Design

Buildings constructed using the Kingspan TEK Building System can be cheap to run from the viewpoint of heating bills because they can be so energy efficient.

You can use any conventional heating system but sizing and controls are important. Heating systems can be ‘down-sized’ considerably as heating demand can be very low or negligible. Controls are important so as to avoid overheating - a normal domestic heating regime could cause a building constructed with the Kingspan TEK Building System to overheat.

The Kingspan TEK Building System can also act as a stimulus to think outside the box with regards to heating systems. What heat is lost through the fabric of the building or through unintentional bulk air movement can be more than compensated for by incidental gains and the introduction of a combined ventilation and heating strategy e.g. the introduction of a small fan coil into a mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) unit or the use of small wood burning stove in tandem with a standard MVHR system.