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The Wyong milk factory

The milk factory is a heritage listed property that is being converted to a retail park that will accommodate a host of different retailers.

Great care has been taken to maintain the integrity of the old buildings with the chosen materials used in the  restoration.

With this in mind the owners also wanted to utilise modern technology to harness the sun to reduce the running costs of the site as well as being a carbon neutral market.

Urban energy was given a brief from the owners on what their requirements were and what objectives needed to be meet, So with this in mind Urban Energy designed a system that is a Australian first.

We have installed 8 x 30tube solar collectors on a the main building integrating into a show piece of the entrance. Coupled to three Latento Solar tanks we create thermal mass which maximizes our solar contribution. As well as the ability to maintain 100% solar for our hot water use we have installed a chillii® ISC10 adsorption chiller to capture the excess thermal energy to be run through a fan coil  to run the air conditioning for the coffee shop.With the introduction of this system the savings of the sites carbon footprint has been reduced by 7,792 Kg/ Co2 or the equivalent to planting 1,920 trees