ESOS Phase 3 reporting

Historic Buildings across Scotland

 

 Pip Lorimer

Measuring energy consumption and identifying opportunities for energy reduction.

Client: Confidential

 

 

 

 

 

a large, historic stone mansion with a symmetrical facade, set against a green hill and blue sky, featuring a long driveway and manicured lawns

 

The Brief

TCL completed ESOS stage 3 reporting on a range of historic buildings around Scotland. Some parts of these buildings dated back to the 5th Century and varied in age, size & use. TCL undertook 13 site visits for the client, producing energy audit reports and recommendations following the ESOS legal guidance.

 

 

Areas

Building decarbonisation in the UK

 

Opportunites

  • Improve energy management. This includes opportunities to improve; recording data, monitoring energy consumption data, & storage of data.
  • Reduce energy use and carbon emissions, whilst maintaining historic characteristics of the buildings.
  • Maintaining land management.
  • Improving strategies for maintaining humidity.
  • Implementation of low-carbon heating technologies as well as draft proofing & insulation. It was important that these actions would be in-keeping with the age and architecture of the building.  
  • Transport could be replaced with electric alternatives.
  • Possible installation of solar PV and/or wind turbines on some sites.

Challenges

  • The organisation is large so that meant sorting & handling a lot of data.
  • Implementing new data management systems along the way to improve efficiency.
  • Client recovering from impacts of COVID-19.
  • The buildings audited were listed and historic which needed to be considered throughout all recommendations.

 

 

Outcomes

 

There are a number of outcomes of this project so far.

Firstly, TCL carried out the ESOS assessment for the client up to the legal requirement for the whole organisation. Along with this, the client has an improved data management systems and a great understanding of the importance of data management. The site visits from this project resulted in recommendations, across all sites, for low-carbon improvements that wouldn't taint the historic nature of the buildings. Some of these improvements look to reduce energy usage across the sites which means that the client can transfer that spending into restoration and historic projects instead.

 

 

 

 

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