Harron Homes Meets New Future Home Standard with Sustainable Panasonic Aquarea Heat Pumps
Barnsley, South Yorkshire. England
2025
Housing developer, Harron Homes, was looking to adopt renewable heating into its new build housing project at the Nevison’s Fold development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The project included a collaborative stakeholder effort from Harron Homes in conjunction with specialists, Secon Renewables, Panasonic, UK Cylinders, Honeywell Home and installers D&R Plumbing & Heating and Steve Wade Electrical, which included utilising the Panasonic Aquarea J Series Monobloc Air-to-Water heat pump.
Challenge
Secon Renewables, Harron Homes
Solutions & applied technology
Secon Renewables turned to Panasonic to provide an energy efficient
and sustainable heating system to meet the needs of the incoming Future Homes
Standard 2025. To date, D&R Plumbing & Heating and Steve Wade
Electrical has installed 50 homes on the site with the Panasonic Aquarea J
Series Monobloc air to water heat pumps, with another 277 newly built homes
scheduled over the next few years.
A
spokesperson from Harron Homes Yorkshire said, “We centre our house designs
around today’s lifestyle needs, and collaborating with Secon Renewables and
Panasonic at Nevison’s Fold helped bring Harron Homes into its next sustainable
era. Not only are air source heat pumps more energy efficient, they are
designed to give more free space in the home, and have potential to reduce
heating bills for our customers. We look forward to continuing our relationship
with Panasonic as more of our developments adopt ASHPs.”
“With
heat pumps, the one big thing that we need to do in the industry is collaborate,”
added Nathan Tranter, Key Account Manager at Panasonic Heating & Cooling
Solutions. That's what this partnership involves, as we make sure that the whole
journey is done together in the transition to heat pumps.” Speaking
on the unit itself, Nathan further commented, “The Panasonic Aquarea J
generation is the perfect solution for new builds for a number of different
reasons, one being its true monobloc design.”
The
Panasonic Aquarea J Series High Performance heat pump boasts a high energy
efficiency of A+++ Energy Class at 35ºC and A++ at 55ºC, plus a high SCOP
capacity. Furthermore, the impressive system can work under higher pressure and
reach a 65ºC water flow temperature.
Simon
Brown, New Build Sales Director at Secon Renewables said, “Moving away from gas
boilers to heat pumps and ensuring that we are not burning fossil fuels is a big
generational change. We are delighted that we can be amongst the stakeholders
for one of the first regional housebuilders to adopt this renewable heat pump
technology at scale ahead of some of the larger housebuilders.”
The
education of heat pumps is vital in a project like this, for upskilling the new
and current generations of engineers, to ensure efficient running of the units.
Panasonic offers accredited Air-to-Water training courses for engineers, as
well as on-going technical support with remote communication and fault-finding
processes. The stakeholders attended on-site Panasonic training that was
delivered by the team at Secon to cover all aspects of the system design,
installation and commissioning. The team additionally provided further training
to the sales team at Harron Homes to ensure they were fully on board with the
technology and could easily relay user details to the future homeowners of the
properties.
Paul
Wade, Supervisor at Steve Wade Electrical said, “Panasonic came onsite to
deliver training. From the first installation, we got the units up and running
with the Panasonic team on hand to answer any questions. Now we're at a place
where we can install the heat pumps to a high quality at a decent pace. We want
quick set up, easy installation, and customer friendly products, which is what
has been achieved.”
To
find out more about the Panasonic’s range of products, please visit www.aircon.panasonic.eu/. Visit Secon Renewables
website https://www.seconrenewables.com/ or visit Harron Homes
website https://www.harronhomes.com/.
Green Impact of the project
Aquarea J Series High Performance heat pump boasts a high energy efficiency of A+++ Energy Class at 35ºC and A++ at 55ºC
Partner
Secon Renewables, Harron Homes
Capacity
Units intalled
50 Aquarea J Series Monobloc Air-to-Water heat pump
