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Renewable Energy Strategies and Waste Management Plans

The need for Renewable Energy

Increasingly, designers of all buildings, whether single or multiple dwellings, commercial offices or public buildings, are seeking to generate some of their energy on-site through renewable techniques. For some, they are bound by legislation such as the Merton Rule, which has been adopted by Local Authorities nationwide and states that all large buildings or sets of dwellings must produce at least 10% of their energy from renewable sources. Others are obliged to do the same through Code for Sustainable Homes or BREEAM requirements. In the future, as fossil fuels become more and more scarce and expensive, micro-generation will have a large role to play in providing Britain's energy; especially come 2016 when all homes must be built zero-carbon. The Government has earmarked 2019 as the date by which non-domestic buildings must do the same.

What can Phlorum do?

Phlorum Limited can analyse all the issues impacting on energy consumption within your building, whether notional or existing, and calculate the best and most efficient method of producing renewable energy, based entirely on your needs. We carry out feasibility studies to ensure our advice is based on actual energy scenarios. Whether you wish to build a zero-carbon home, or self-generate a proportion of energy in your office, Phlorum Limited will help you choose the method that is most suitable for you, based on rigorous energy simulation assessment and expert knowledge.

There are various ways of generating renewable energy. Wind turbines, photovoltaic panels (PV), solar thermal, ground and air source heat pumps, biomass boilers, CHP, fuel cells; the options are widespread as to what method you should choose. However, the choice of methods should be circumstance specific, as no one technique will be suitable for every building. Issues such as the size and location of the building, occupational patterns, energy demand, design and construction will combine to determine which is the best energy source. For example, biomass boilers are frowned upon in city centres due to particulate emissions to the atmosphere, wind turbines work better at unobstructed altitude and PV panels need to be oriented correctly to capture enough light.

Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs)

The Site Waste Management Plans Regulations (2008) state that every construction project in England over an estimated value of £300,000 must create, implement and monitor a Site Waste Management Plan. It must be created before the project starts on site, and be maintained and updated throughout the construction process. Two credits are also available under the Code for Sustainable Homes for site waste management.

A Site Waste Management Plan prepared by Phlorum Limited will do the following:

  • identify the types of waste and their expected quantities that will arise from the work on-site;
  • formulate a management strategy to minimise such streams, and put procedures in place for sorting each waste, and recycling or reusing waste where possible, either on-site or off-site;
  • visit the site to ensure the plan is being properly implemented and monitor its success; and
  • analyse the plan at the end of the project, alongside the actual vs estimated quantities of waste produced.



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