporating new technology to increase performance efficiency can be tested using ABC’s laboratory testing facility.

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ABC Insight: Approach to Energy Systems Integration

In this insight paper, Dr Kerry Mashford OBE explains how ABC has worked to integrate the energy systems required for an active building. Following on from the publication of ABC’s Blueprint, this document focuses on integration as a principle to consider at all stages of the energy hierarchy pyramid. Dr Mashford takes us through the reasons for integration and how this has been achieved in practice by ABC in some of their projects.

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ABC Insight: The 3 Cs: A new framework for getting buildings right

It is widely understood that there are certain trade-offs implicit in making our homes and other buildings greener and more sustainable – whether in new-builds or via retrofitting existing structures.  Greater initial capital expenditure, in the form of higher up-front costs, translates into lower operating expenditure, in the form of decreased energy consumption and savings…

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