Case Study

A Ground Source Heat Pump for Rockwool Woodland Centre for Learning, Bridgend

A Ground Source Heat Pump for Rockwool Woodland Centre for Learning, Bridgend

Rockwool Woodlands for Learning Centre is a community project Near Bridgend in the South Wales area. It consists of a timber building, constructed by volunteer labour, within the confines of the woods around the Rockwool factory. A large proportion of the work was carried out by unskilled labour from the community, many of whom have some form of learning difficulty and it is a testament to their efforts that the building has proved very successful for lectures, seminars and general courses on woodland projects for schools and the wider community in general. The Problem: Rockwell Woodland for Learning Centre needed a low cost, low impact, relatively maintenance-free heating system for their building. They had been careful to make the building as sustainable as po

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