Rydon works to regenerate the ‘Green Man Lane’ estate in the London

A major landlord with some 50,000 homes worth some £3 billion in its portfolio has made energy efficiency part of a regeneration programme driven by its residents in Great Britain. A2Dominion and Rydon is to demolish a total of 464 homes to provide 706 new ones which are connected to an energy efficient heat and power system.

Rydon, a developer and contractor, and A2Dominion, a landlord, is working to regenerate the ‘Green Man Lane’ estate in the London Borough of Ealing. The £136 million project is being delivered in a 50:50 joint venture partnership.  The existing local authority housing estate, comprising of 464 flats, is being demolished to make way for 706 new homes.  The scheme will provide 305 homes that will be developed and marketed for the open market in a joint venture between REAL (Rydon’s regeneration brand) and A2Dominion Enterprises. A further 338 homes are dedicated for affordable rent and another 63 are shared ownership homes for A2Dominion.  The masterplan has been designed by Conran & Partners, Sir Terence Conran’s architecture and design practice, to transform the estate into an attractive, safe and sustainable community where people are proud to live.  Alfagy, an efficient energy provider, delivered a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit to the regeneration project to provide efficient energy to the estate.

A community heating system utilising combined heat and power technology will provide residents with low-carbon, cost-effective heating and electricity. Environmental performance will be further supplemented by the use of solar photovoltaic panels. Combined with the adoption of low energy design principles, a cumulative CO2 saving of 57% will be achieved. This exceeds the 44% which is required to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4.  Key to CO2 savings were the installation of Alfagy’s CHP plant delivering 334 kWe of power and 485 kWt of heat.  Residents have been fully involved in the design development and a number of key changes have been made to the scheme on their advice.  The CHP is now ready to provide cheap heat and power for the coming winter.

Alfagy’s chairman, Peter Kindt, comments: “We were pleased to receive the residents informed decision to choose our CHP.  After insulation, Alfagy’s CHP is the fastest way of reducing CO2 emissions and cutting fuel costs.”

The Alfagy CHP unit emits less of the undesirable greenhouse gasses, nitrogen oxides or NOx, than other plants and is used mostly in residential and urban areas such as London.  Alfagy is a leading supplier of ultra-low NOx CHP units that are gaining popularity as efforts to decrease cities’ pollution mount.