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Proposed new building Gas Street

mikejee said:
Judging by the normal accuracy of developers' predictions as to the eventual results ande acheivements of their projects (ie new library), then the numbers probably came from a random numbers generator
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My thoughts exactly and most likely there will be no accountability! Then the residents will get the bill. Sounds like a project in NYC, Chicago or Boston!
 
Morturn said:
I love how the developers act like they are doing everyone a big favour when applying for planning permission. Was there a campaign set up to reject this on the grounds that they want to demolish some historic Canalside building?
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Exactly, but until there is some accountability nothing is going to change! In business when we finish particularly large ones (and we are paying) we conduct a post audit: were we over or under budget, did we get the results expected, in the t8me we expected. What went right, what went wrong. We were far from perfect but we got better each time. As project leaders our directive was to treat the companies money like it was our own.
 
Richard Dye said:
Nice idea, I would like to see the numbers how they get to “energy positive”
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In the daytime, when the occupants are at work and the only consumption is fridges, freezers and burglar alarms, and the sun is shining, yes there would be positive generation. When everyone comes home, heating, TV, cookers etc. on (remember no gas allowed in tower blocks after the Ronan Point incident) and the sun has gone, very much a negative figure can be expected, even if there were a way to conserve surplus daytime energy.
 
Richard Dye said:
Exactly, but until there is some accountability nothing is going to change! In business when we finish particularly large ones (and we are paying) we conduct a post audit: were we over or under budget, did we get the results expected, in the t8me we expected. What went right, what went wrong. We were far from perfect but we got better each time. As project leaders our directive was to treat the companies money like it was our own.
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So off down the pub then. :)
 
Lloyd said:
In the daytime, when the occupants are at work and the only consumption is fridges, freezers and burglar alarms, and the sun is shining, yes there would be positive generation. When everyone comes home, heating, TV, cookers etc. on (remember no gas allowed in tower blocks after the Ronan Point incident) and the sun has gone, very much a negative figure can be expected, even if there were a way to conserve surplus daytime energy.
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I hope they are building in very large storage batteries. As I recall there are lots of cloudy days there.
 
God daylight is enough to provide solar power, even through the winter my 12 panels have always supplied some, I have a storage battery too and it's 100% charged by mid morning on the sunny days we've had this week so I am upgrading to more capacity on Tuesday.
My electric bill is tiny, only spoiled by the fixed daily standing charge.
 
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