photo credit: charlesfettinger The new Westcliffe Primary and Infant School in Scunthorpe is proud to be leading the way in energy-efficiency, with a variety of eco-friendly features such as underfloor heating aimed at keeping school kids cosy and bills low. The £5.5 million school was officially opened at the end of last month, and will [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: darren-johnson A recent report has shown that developers and self-builders are increasingly opting for underfloor heating, thanks to its great energy-efficiency and ability to add value to a property. The Underfloor Heating Market Report UK 2012 – 2016 Analysis study by AMA Research found that the heating systems are especially popular with self-builders, [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a video which gives us a good look at the work that goes into installing the right kind of underfloor heating for every home. In this video, from the Terra Therma YouTube channel, we see one of Terra Therma‘s technical experts installing an XPS overlay system across a load-bearing floor. As well as importing [...]
Continue Reading →The monk’s life of contemplation and worship is said to lead to wisdom – well that’s certainly the case when it comes to the energy-efficient choices of the 70 Cistercian monks of Portglenone, near Belfast. The Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey, nestling on the banks of the River Bann, was built in the 1960s and [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: grotos News emerged this week about the latest in innovative eco-homes – the conversion of a dilapidated Victorian water tower into a stylish and energy-efficient home, making the most of the latest in underfloor heating technology. The tower in Congleton was bought by architect Andy Critchlow for £100,000 in an auction, sight unseen, [...]
Continue Reading →There are new floor coverings being developed all the time for use with underfloor heating – and the rapid advance of technology means that the energy-saving qualities of underfloor heating are being enhanced all the time. One of the most recent noted uses of innovative floor coverings came earlier this month in Romford, Essex, when [...]
Continue Reading →The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported this week on the best ways to upgrade and improve older and more architecturally interesting properties – with underfloor heating being one of the best ways to make an older building cosy without ruining any of the original features. Although many of the properties built in the 1970s and 1980s [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: Redeo Australian engineers have been pushing for their country to invest more in one of the forms of renewable energy with the most potential – geothermal energy. Geothermal energy as a concept dates from the ancient world – unsurprisingly the Romans made much of it when settling in areas with hot springs. Then, [...]
Continue Reading →With the government keen to encourage more “eco-towns” and developments of eco-homes, it is time that many Britons began to assess the advantages of living in one of these more energy-efficient properties. Here’s a list of 10 reasons why the environmentally-conscious householder should consider moving to an eco-home: Lower Bills. Possibly the greatest advantage of [...]
Continue Reading →A boom in British sea power is likely this decade, according to the renewable energy industry body, Renewable UK. The organisation has recently said that it believes the sea-powered renewable energy sector will generate some 15,000 new jobs by 2021, as part of a £3.7 billion industry. With renewable energy one of the great energy [...]
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