Large Family Home Achieves Passive House Standards with Panasonic Sustainable Heat Pump Solution
Hampshire. UK
2022
Aquarea air to water heat pump, Control, VRF, Residential, nanoe™ X
Outdoor units: 2 x 12kW Aquarea T-Cap Heat Pumps, 2 x VRF systems with PAW heat recovery
Indoor units: Mix of 60x60 cassettes, ducted and floor console units all with nanoe X technology
Control: Panasonic Smart Cloud control system
CER
Energy conscious John
Hazelton, CEO of CER Installations Ltd, recently completed a large, 654m2 bespoke designed self-build home in Hampshire. For this modern
5-bed property, John worked closely with the Panasonic team to ensure that his
new home provides year-round comfort plus reaches Passive House energy
efficient standards, with indoor air quality being a priority.
Challenge
Having run a successful HVAC installation company for some 45 years, John has worked on some
national projects for well-known retailers and pharmaceutical companies through
the UK and Ireland. With this wealth of experience, the goal for his own shared
family home with his wife’s parents, was to create a more sustainable,
well-insulated and low energy property with the highest specification indoor environment.
Solutions & Tech Applied
Energy conscious John Hazelton, CEO of CER Installations Ltd, recently completed a large, 654m2 bespoke designed self-build home in Hampshire. For this modern 5-bed property, John worked closely with the Panasonic team to ensure that his new home provides year-round comfort plus reaches Passive House energy efficient standards, with indoor air quality being a priority.
Having run a successful HVAC installation company
for some 45 years, John has worked on some national projects for well-known
retailers and pharmaceutical companies through the UK and Ireland. With this
wealth of experience, the goal for his own shared family home with his wife’s
parents, was to create a more sustainable, well-insulated and low energy
property with the highest specification indoor environment. The stunning
property that the build team designed and built is a modern home using SIP
Construction methods, ensuring air tightness to passive house standard, and
this, coupled with a Panasonic Aquarea air source heat pump and heat recovery
system, has created a sustainable, comfortable, and highly energy efficient home.
Panasonic’s Aquarea range is among the
technologies listed on the International Energy Agency (IEA) Blue Map, whose
goal is to reduce CO2 emissions to half the levels emitted in 2005,
by the year 2050.
John worked closely with the Panasonic technical team
to ensure the correct solution was specified to achieve maximum comfort, energy
efficiency and maintain good indoor air quality throughout. Two 12kW Panasonic
Aquarea T-Cap heat pumps with two VRF systems along with Panasonic PAW heat recovery systems provide heating, cooling and
ventilation throughout. The property has underfloor heating on the ground floor
and first floor landing and bathrooms, with a
mix of Panasonic 60x60 cassettes, ducted and floor console units all with nanoeTMX
technology as standard to ensure maximum comfort, with the ability to
inhibit pollutants, bringing natures balance to the indoor environment. To provide the
ultimate and easy to use controls, the whole system can be accessed via the
remote Panasonic Smart Cloud control system to ensure maximum access,
control, and efficiency.
Rachel Wales, Regional Sales and Account Manager for
Panasonic commented, “This is a great project, and the family is enjoying a
very comfortable home, with improved air quality. Much of the Panasonic air
conditioning ranges now come with nanoe™
X technology incorporated, which can help bring incredible benefits indoors so that hard surfaces, soft furnishings,
and the indoor environment can be a cleaner and more pleasant place to live.”
John Hazelton added, “Over the years we have worked with many
manufacturers but have found that Panasonic offers a good quality and superior
product range with high COP efficiencies, and for a good price. Most importantly, their customer service is
second to none which is one of the main reasons we work with them. It is
important that we know equipment is going to turn up on time, in the right
place and our team isn’t left standing around waiting for equipment.
Plus, as a PRO Partner, Panasonic provides us (CER) with a 7-year warranty,
which is great.”
Panasonic Aquarea T-Cap units are highly energy efficient with high COP
ratings of 4.85 and can operate in temperatures as low as -28oC. The Aquarea T-Cap
unit is a single system which can simply be connected to underfloor heating,
radiators, or fan coil units. The range boasts
high energy efficiency, is rated A+++ at 35ºC and A++ at 55ºC plus has a high
SCOP capacity. Furthermore, the impressive system can work under higher
pressure and reach a 65ºC water flow temperature for the ultimate high
performing unit, and they are very quiet when in operation.
“The Panasonic Aquarea T-Cap Air to Water Heat Pumps are very quiet compared to its competitors, aesthetically pleasing and
highly energy efficient” explained Oli Tew, Technical Air-to-Water Specialist
for Panasonic. “T-Cap stands for Total
Capacity and the Aquarea T-Cap units are ideal for maintaining heating capacity
even at very low temperatures. The T-Cap range is an ideal solution for this
project as it can also be connected to solar water heating panels and smart
controls in order to further increase efficiency by running off PV solar
panels, and minimise the impact on the
environment which is precisely what John and his family were looking for.”
John concludes, “What we've done in this property means we
have the benefit of being able to monitor and adjust the system to see how we
run it and achieve the best energy performance. Our driver is energy efficiency;
energy is going up in price – so far we have found that the whole house stays
at a very stable temperature – even in the hot summer months that we experienced
during 2022. Furthermore, we can easily connect and remotely track and monitor all
of our energy usage and running costs in real time via the Panasonic Smart
Cloud app, to see where we can save.”
For more information on Panasonic air source heat pumps,
please visit www.aircon.panasonic.eu.
Key Tech Features
Meeting Passive House Standards
Aquarea T-Cap has a COP ratings of 4.85