As part of their sustainability planning, and IT company that has numerous different offices around the world, has started to use solar thermal as an energy source. This IT company is the only the latest company to begin using this as a form of sustainability planning and it is thought that solar thermal will be used at the company’s new offices which have been built in Dublin. The building in question is situated on the EastPoint Business Park, and ideal location in Dublin. The construction has already managed to earn the LEED Platinum rating for the efficiency of the building.

As part of the building’s sustainability features, there are cutting edge solar thermal systems installed onto the roof. The system will be used to heat up all of the domestic use water for the building’s occupants, which has been estimated to be around 2,300 litres each day. This means that the company can save money on the fuel bills that would be required when heating this much water, bt it will also greatly improve the company’s sustainability.

Kingspan Solar’s engineers were involved in the installation of the equipment and the engineers for the company have used specialised T*SOL software which gave them the capabilities to work out the energy yield for the building. In this case the energy yield for the building in Dublin is 9.83 MWH/year which means that the multi-national IT company could expect and annual natural gas saving of around 1,270.8㎥. There has also been a green Biosolar roof in order to improve the solar output of the solar equipment.

Kingspan also worked on a number of different aspects of the build and there was a focus on making sure that the building met all of the relevant energy requirements in order to be considered for the LEED and the BREEAM construction scheme.