Thames House (82flats plus commercial units) – Energy consultancy – Major Residential

Syntegra Consulting have been appointment as energy consultants, BRREAM Assessors and Code for Sustainable Home Assessors on the Thames House project- Dalston, London, E8. The project involves the development of the site comprising a part 9 and 10 storey building, along with a 3 storey block to provide 82 residential units and some B1 business floorspace at ground floor level, in addition to a basement car park and single story cafe structure located on the western side of the site.

In terms of the Phase 1 planning stage (82 flats and 1 commercial unit space) Syntegra will be involved in offering a number of services, namely:

• 82 Code for sustainable homes pre-assessments based on proposed scheme. For the residential proportion of the development scheme. Includes CSH site registration.
• SAP assessment & Part L compliance checks based on proposed scheme U-values and other services based assumptions to achieve Code 3/4 for the residential units (social and private). A series of SAP assessments will need to be run to assist in the evaluation overview justifying building regs compliance (e.g. DER over TER improvement required) against at least 2 energy strategy design options.
• SBEM assessment & Part L compliance checks based on proposed scheme U-values and other services based assumptions for the commercial units space
• Sustainability and Energy Statement demonstrating that the applications include the consideration of all renewable energy technology / energy efficient measures, details what is proposed and, where these are not proposed and where these are not proposed, why these have been discounted as inappropriate / unfeasible.
• Justification of the use of onsite renewable energy generation of up to 20% subject in accordance to Local Authority UDP requirement & London Plan 2011.
• Justification of the use of onsite renewable energy generation to reduce the carbon emissions by 20% against the CIBSE standard case subject in accordance to LA planning policy and London Plan 2011.
• BREEAM pre-assessment

In terms of the Phase 2 planning stage (82 flats and 1 commercial unit space) Syntegra will be involved in offering the following services:

1. 82Full code for sustainable homes level assessments
2. 82 residential unit design SAP assessments, Building Reg Part L compliance report, PEAs
3. 82 residential unit as-built SAP assessment & completion EPCS
4. Commercial unit design SBEM assessments, Building Reg Part L compliance report
5. Commercial unit as-built SBEM assessment & completion EPCS
6. Category SUR1 & 2 – Water engineer specialist report  for Code for Sustainable Homes
7. Ecology ECO1-4 – Ecology report for Code for Sustainable Homes
8. WAS 2 – Consultancy to produce a Code compliant SWMP for Code for Sustainable Homes
9. MAN  1 – Code compliant Home User guide for Code for Sustainable Homes