Encraft carried out detailed carbon emissions analysis and building regulations compliance checks for a 20 office development in Buckinghamshire. We modelled the building design using approved software, and use this to optimise the energy performance of the final design.

Our staff worked as members of the design and build team for the project throughout the design cycle, carrying out preliminary calculations as the design developed to show that the emissions would fall within acceptable limits, and subsequently liaising with the architects, M&E contractors and developer as the design reached the detailed stage to ensure that all the information required for compliance was secured and certified.

GreenerLiving Homes

We developed a range of transferable energy modules for a standard eco-house design marketed by GreenerLiving Homes. This enabled customers to choose from traditional through to zero carbon energy system options when buying their house design. In each case our analyses enabled the developer to provide customers with indicative estimates of the carbon and financial benefits of different choices they could make at the design stage.

In addition to specifying and costing optional energy system components, such as heat pumps, solar systems and micro generation, we also analysed the passive energy performance of the base design, modelling the effects of solar gain through different seasons and looking at ways to manage this using thermal mass and ventilation.