The £1M sustainable refurbishment of the Energy Technology Centre is now underway.
New Park, working in conjunction with the Sustainable Energy Technology and Innovation Centre Ltd, have now formally commenced the main contract works.
The upgrade will utilise innovative materials and technologies to create an exemplar 'eco-efficient pilot building' which will both use and help to develop new renewable energy technologies. The overall low carbon refurbishment will deliver passive standard office accommodation within the building and will result in significant improvements to standards elsewhere in the building, in the laboratories and engineering test bays.
Within the overall refurbishment it is proposed to employ a range of innovative technologies including thermal management, wind and photovoltaic electricity supply, heat recovery from engineering test rigs and heating steam supplied from a novel multi-fuel burner.
The finished building will provide an excellent, low carbon, environment for the future testing of innovative renewable energy technologies.
This investment of £1M is partially funded by the INTERREG IVB 'REGAIN' Project (www.programme-regain.eu) which sees the Energy Technology Centre working in partnership with European Partners from Belgium, France, Italy and Wales sharing knowledge and the active skills transfer of sustainable building techniques.
