Description

Energy consultancy for the LILAC housing cooperative in Leeds, UK, a 20-home development built with the ModCell prefabricated timber system with straw insulation.

The energy consultancy included a comparative study, energy strategy and outline design of thermal and electrical services, including a dynamic simulation study of the buildings using DesignBuilder-EnergyPlus to determine heating loads and summer comfort. The technologies studied included gas boilers, solar thermal, photovoltaic, geothermal, biomass and a hybrid PV-solar thermal-heat pump system.