Low-carbon heating and cooling

Shorts Environmental, LZC, low carbon

Shorts Environmental, which specialises in low-carbon building services, offers a complete energy-saving and sustainable package for heating and cooling plant to serve HVAC systems in all types of property — industrial, commercial and residential. The company’s services include the design, supply, installation commissioning and after-sales maintenance support service.

Services include application advice and selection of the appropriate specialist equipment (heat pump/biomass/ chiller) for a project, direct assistance with integration of its products with other services, running-cost calculations, life-cycle cost evaluation and investment analysis. The service can also include carbon-footprint evaluation and TEWI calculations.

For existing heating and cooling plant, Shorts can offer practical assistance, commissioning, troubleshooting, spare-part identification and fully comprehensive maintenance.

With its extensive range of absorption heat pumps and chillers fired by natural gas, Shorts can provide specialist assistance with heating and cooling buildings effectively without using HFC refrigerants.

Gas-fired heat pumps can product hot water for heating with an efficiency of over 140%. The product range includes air-source, ground-source and water-source models based around a 35 kW module. Up to six modules can be linked.

The company is ISO9001 and ISO14001 certificated.

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