Hub Partners

What is a Hub Partner?

A Hub Partner is a Domestic Energy Assessor and Green Deal Assessor who has partnered up with RDC Energy Ltd. Once a potential Hub Partner has sign RDC Energy ‘Heat Engineer Hub Partner’ agreement and carried out training. RDC Energy lists their information on the Hub Partner page which outlines credentials and the types of services the Hub Partner can offer.

The whole package

Heat Engineer Hub Partners have been created to provide a service to MCS installers of heat pumps and Biomass systems. MCS installers can make contact with RDC Energy or a Hub Partner and request EPC, Green Deal assessment and a site visit for a full room by room heat loss calculation to size the heat source and emitters.

Because the MCS installer can ask one professional to visit a site this process reduces the number of visits to a property before an installation takes place. So the EPC, Green deal and MCS heat loss calculation can be surveyed from one visit by one person.

The Hub Partner is responsible for EPC’s and a Green deal assessments, but RDC Energy at head office process the MCS room by room calculations once the Hub Partner has sent through the site survey for each room.
RDC Energy will then send a completed ‘MCS Heat Loss and Heat Pump/Biomass Report’ to the installer. RDC Energy Ltd will send an invoice with the report for the installer to process.

Some of the details our reports include
Microgeneration Installation Standard 3005/3004 Requirements for a Domestic Property

Building Details using CIBSE Heat Loss and Energy Calculations
Each room characteristic are represented. Method applied using BS En 12831, the "Domestic Heating Design Guide", "Underfloor Heating Design Guide" and CIBSE guide A.

Building Materials - External Walls, Internal walls, Party walls & Floor type
A brief description for the building materials used.

Building Materials - Window type, Roof glazing type, Door type & Ceiling or Roof type
A brief description for the building materials used.

Heat and Energy Loss summary MIS 3005
A breakdown of power kW for different features within a room and the total power kW and Energy kWh.

U Values W/m²K and Room Temperature above and below.
Summarisation of the 'U' values used for the calculations.

Summary of Room Emitters and Performance
Emitter details, seasonal performance factor and star ratings.

Summary of Heat Pump or Biomass running costs
With the selection of the required Biomass or Heat Pump the hot water and heating running costs are presented.