ENERGY


Helping Dundee’s aging apartments save energy


Giacomini UK has recently assisted with a government initiative helping low income areas across Dundee create energy saving solutions, contributing to the city’s goal of meeting the Scottish Housing Quality Standards Target for 2015.


programme. The focus of the project was the refurbishment of the city’s Hill Town development that includes a new state of the art communal heating scheme. The development consisted of four


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multi-story properties, each containing 84 apartments. Giacomini were selected to supply 336 of its Heat Interface Units across all four apartment blocks. Speaking about the installation, Martin


Hey, from McGill said: “The aim of the scheme was to resolve the problems previously reported with the properties,


he company worked closely with McGill, a specialist building services contractor selected by Dundee City Council to oversee its community energy saving


including insufficient hot water on the higher floors and provide an accurate and fair fuel billing system that reflected the usage of the individual customer.” “It is estimated that the installation of Giacomini’s HIUs will help cut tenant’s energy bills by up to £300 per year, reducing the carbon footprint of the blocks and increasing the level of comfort within the apartments.


Giacomini’s Matt Lowe explained: “Heat interface units (HIU) take the place of traditional boilers providing an efficient and realistic solution to cutting carbon emissions and fuel bills, whilst providing a safe and easy way to maintain closed circuit wet heating and hot water systems.” The new development’s HIU’s are


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powered from a central source which distributes hot water to each individual apartment within the four blocks, the units which have an integral heat exchanger and energy meter are connected to a pre- payment system, cutting wasted energy and ensuring tenants only pay for what they use. “We’re pleased with how the


installation process went and ensured that tenant disruption was kept to a minimum. Giacomini is now moving on to a similar development in the Lochee area of Dundee,” added Matt. For more information on Giacomini


UK Ltd, visit www.giacomini.co.uk or call 01454 311012.


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