Practical examples

Headquarters of Renewable Energy Systems Limited, a company who design and manufacture renewable energy systems such as wind turbines. The project was the refurbishment of an existing Ovaltine egg farm into a modern office building suitable as a corporate HQ and included:

• 225 kW wind turbine;
• grey water re-use;
• photovoltaic cells;
• growing on site of wood chip, which is then used in the biomass boiler to provide hot water and heating for the building;
• one of the new buildings partly sunk into the ground;
• ground water cooling from borehole going down into chalk aquifer;
• seasonal underground 1,400m3 heat store, storing heat from the photovoltaics in the summer, for use in the winter.

For more details see the Beaufort Court website.