Services provided by low energy design
low energy design provides the following services. Please click on the link for further details:
- dynamic thermal simulation
- bulk air flow simulation
- daylight analysis
- solar shading analysis
- part L & F compliance advice
- energy performance certificates
energy performance certificates
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC's) are required for any non-domestic building when it is sold, rented out and constructed. Please follow thislinkto the goverments web site.
We are able to provide energy performance certificates for any non-domestic building within the UK. We have engineers accredited for Level 3, Level 4 and Level 5 using thermal simulation. Our engineers are accredited through CIBSE Low Carbon Energy Assessors - one of the Uk's leading and most reputable accreditation agency.
In accordance with goverment guidelines, we do not use data collectors; each assessor will carry out a survey of the building. Fully dimensioned building plans will be required - we can organise this using third party providers if none are currently available (for very small property we can include to carry out our own building measure). The greater the level of detail provided and/or obtained from site, then the more accurate and representative the EPC result.
domestic
Domestic EPC's are required for homes being sold, rented, constructed or refurbished. Please follow thislinkto the goverments web site.
We are able to provide energy performance certificates for new-build or refurbished properties only. Our engineers are accredited through STROMA. As the properties are either being constructed or refurbished, then building plans are usually available from the architect or surveyor. The production of domestic EPC's will require the engineer to visit the property to ensure that the details used in the calcualtion are in accordance with the "as-built" condition.
low energy design is a division of ndesign consulting engineers and was set up early 2009 to concentrate on building simulation. ndesign consulting engineers has been operating since Apirl 2005 and continues to provide a full building services consultancy with emphasis on sustainable and low energy designs. Please follow thislinkfor more information.
Our
offices are located in the Newhaven Enterprise Centre in Newhaven, East
Sussex. The centre was opened in Septermber 2007 and provides modern
comfortable facilities. Newhaven is just east of Brighton and has a
local train service to London Victoria and a ferry port with regular
sailing to Dieppe and Le Harve.
From this location we are convirntnaly located for London and the South-east region of the UK. As the majority of the building simulation work is desk based, we work on projects across the whole of the UK and overseas.
The software used for building simulation is the INTERGRATE ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS <VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT> package. Please follow thislinkfor more information direct from IES. The IES software allows integration with a number of commercial drawing packages. We have been working with an architectural practice on the integration of ARCHICAD drawings into the IES suite. Intergration allows the building form to be directly translated from the drawing software into the building simulation software, thus saving time and resources and allowing a more accurate representation of the building.
Our engineers are fully trained and accredited in the IES software. They also hold a range of professional qualifications in Building Services Engineering as well as proessional membership of the CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERS (CIBSE), registered LOW CARBON CONSULTANTS and ENERGY ASSESSORS.
We are able to provide the building simulation output files in either reports or in raw data for use in your own documents and reports.