Who we work with
Housing Associations

eco-eclipseThe eco-eclipse offers housing associations a unique opportunity to become more efficient, save money on maintenance and lower fuel bills for tenants.

Not only does it help housing associations reduce their annual costs but it will also reduce staff workload. In a time of cutbacks and cost cutting – here is a chance to reduce expenditure and create long term efficiency.

Specifically the eco-eclipse will help you by:

  • Reducing maintenance administration and assist you in dealing with tenants complaints
  • Providing readily accessible information about the performance of the heating systems including fault recognition - all of which reduces the number and cost of emergency calls outs and adds to efficiency and reduces your workload.
  • Efficient retrofit installation of the system using wireless sensors into existing buildings, where the cost should be recovered in 12 -15 months for blocks of flats of 30 flats or more.
  • Reducing carbon emissions and helping you to meet your increasing obligations to do so
  • Offering tenants an undeniable way of saving rent / service charges by saving energy on their individual heating bills, which helps you meet your obligations to providing them with good service and economical heating.
  • Providing thermal disinfection and monitor cold water temperatures to assist in the management of the risk of legionnaire’s disease
  • Extending the life of your boilers by eliminating dry cycling and by providing load dependent sequencing and lead boiler rotation.

If you would like to find out more about how this could work for your housing association or would be interested in finding out how it has saved money for others like Notting Hill Housing and the London Borough of Camden, please Contact Us

Who else has it worked for?

Case history – London Borough of Camden

E&ES is pleased of be an authorised supplier to the London Borough of Camden, who deals with the same problems as you. We are currently involved in a rolling programme to install the eco-eclipse boiler management system into over 130 blocks of multi-storey residential flats of which eight are Care Homes/Sheltered Housing.

As a result of this relationship the eco-eclipse was selected as the facilitator in a randomised controlled trial of boiler management systems in the project Social Housing in Camden: An Assessment of Health, Environmental and Economic Outcomes with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This was an integral part of an important study, which investigated the prevention of scalds (a leading cause of injury in childhood), while not increasing the risk of Legionnaire’s disease; and at the same time reducing CO2 emissions and increasing cost savings.

The first part of the programme was to establish standards against which the parameters can be judged, ranging from excessively hot (scalding) to cool (Legionella growth). At the same time CO2 emissions are to be reduced and cost savings made. The cost savings were calculated by running “day on, day off’ monitored tests at 11 of the Borough’s residential blocks of flats including sheltered housing. All of these blocks have central boiler houses, which provide district heating. During these tests, the boilers fired for 1,304 hours in active mode (with the eco-eclipse in control of the heating system) and 1,908 hours in bypass mode when the eco-eclipse was not managing the systems. The result of these tests was an overall saving of 31.6%.

"At the London Borough of Camden we are committed to providing the best possible service to those living in the housing we provide, while also reducing the environmental impact of our activities. “Our decision to install the eco-eclipse has saved us well over £1million in fuel since the programme started, and has helped us to understand and manage our energy requirements, creating a safer, more comfortable living environment for our tenants."

Mike Hollister, Housing Manager, London Borough of Camden