Designing in Safety: Heat Networks

Designing in Safety: Heat Networks

Heat networks are rapidly growing across the UK, but with expansion comes new challenges. Safety must be at the forefront of design, operation, and regulation. This event brings together leading voices from across the industry to explore how risks can be identified early and the strategies to design them out before they escalate.

Lunch will be provided!

Who will be speaking and what to expect:

• Hywel Davies – Heat Networks and the Building Safety Act
  A briefing on the Building Safety Act and related regulations, focusing on competence, dutyholders, and which parts of a heat network fall under the Act.
• Oliver Riley - Heat networks: Inherently safer – for people and planet.
  Humans in temperate climates have heated their shelters by burning things for at least a million years, the method remaining prevalent despite the inherent risks. Heat networks offer another way. From explosion risk to planetary boundaries, Oliver will introduce heat networks and explore what makes them inherently safe – along with some pitfalls to watch out for.
• Huw Blackwell – Pressure in district and communal heating systems: Considerations on designing out and mitigating pressure risks
  Summarise of four key areas of pressurised water system design: pressure ratings – system integrity, system pressurisation, working pressures, and pressure safety systems with a focus on managing risks in high-rise and district heating applications.
• Adrian Rogers – Refrigerants and safety surrounding R290
  A look at the role of refrigerants in heat networks, with a focus on R290 and the safety challenges it presents.
• Full Agenda TBC

The day will conclude with panel discussions and networking, offering a chance to reflect on lessons learned and share best practice.

Join us to learn how designing in safety can shape heat networks.

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