Planning, building and the environment

Boilers

Having heating and hot water in your building can amount to half of all your energy costs.

The efficiency of a boiler also has a significant impact on the overall energy efficiency of a building with more than 50 per cent of the total energy consumption and CO2 emissions for buildings coming from heating and hot water use.

We have worked with the heating and hot water industry to provide basic advice about the energy efficiency of your heating and hot water systems.

Our checklist for businesses provides a record of the main appliances in the system. As the efficiency of appliances varies considerably depending on age and how they are maintained, a simple set of questions about the system controls and boilers gives an indication of whether further expert advice on the heating and hot water systems improvement would be beneficial.

When an engineer visits your building to service or maintain your heating system, they can use the checklist to tell you whether your system could be more efficient. The checklist also shows you how much you could save if you upgraded your system.

The checklists have been developed in conjunction with ICOM energy association, HVCA, OFTEC, CIBSE and the Carbon Trust.

Ask your engineer to complete a checklist when your heating system is serviced and find out how energy efficient your system is.

We have also published a guide for businesses to reduce the energy usage and carbon emissions from heating and hot water system.

For further advice call the Carbon Trust on 0800 085 2005 or visit the Carbon Trust website (external link).

To see what the recommended checklist looks like, please see the download below.

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