Community Building Energy Audits

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Creating future proof Retrofit Plans for 25 community buildings across Aberdeenshire.

About the project

Aberdeenshire Council have contracted mwclubb Architectural Design to conduct Energy Audits and Retrofit Plans for Community Buildings across Aberdeenshire.

The first part of this project is to select 25 buildings that represent a fair distribution of different buildings, based on age, design, heating system, use pattern and location.

We will be selecting at least four community owned or operated buildings from each of the six council areas: Banff & Buchan, Buchan, Formartine, Garioch, Kincardine & Mearns and Marr. Unfortunately buildings in the Cairngorm National Park cannot be included in this project.

Each selected building will undergo a detailed survey by our team of architects and retrofit coordinators. We will build detailed energy models of each building that reflect their current and future usage patterns. We will then evaluate the options for improving these buildings to make them comfortable and ready for zero-emissions heating systems, like heat pumps.

Staged Retrofit Plans will be produced for each building, which will allow the building operators to plan the improvements over a number of years and source funding. These Retrofit Plans will be suitable for supporting applications to the CARES Fund from the Scottish Government.

The timeline for this work is very short, we need to select the buildings by the 20th January and complete the Retrofit Plans by 15th March 2023. The project is fully funded so there are no costs to the community.

We will be holding community engagement events in each of the six areas to explain more about the retrofit survey, retrofit plans and some of the possible solutions that might be proposed. But in the meantime...

We need your help!

There's no definitive list of community owned and operated buildings for Aberdeenshire. We have started to build one, but we don't want to miss any, so if you have a community building that would benefit from a retrofit plan, please provide information below.

For each building on the long list we need to know it's usage pattern, so if you're a building owner or operator and you can help with this information please provide it below.

The form will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Alternatively you can email us at community@mwclubb.co.uk

Email *

What is the name of your community building? *

What is the address of the building? *

What population is served by the building

0-200 homes

201-500 homes

500-1,000 homes

1000+ homes

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Your name or name of the building manager *

Contact email and/or phone number *

Are you the building owner/operator/committee member? *

Yes

Building use, aims and ambitions

The occupancy and usage patterns of community buildings have a huge impact on their energy consumption. We know that activities can range from seated meetings, to cooking events to physical exercise events, but all these have different requirements in temperature, ventilation and comfort, so we need to make sure that the plans we produce reflect the main usage patterns and have flexibility for change.

Please give us as much information as you can about the current usage pattern of your community building in the boxes below.

What type of activities take place?

General meetings

Aerobic Exercise classes

Low activity sports (eg bowls)

Dining events

Market stalls

Other:

How many people use the building for each type of event?

What type of heating system does the building have?

If the building was warmer and cheaper to run how would that change the usage pattern of the building?

Building Condition and planned improvements

Do you have any drawings of the building?

Yes

Maybe

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Have any parts of the building been previously insulated? If so, please state how and when?

Has the building already had an energy assessment or are there any existing plans for improvement?

Are there any known issues with the building that need attention?

Thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to complete this survey. If any other information comes to light please feel free to email us at community@mwclubb.co.uk or call us on 07710 279156

A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.

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