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  The Environmental Design Pocketbook

chapter 12
Low and zero carbon technologies and renewables

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© Sofie Pelsmakers - Edition 2 updates highlighted with a ' tick' symbol and new sections highlighted with a star.

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Further reading weblinks - Edition 1 

GENERAL CHAPTER LINKS

• Building Regulations: Region 2, 4; Region 1 and Region 3
• BRE Domestic Energy Fact File 2008  
• CAT, Zero Carbon Britain 2030, 2010 
• CIBSE Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers 
• EST, Domestic Low and zero carbon technologies, 2010 
• GLA Renewable Energy Toolkit (2004) 
• Mackay (2008), Sustainable Energy, Without the Hot Air, UIT Cambridge Ltd.
• NHBC, A review of micro generation and renewable technologies (2008) 
• Renewables feasibility: RETScreen
• The Department for Energy and Climate Change
• SAP 2009  
• Carbon Trust Standards 

WIND  
 • British Wind Energy Association and standards here
• EST, Location, location, location, Domestic small-scale wind field trial report, 2009 
• local wind speed data 
• Mackay (2008), Sustainable Energy, Without the Hot Air, UIT Cambridge Ltd.

SOLAR

• Building Regulations: Region 2, 4: Part L; Region 1: Technical Handbook Section 6 and Region 3: Technical Booklet F
• COSSH 1994 
• Domestic Heating Compliance Guide, Communities and Local Government, NBS publishing 
• Energy Savings Trust, CE131 
• Energy Savings Trust, Community Heating – a Guide (2004) 
• Energy Savings Trust, Domestic Low and zero carbon technologies, 2010 
• Fthenakis and Alsema (2004), Photovoltaics Energy Payback Times, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and External Costs: 2004 
• GLA Renewable Energy Toolkit : pp 92–106: feasibility tables, p 107: heat/electricity demands • NHBC, A review of micro generation and renewable technologies (2008) 
• NHBC, Community Heating and Combined Heat and Power (2009) 
• Renewables feasibility: RETScreen
• Solar Trade Association 
• The Green Deal 
• Carbon Trust Standards  

CHP 
• Building Regulations: Region 2, 4: Part L; Region 1: Technical Handbook Section 6 and Region 3: Technical Booklet F
• Carbon Trust, Introducing Combined Heat and Power and Technology Fact Sheet 
• CHPA, Community Energy: Planning, development and delivery (2010) 
• Clean Air Act 
• Energy Savings Trust, Domestic Low and zero carbon technologies, 2010 
• GLA Renewable Energy Toolkit
• NHBC, A review of micro generation and renewable technologies (2008) 
• NHBC, Community Heating and Combined Heat and Power (2009)  
• Pollution Prevention and Control 
• SAP 2009, Appendix N

BIOMASS

• Biomass Energy Centre• Building Regulations: Region 2, 4: Part L; Region 1: Technical Handbook Section 6 and Region 3: Technical Booklet F
• Clean Air Act  • EST, Domestic Low and zero carbon technologies, 2010 • Carbon Trust, Biomass heating, A practical guide for potential users, 2009 
• Pollution Prevention and Control 
• SAP 2009, Appendix N

HEATPUMPS

• Building Regulations: Region 2, 4: Part L; Region 1: Technical Handbook Section 6 and Region 3: Technical Booklet F
• Efficient design of piled foundations for low-rise housing, Design guide – Arup, NHBC Foundation, 2010
• EST, Domestic Low and zero carbon technologies, 2010 
• EST, Domestic Ground Source Heat Pumps: Design and installation
• EST, Getting warmer: a field trial of heat pumps, 2010
• NHBC, Ground source heat pump systems: Benefits, drivers and barriers in residential developments (2007)
• SAP 2009
• The Heat Pump Centre 
• The UK Ground Source Heat Pump Association 

FUELCELLS

• Energy Savings Trust, Domestic Low and zero carbon technologies, 2010 
• UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UK HFCA) 



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Other chapter weblinks

Feed in Tariffs & Renewable heat Incentives  - always check latest updates at www.decc.gov.uk       

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