Can over-consumption and anti-environmental practices in student accommodation be blamed on “all-inclusive rent” packages? The inclusion of utilities has become standard practice for many providers and is popular with students. Marketing of rooms is easier and more...
With the ongoing energy crisis and costs still high, there has been a growing demand by providers of student accommodation, to manage heating more effectively. Too often in HMOs, the complexity of thermostat operation means the ‘constant mode’ is permanently engaged....
How can behavioural change be used to drive down energy use in student accommodation? There is a widespread consensus that the key areas that will help the UK to meet climate and environmental goals relate to how we travel, what we eat, what we buy, and energy use....
Student accommodation has seen a dramatic evolution in the last 25 years. Pre-turn of the century, most rooms were owned and managed by universities, many of them more like hostels than hotels. Then big finance moved into the sector. Fast forward to 2022 and its...
A new report by Cornwall Insight, one of the top management consultancies in the energy, utilities, and environmental sector, says that energy buyers have many more years of rocketing fuel prices to come. Stating that prices will remain above £100/MWh annually, which...
The Student accommodation sector Since the turn of the century the student accommodation sector has been revolutionised! Until around the time of the millennium, students had the choice of university-run halls of residence or converted homes for multiple occupation...
The revolution in the student accommodation sector over the last decade has provided practically every university town with developments that offer a real home from home experience for their occupants. Draughty halls of residence with wafer thin mattresses are now few...
How a simple setting can yield greater energy savings in student accommodation. The levels of automation we enjoy through technology undoubtably make’s our lives easier and in most cases more efficient. In the context of heating control for student accommodation, it...
The LOT20 Directive to ensure the efficiency of electric heaters has been in force since January 2018. The headline rule is - the installation of heaters without controls is not permitted. This has been remedied by new installations being fulfilled using integrated...
"...Customers with wet installations benefit from the same reliability as those with panel heaters" For many years Ecostat has provided cleverly simple control of energy for student accommodation particularly those fitted with electric panel heaters. ‘Wet’ systems...
