Created with the input of industry developers, the Zeroth Energy System has been designed to be a viable solution to providing heating, hot water and, should you choose, cooling to an apartment building.

The system has many benefits, when compared to a traditional communal heating scheme, including:

• Up to a 50% reduction in plant room footprint
• Potential incorporation into an offsite manufacturing process, including pre-fabricated utility pods
• Reduces overheating in communal areas and peak heat losses by up to 90%
• Able to facilitate future connection to a heat network
• Flexibility in the system design allowing your choice of plant room technology

The Zeroth Energy System is an alternative solution to a traditional communal heating scheme, combining in-apartment heat pumps and a water based, low temperature network, or energy loop, to deliver HVAC services to each dwelling.

The system has designed with practicality and flexibility in mind, meaning benefits include:

• Up to a 50% reduction in plant room footprint
• Provision of heating, hot water and cooling services via a two-pipe system
• An internal network water temperature of 25C, as opposed to 60 - 80C, reducing overheating in communal areas and peak heat losses by up to 90%
• Designed to fit within the standard apartment service cupboard, with your choice of plant technology, hydronic emitters and controls

When applied to your project, the Zeroth Energy System can be beneficial to the building’s design. From a smaller plant room and reduced rise spaces, to your choice of heating or cooling emitter and apartment controls, this solution can help you to create the spaces you envisioned.

This solution can also:

• Help save energy and reduce the carbon of a comparative dwelling by 29% when compared to today’s gas approach
• Reduce summer overheating, where traditionally communal corridor temperatures could reach 30°C+ with traditional community heating schemes
• Allow the opportunity to move energy between dwellings and buildings (only possible with heat pump technology)
• Include the ability to integrate current and emerging technologies to reduce fossil consumption