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Press Cuttings - Construction Magazine, Apr 05 Sunwarm Solar Hot Water Heating and Ventilation System Saves Solar CourtSolar Court is a small development in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, Scotland comprising of 12 bungalow type dwellings. Originally designed in the early 1970s. primarily for occupation by elderly resident, due to the age and condition of the existing installations they required all redundant solar water heating collectors to be replaced. Funding was identified by the Local Authority (South Lanarkshire Council) within its Housing Investment Programme and to initiate a retrofit solution they turned to Nuaire and its solar hot water/heating and ventilation system called Sunwarm. Nine of the properties owned by the Council originally had 20 square metres of redundant solar water heating collectors mounted on the sloping southerly roofs. Their presence on the roof of these single storey semi-detached. one bedroomed homes was causing physical damage and illustrated visible signs of decay. After hearing about the Sunwarm System from their Nuaire representative, South Lanarkshire Council invited the technical team up to Scotland to assess the suitability of an installation. After examining the properties and working out the estimated return on investment, it was established that this technology would be ideally suited to the project. [ Back to Index ] |