Apteco is based in a Grade II Listed 18th century building in the centre of Warwick, UK. The building as it stands today, is far from what we first found. We refurbished the building in 2009 ahead of moving into it and, as you’d imagine, it wasn’t a quick process (not least because of a fraudster contractor, but that’s a different story for another day), and we had a lot of decisions to make. One of the many topics we had to tackle was our energy usage.
After discussions about the building approach, we obtained planning permission and listed building consent to install an air-source heat pump heating and cooling system. us to modify cyprus mobile number the building to install pipework and ceiling units to deliver the heating and cooling. We balanced this intrusive work on the listed building with re-establishment of decorative ceiling covings, complete redecoration and so on to improve the standard of the entire building.
We installed a Mitsubishi P650 air source heat pump in the courtyard and indoor units appropriately sized for each room. The Mitsubishi system is clever enough to allow heating and cooling in different rooms concurrently, but we installed a smaller, separate system for our server room so we don’t have to run the main heat pump 24/7. This saves energy and reduces noise for our neighbours. The Mitsubishi heat pump is actually two smaller heat pumps working together, but in total it is rated at maximum 21.5kW electrical energy input to generate a maximum of 82.5kW heat output. That means for every unit of electrical energy we put in, we get 3.8 units of heat! The electrical energy we use for the heat pump is 100% green. We buy ours from Ecotricity who generate a proportion of the energy they sell from their own windmills and take inputs from other 100% green renewable sources.