Impacts of fixed-rate charges on heating and controls use in communal network social housing
Impacts of fixed-rate charges on heating and controls use in communal network social housing
Winter heating season behaviour in 1960s council tower block flats connected to a heat-network, with fixed-rate charging is presented.
Heating hours delivered to radiators varied between 95 hours (2% heating season) and 4345 (99%) with a mean of 2790 (63%). Over 50% of tenants stated their heating strategy as ‘Heating always on and control with TRVs’. Radiator temperature observations confirmed this behaviour. Of people who used timer control, total heating hours reduced with increased frequency of manual intervention.
Mean indoor temperatures up to 27.7oC were observed, implying many residents are adapted to higher indoor temperatures. This is due to current shared cost recovery model which encourages wasteful behaviour. Education on use of controls is key to transitioning residents to charging for actual heat use.
Adapted thermal comfort, heating behaviour, social housing, communal heating, heating controls
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Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Paine, Sam
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Paine, Sam, James, Patrick, Bahaj, Abubakr and Waggott, Andrew
(2019)
Impacts of fixed-rate charges on heating and controls use in communal network social housing.
In CIBSE Technical Symposium 2019.
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Abstract
Winter heating season behaviour in 1960s council tower block flats connected to a heat-network, with fixed-rate charging is presented.
Heating hours delivered to radiators varied between 95 hours (2% heating season) and 4345 (99%) with a mean of 2790 (63%). Over 50% of tenants stated their heating strategy as ‘Heating always on and control with TRVs’. Radiator temperature observations confirmed this behaviour. Of people who used timer control, total heating hours reduced with increased frequency of manual intervention.
Mean indoor temperatures up to 27.7oC were observed, implying many residents are adapted to higher indoor temperatures. This is due to current shared cost recovery model which encourages wasteful behaviour. Education on use of controls is key to transitioning residents to charging for actual heat use.
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 April 2019
Keywords:
Adapted thermal comfort, heating behaviour, social housing, communal heating, heating controls
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