Energy Audit for St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol

7. Summary of Recommendations
This report has made numerous recommendations on improvements that can be carried out to
reduce energy and carbon emissions from the operation and use of this building.
These have been summarised here into three phases taking into consideration the payback, capital
investment and ease of carrying out each improvement. There is also logic in the phases of
improving the current arrangement so that decisions on more major elements can be based on
improved efficiencies rather than less than optimal situations. These recommendations and this
report should be presented and an action plan developed to implement as many of these actions as
possible.
In general the energy strategy for the church should be to install good controls to the heating and
low energy (LED) lighting alongside considering installing a PV system to the roofs.
The use of other renewable heat sources should be careful considered as to whether they are truly
more environmentally efficient than the very efficient use of mains gas.
Immediate / Short Term
Improvement Measures
Description Estimated Cost Estimated Saving To be actioned by
Install full controls to the £4,500 £2,500 per year
heating and hot water
system
Replace lamps within
existing lighting fittings
for low energy versions
SLS to advise SLS to advise
Arrange for the
uninsulated pipework
fittings in the boiler
room to be insulated
Replace the main heating
pump with a VSD pump
set
Clean out the heating
pipe within floor
trenches and line with
insulating foil.
Consider the installation
of a 15kWp solar PV
array on the south facing
roofs of the
nave/chancel
£600 £200/year and
improved resilience of
heating system
£1,500 £400/year
£1,500 £350/year and
improved comfort
£22,000 £2,000/year
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