Cley Marshes Visitors Centre, Norfolk

Project:

Cley Marshes Visitors Centre, Norfolk

Heat pump installed:

NIBE FIGHTER 1240 – 12 kW, single phase ground source heat pump

The new Cley Marshes Visitors Centre, has a generous floor space to include a shop, café, observation and interpretation area. The design of the building is based on the use of natural, sustainable materials and incorporates renewable energy sources including the Nibe Fighter 1240 – 12kw, solar power and a wind turbine.

The NIBE Energy Systems geothermal unit harnesses the rain and solar generated energy stored in the ground. The installation incorporates around 400 metres of looped plastic tubing buried roughly 20 centimetres below the frost line under the open ground to the front of the Visitors Centre. The 12kw capacity heat-exchanging pump extracts the absorbed heat from the ground and converts it into energy to heat both the building itself and the hot water required in it. Since the highest yield from surface collection is received from soil with a high water content, the wetlands site at Cley Marshes proves ideal.