Steps to your A-Rated Home

Building Fabric:

• Improve standard of insulation beyond current building regulations
• Insulate facade internally
• Use Air-tight construction methods and practices
• Minimise thermal bridging in external fabric
• Improve window and door U-values
• Improve window orientation
• Build draught lobby

Building Services:

• Remove open fireplace, install wood pellet stove and balanced flue
• Use condensing boiler instead of standard
• Increase hot water cylinder insulation
• Insulate primary circuit pipe work
• Install solar water heating
• Install heat recovery ventilation
• Install ground source heat pumps
• Install Rainwater Harvesting

Please speak to one of our partners to discuss how these methods can be employed on your project resulting in a comfortable home with much reduced utility costs.

Meet our Building Services and Environmental Engineer experts

METEC Engineering are independent Building Services Consulting Engineers that offer a complete range of Energy and Environmental Services from Mechanical Engineering Services, Electrical Engineering Services to Sustainable and Low Energy Design. METEC expertise reaches out to all key markets and all sectors from Commercial, Health, Educational, Institutional, Industrial, Leisure to Residential. We have a sound understanding of the constraints and opportunities facing all marketplaces. This enables our team of Creative Engineers to focus on innovative designs, utilising their diverse knowledge within all sectors to devise the best possible solutions for all projects in a cost effective way.