Heat networks: Code of Practice for the UK (CP1)

Phil Jones, Paul Woods and Martin Crane

• Publisher: The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781912034796
• eBook ISBN: 9781912034802
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Construction & Architectural Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This new edition of Heat networks: Code of Practice for the UK is a very significant update to the 2015 version.The previous edition of CP1 (2015) has been highly successful in establishing minimum standards to improve the quality of district heating projects from concept through to operation. CP1 has also begun to have a strong influence on the procurement of heat networks and also underpins much of the Heat Networks Delivery Unit (HNDU) and Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) work by UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).However, it was always recognised that the Code of Practice would need to be updated at intervals to reflect new experience and understanding, feedback from the industry, changes in regulation and results from research projects. Probably the most important update has been to make compliance with CP1 easier to verify and check.A series of fully integrated checklists now presents a more structured and robust toolkit for checking compliance with CP1 (2020). It is hoped that this Code of Practice will support the development of a wider heat networks quality assurance scheme, ultimately contributing to the regulation and decarbonisation of the heat sector.This document CP1 (2020) and the associated checklists set out a major update to CP1 (2015). However, this second edition still remains a work in progress on a longer journey for the heat networks sector. There is a clear need to gather a more detailed evidence base and much more work is needed to develop further guidance and verification in the long term. But CP1 (2020) is a very significant step forward and aims to take the heat network sector to the next level.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Part A: Understanding and using this Code
• Part B: The requirements
• Annexes
• List of figures and tables