Centenary Quay Monitoring project

Centenary Quay is an on-going development of 1,620 new homes to be built in phases and completed in 2022.

6 February 2017

Key facts

Funding Body/Client: Technology Strategy Board
Project Partners: UCL Energy Institute and Crest Nicholson
Total Project Value: N/A
UCL/IEDE Project Value Share: £80.000
Duration: 2012-2014
Status: Active

Phase 1 comprises 168 homes of which 3 are being studied in detail. The homes in the development are designed to meet Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3. The homes are constructed of high efficiency brick clad load bearing masonry with timber truss roofs. U- values for the walls, floors and roof range from 0.15-0.18W/m2.K.

The site is served by a site wide gas CHP district heating system with back-up gas boilers. Heat is supplied to each residential unit through a Heat Interface Unit. Each dwelling provides Mechanical Ventilation with openable windows for natural ventilation.

People

PI: Robert Lowe

Co-I: Hector Altamirano

Output

The study is being carried out by the developer, Crest Nicholson, with support from independent evaluators from The Energy Institute at UCL and Bartlett school of Graduate Studies. Fabric performance studies, such as thermography and co-heating, are to be performed whilst an in depth in-use study is currently going ahead to monitor sub-metered energy consumption and internal comfort within the 3 houses. Furthermore a design review will be undertaken along with a survey questionnaire to all 168 occupied homes on phase 1 and a review of home demonstration techniques and customer guidance. The study has only recently begun and therefore initial findings are yet to be established.

Impact

The project aims to provide information and encourage knowledge sharing and networking between all those involved and interested in Building Performance Evaluation and to encourage more people to look at the benefits of BPE.

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