Continuing Professional Development

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With over 70 years of experience in the HVAC industry, our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) presentations will help you collect accredited hours while giving useful, relevant, and up-to-date information on how to improve how you specify the systems within your buildings.

Our CPDs are designed to help building professionals understand different HVAC technologies, from project application to potential routes to compliance. All our presenters are trained by GDHV, and have extensive experience within the HVAC industry to better understand your requirements.

Our CPDs presentations and courses can be delivered at your offices or online, via Microsoft Teams.

How smart can electric heating be?

This presentation demonstrates electric heating product demand in relation to environmental policy changes affecting our industry. Housing developers, energy and social housing professionals will gain a valuable insight into understanding considerations that should be made when heating buildings.

Finding the path to Part L compliance

This presentation explores some of the potential routes housing developers can take to achieve 2013 Part L compliance with electric heating. It is aimed at professionals looking to integrate electric heating into domestic dwellings or those looking to increase their knowledge of electric heating systems.

Ground source heat pump collectors; evaluating the options

This short CPD course covers the different GSHP collector options available on the market, providing some rules of thumb used within the industry and guidance on where to go when more detailed analysis is required.

Introduction to heat pump technology

This CPD is suitable for anyone who needs an introduction to heat pump technology, introducing the main benefits for new build and refurbishment projects. This CPD is aimed at architects, building service engineers and professionals needing an introduction to heat pump technology.

How do I know what capacity fan coil I need?

20 Mar 2020

Working out what capacity fan coil unit you need requires a lot of factors to be taken into consideration from the outset of a project, including solar gains. These include building orientation, geographical location, envelope construction materials and infiltration alongside internal gains such as lighting, equipment and occupancy. These will have to be considered with any potential plans to install solar shading, as they all have an impact on the predicted performance of a building.

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How to correctly size an ambient loop heat network using diversity factors

28 Oct 2021

As their name suggests, ambient loops operate at significantly lower temperatures than traditional communal high temperature heating systems. This means that a different approach is required when sizing the ambient loop distribution system. Calculation of such systems follows a procedure where diversity is used to determine the design flowrate for a development. It also determines the sizing of pipework and circulation pumps for an ambient communal network solution such as the Zeroth Energy System. The in-apartment flowrates required for the selected size of the Zeroth Heat Pumps can then be calculated.

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