What is a Greentec System

Our Greentec System supplies new homes with all their heating and hot water, 24 hours a day. It can also provide various cooling options for those hot summer days and nights. Our fully automated system filters and cleans the fresh air entering the property, removes old stale air and controls the home's humidity levels. All this can cost as little as £1 per square metre a year to run in an appropriately-insulated house and reduces the carbon footprint by as much as 70%.

All new homes fitted with a Greentec System have as standard a Heat Pump, Under Floor Heating and a Heat Recovery Ventilation system; the house itself should be as airtight as possible. The result is a greatly reduced carbon footprint compared to a conventional heating system. Here's how:

For every 1kW used to power the Heat Pump, it produces more than 4kW of heat. Compare that to the best modern condensing gas boilers, which run at around 90% efficiency - so for every 1kW they produce, only .9kW is usable. As an added bonus, the Heat Pump produces no local CO2 emissions. Oil- and LPG-fired boilers lag miles behind gas boilers in terms of efficiency.

Under Floor Heating needs lower-temperature hot water than a radiator-based system - a maximum of 40°C in the coldest weather, compared to the 65-70°C of radiators. That's great for Heat Pumps because the lower the temperature required, the more efficiently they run. And Under Floor Heating is invariably buried under a concrete screed, which itself acts as a huge heat store, further increasing efficiency.

Standard houses are fitted with trickle vents to let the house breathe; we do away with them in favour of mechanical ventilation - but rather than just dump the heat in the extract air, we recover it and feed it back into the incoming air via a heat exchanger, a no-cost operation. Doing this saves approximately 20% of a house's annual heating bill. And, as ever, there's a further bonus - feeding filtered air into a house confers great health benefits.

 

A typical new home fitted with a standard Greentec System

The Greentec System can be developed by adding extras from our range which will improve the living environment and further reduce your carbon footprint. These extras can be either fitted as the house is being built, or added later as a retro-fit, to further enhance the comfort factor in your home.

The Greentec System is provided in the following formats:-

1. a standard system fitted to all Greentec homes
      a) a ground source heat pump using either
           i)  ground loop
          ii) a geo-thermal bore hole
      b) underfloor heating system in all rooms
      c) a mechanical air ventilation system with heat recovery
      d) bespoke control system
2. a range of extras to further enhance your home

 

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