As sustainability, the environment and whole life costs are becoming increasingly important in today's construction industry, innovative and cost effective building solutions are becoming a realistic consideration on public and private contracts alike.
At Van Elle, we have combined our expertise and experience gained through 25 years of drilling & piling to offer our clients the most efficient and innovative solutions to heating & cooling their build.
Geothermal systems are amongst the most environmentally friendly known to man producing no localised emissions and so not contributing to air pollution or global warming. They are also extremely efficient. Using the earth's free and sustainable energy they typically operate at 400 efficiency meaning that for every unit of energy they use, four more are produced. The earth absorbs 47% of the sun's energy which amounts to 500 times more energy than is required by mankind each year, however, until now this resource has been vastly under exploited.
The geothermal services we offer include:
- Scheme proposals including building energy load assessments
- Borehole and pile designs
- Project risk assessments
- Thermally enhanced grout testing (conductivity testing)
- Loop purging and loop pressure testing
- Project management & scheduling between piling, geothermal loop and Smartfoot® installation
- On site commissioning of geothermal loop systems