Community Buildings Hub: Intermediate

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These resources are the next step in improving your community building’s energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.

They have been written to be accessible to a wide range of audiences, but we recommend starting with our Foundations section if you haven’t already.

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Building Interventions

This guide gives an overview of interventions you can consider to increase the energy efficiency of your building and decrease your energy costs.

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Calculating Carbon

This guide will show you how to calculate your buildings energy use and carbon emissions.

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Obtaining Quotes

You’ve worked out energy and carbon, and you’ve decided what you want to do to your building. Now it’s time to get prices.

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LED Lighting

Lighting has changed dramatically in recent decades. This guide will provide guidance for energy use of different lighting types, and how installing LED lighting and PIR detectors can reduce energy bills.

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DIY Energy Survey

This guide is intended as a companion to Centre for Sustainable Energy’s community building survey to help you create an energy survey for your building.

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Ventilation

Buildings need to be ventilated if they are to be healthy and usable spaces. Keeping ventilation in mind is especially important when making changes to help with energy efficiency.

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Moisture in Buildings

A damp building will cost you more to run as well as being a less pleasant place for the community to be.

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Solar Arrays

This guide will help you work out what size solar array will work best for your building.

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