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6 MODERN BUILDING SERVICES JULY 2022 INDUSTRY NEWS The Altecnic Heat Network Design Guide The Heat Network Design Guide aims to ensure specifiers, consultants, and contractors achieve the designed system performance post build, and howmaximum energy savings fromHeat Interface Units (HIUs) can only be achieved if the system is designed, installed, and commissioned correctly. Giving context to the advice, and ensuring it is as accurate as possible, the guide begins with a review of the latest independent resources and best practices for heat network design. Details on HIU selection and sizing, as well as recommendations on piping layout and componentry, are also included in the Guide. www.altecnic.co.uk Face-to-face commercial product training is back at Baxi’s Commercial Training Academy Baxi Commercial Solutions is pleased to announce the return of face-to-face product training at itsWarwick Commercial Training Academy, with the first of the courses taking place this May. We bring together some of the best-known brands including Remeha, AndrewsWater Heaters, Potterton Commercial and Heatrae Sadia. Its popular, free product training courses are designed to help contractors and installers develop their knowledge of a range of commercial heating and hot water appliances within our Commercial Solutions portfolio. Courses include training on the Remeha Quinta Ace and Gas 120 Ace series, AndrewsWater Heaters ECOflo, COMBIflo and MAXXflo EVO product ranges, and the Potterton Commercial Sirius three and Paramount boiler series. For details of all courses and dates or to book a place, visit: www.remeha.co.uk/training www.andrewswaterheaters.co.uk/training www.pottertoncommercial.co.uk/training BEAMA releases tool to help heating installers explain the new requirement in the Building Regulations to their customers New regulations for existing homes mean that, from June 15th, 2022, heating installers will be required to install thermostatic room controls when replacing a boiler. The 2022 changes fall under Part L of the Building Regulations which covers energy conservation and is a key element of the Government’s progress toward reducing the UK’s carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050. The new requirement will match the current standards for new heating systems, and in most cases, this requirement will be met by adding thermostatic radiator valves (TRVs) to radiators. TRVs are a familiar and proven technology for installers and deliver cost-effective savings for householders. These should be added to all heated rooms except where the room thermostat is located, and there is no need to replace existing TRVs if these are fully working. To support this change, as industry expertswe have produced a short animationwhich is onYouTube to explain the change to consumers, and to highlight the benefits of thiswork being done.The animation is freely available for installers to share on their websites and social media so that their customers can be confident they are receiving a compliant system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHLOXtk_ubc www.beama.org.uk Schneider Electric and RIB back industry-leading Embodied Carbon Calculator technology Schneider Electric and RIB have partnered with Building Transparency, a non-profit organisation that has developed the Embodied Carbon Calculator. The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) houses a database of digital, third-party verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which can be used to perform sustainability benchmarking and assessments. The technology allows those in the industry to better measure and factor embodied carbon into Building InformationModelling (BIM) analysis. This is a free and open access tool targeted to reduce the impact of embodied carbon and make the AEC industry more efficient and sustainable. This will revolutionise how construction material producers, developers & contractors track, evaluate and reduce their project’s embodied carbon. The partnership seizes the latest evolution of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and sets the global standards for a more sustainable building and construction industry. www.se.com www.buildingtransparency.org/ec3-resources/ec3-faq