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Connecting Existing Buildings to District Heating Networks Technical Report 035317 14 DeCember 2016 Revision 00 Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Revision Description Issued by Date Checked 00 TeChniCal Report – Approved by GLA MD 14-DeC-2016 AY, SW This report has been prepared for the sole benefit, use and information of Greater London Authority for the purposes set out in the report or instruCtions Commissioning it. The liability of Buro Happold Limited in respeCt of the information Contained in the report will not extend to any third party. author Dr Mark Dowson date 14 Dec 2016 approved Alasdair Young signature date 14 Dec 2016 ConneCting Existing Buildings to DistriCt Heating Networks Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Page 3 Contents Executive Summary 9 1 Introduction 13 1.1 Context 13 1.2 BaCkground 13 1.3 ObjeCtives and outComes 14 1.4 University partners 15 2 Methodology 16 2.1 Deliverables 16 2.2 Work PaCkages 16 2.3 Report struCture 17 3 Building Typology Assessment (WP1A) 19 3.1 Overview 19 3.2 DomestiC building typology assessment 19 3.3 Non-domestiC building typology assessment 26 3.4 Summary 32 4 Building Typology Spatial Mapping (WP1B) 33 4.1 Overview 33 4.2 DomestiC building typology spatial mapping 33 4.3 Non-domestiC spatial mapping 36 5 Building Typology Retrofit Technical Requirements (WP2A) 41 5.1 Overview 41 5.2 Building stock review 41 5.3 Baseline typology CharaCteristiCs 44 5.4 Load modelling 47 5.5 DistriCt heating conneCtion strategies 49 5.6 DomestiC retrofit strategy 50 5.7 Non-domestiC retrofit strategy 54 5.8 Summary 55 6 Building Typology Retrofit Cost Modelling (WP2B) 56 6.1 Overview 56 6.2 Pipework design 56 6.3 Cost references 60 6.4 Cost summary 63 6.5 Observations 64 6.6 Centralised DHW storage 65 6.7 Summary 65 7 Cost Effectiveness & Retrofit Spatial Mapping (WP3A) 66 ConneCting Existing Buildings to DistriCt Heating Networks Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Page 5 7.1 Overview 66 7.2 PaybaCk model inputs 66 7.3 Baseline energy use 67 7.4 Cost effeCtiveness study 68 7.5 Observations 70 7.6 Spatial mapping of Cost effeCtiveness 70 7.7 Cost effeCtiveness spatial mapping summary 75 7.8 DisCussion 75 8 Pilot study (WP3B) 77 8.1 Overview 77 8.2 SeleCtion of pilot study areas 77 8.3 Data proCessing methodology 78 8.4 Pilot study mapping for Islington 80 8.5 Pilot study mapping for Enfield 82 8.6 Pilot study mapping for Sutton 84 8.7 Pilot study mapping for Camden 86 8.8 Summary 88 9 4G Optimum Level of Energy Efficiency Retrofit (WP4A) 89 9.1 Overview 89 9.2 Method 89 9.3 Load modelling at reduCed supply temperatures 89 9.4 Radiator sizing assessment 93 9.5 DomestiC energy effiCienCy assessment 95 9.6 Non-domestiC energy effiCienCy assessment 97 9.7 Capital Costing of domestiC energy effiCiency measures 99 9.8 Capital Costing of non-domestiC energy effiCiency measures 101 9.9 Cost effeCtiveness of 4th generation distriCt heating with energy effiCienCy measures 102 9.10 Cost effeCtiveness results 102 9.11 Summary 106 10 Conclusions 109 Appendix A – CNCA Replicability Study Overview 115 GeneriC typology assessment 115 RepliCability Method 117 Appendix B – DHW and secondary network design guidance Overview 121 ApproaChes for domestiC hot water design 121 ApproaChes for seCondary system design 122 ReCommendations for CirCuit design 124 Appendix C – Full page data tables 127 ConneCting Existing Buildings to DistriCt Heating Networks Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Page 6 Project Team Greater London Authority Simon Wyke Peter North Chris Grainger Cassie Sutherland Agnieszka Griffin Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance Gayle Prest Christie Baumel Bill Updike MiCah Lang Alex Charpentier BuroHappold Engineering Alasdair Young Mark Dowson Angeliki Gkogka Trevor Keeling Justin Etherington Kyriaki Alexiou Strathclyde University Joseph Clarke NiColas Kelly Jon Hand Andrew Cowie University College London FranCis Li ConneCting Existing Buildings to DistriCt Heating Networks Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Page 7 Glossary ACH Air Change per hour AHU Air handling unit BH BuroHappold BSRIA Building ServiCes ResearCh and Information AssoCiation Capex Capital expenditure CERT Carbon Emissions Reduction Target CIBSE Chartered Institute of Building ServiCes Engineers CIGA Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency CNCA Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change DEMaP DeCentralised Energy Master Planning programme DG Double glazing DH DistriCt heating DHN DistriCt heating network DHW DomestiC hot water ECO Energy Company Obligation EEC Energy EffiCienCy Commitment EPC Energy PerformanCe CertifiCate ESP-r Environmental Systems PerformanCe researCh EST Energy Saving Trust FCU Fan Coil unit FENSA Fenestration Self-Assessment SCheme GIS GeographiC information system GLA Greater London Authority HEED Homes Energy EffiCienCy Database HIU Heat interfaCe unit HVAC Heating, ventilation and air Conditioning LSOA Lower layer super output area LTHW Low temperature hot water MSOA Middle layer super output area ONS UK OffiCe of National StatistiCs OS OrdnanCe Survey rdSAP ReduCed Standard Assessment ProCedure SAP Standard Assessment ProCedure TRV ThermostatiC radiator valves TRY Test referenCe year VAT Value Added Tax VOA Valuation OffiCe AgenCy VRF Variable refrigerant flow WP Work PaCkage ConneCting Existing Buildings to DistriCt Heating Networks Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Page 8 Executive Summary Overview This Greater London Authority (GLA) projeCt has been funded by the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA); a collaboration of international cities committed to achieving aggressive long-term Carbon reduCtion goals, Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050. The study investigates the opportunity, teChniCal requirements and Cost effectiveness of Connecting existing non- communally heated buildings in London to district heating networks. It then goes on to investigate what further retrofit measures are required to buildings to enable heat networks to operate at supply temperatures of 70 °C and below, also termed fourth generation distriCt heating networks. This reduction in temperature enables the Cost- effective integration of renewable and secondary (environmental and waste) heat sourCes into heat networks in order to deCarbonise their heat supply. Typology assessment and spatial mapping The London building stoCk has been represented by 32 typologies, Covering houses, low rise flats, high rise flats, offiCes and retail buildings. The study Captures 92.5% of all properties in London. These properties Cover 95.4% of domestic properties (i.e. all buildings exCept those already with Communal heating, or those with details not reCorded in the property database) and 72.1% of all non-domestiC buildings, exCluding distriCt heating ‘anChor loads’, which are already suitable for ConneCtion to district heating networks. Due to the inherent diversity of non-domestiC buildings it was decided that the typologies in the study should cover offiCe and retail uses only. IndiCative ConneCtion strategies were developed for retrofitting the chosen typologies so that they could be ConneCted to distriCt heating networks. The typologies included houses, low-rise flats (purpose built and Converted) and high rise flats, as well as small and large offiCe and retail buildings on the high street. The Cost to ConneCt existing gas Centrally heated domestiC buildings was found to vary from £66/m2 to £87/m2 equating to between £4,600 and £6,800 per unit, based on the arChitectures assessed. For CommerCial buildings this varied from £15/m2 to £82/m2. The Cost to ConneCt existing eleCtriCally heated buildings was higher, ranging from £112/m2 to £141/m2 for domestiC buildings, equating to between £7,700 and £11,000 per unit. For commerCial buildings this varied from £30/m2 to £191/m2. By Comparison, the Cost to undertake an energy effiCienCy retrofit to a low efficienCy solid walled dwelling was estimated to be £106/m2 to £159/m2. This works would involve meeting Part L1B insulation standards for improved U-values, new windows and halving air infiltration on hard-to-treat dwellings. Going deeper, a retrofit with Passivhaus U-values, halved infiltration and triple glazing was found to be up to £354/m2. Cost effectiveness study The assessment of medium or high Cost effeCtiveness for conneCtion to distriCt heating was determined based upon whether a 30 or 15 year paybaCk, respectively, Could be achieved across a wide range of indicative heat retail priCes (£25/MWh to £115/MWh) compared to a counterfactual case (e.g. gas boiler or electric heating). This allowed the costs of retrofitting the various typologies to be compared against each other to determine their relative Cost effectiveness, helping to inform distriCt heating pre-feasibility studies around the Cost and opportunity for retrofitting existing buildings for Connection to loCal heat networks as part of a strategiC decarbonisation plan. ConneCting Existing Buildings to DistriCt Heating Networks Copyright © 1976 - 2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved. Page 9 The properties found to be the most Cost effeCtive in relation to ConneCting to district heating networks were low and medium effiCienCy eleCtriCally heated high-rise flats, low-rise flats and houses, as well as large offices which are electriCally heated. These types of buildings
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