Selbourne Square and Lindley Road
Implementation & use |
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| Management | Guinness Trust, TLCP |
| Installation | Rayotec |
Technical specification |
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| Technology | 15 x 2m of Vacuum Solar Collectors |
| Cylinder | 17x 170 litres unvented twin coil |
| Mounting system | Sloping roof metal frame |
The story
The Guiness Trust Group has been providing good quality,
affordable homes for over 100 years. Currently the Group provides
accommodation for more than 60 000 people in over 25 000 homes
across the country. It is one of the largest housing associations
in England.
The Guiness Trust decided to utilize solar heating due to its low initial
capital costs ease of installation, minimal maintenance and high levels
of CO2 savings.
Efficient vaccum solar collectors were chosen because they were
compact, attractive and had high level performance even on cold winter
days! Each apartment or house had a solar system on its roof,
connected to a twin coil solar cylinder.