This general project - metering of water, electricity and heat consumption - demonstrates how individual consumption metering and energy management can be utilised to ensure minimal environmental impact.

The aim in combining these two models is to cut down consumption of resources in the properties by at least 25%.

The system permits precise logging of resource-savings achieved and ensures energy management for the benefit of residents, while also enabling subsequent evaluation of the projects as a whole.

Meters are placed visibly in each flat, usually in the hall. On the display tenants can read the daily, monthly or annual consumption. Even the instantaneous rate of consumption can be read. The results available on the display come from radiator meters, hot water meters and electric meters located in the flat. Radio receivers bring the data to a central computer and from there back to the display in each flat.

As required by law in Denmark, the charge of heat and, electricity in the Hedebygade Block must be based on individual meter reading.

Quarterly accounts
Each flat gets a quarterly account informing the tenants about energy and water consumption.
This account is presented in the form of a diagram that shows the consumption of each flat in the specific house, normally with two or three entrance stairways.

For privacy each tenant must identify his own consumption by use of a pincode. In this way the tenants may compare their own consumption with that of the neighbours and check if they are above or below average. The quarterly accounts are presented on notice boards in the entrance of each stairway.

Eco-accounts
Eco-accounts distributed to each individual house explain the level of consumption compared with that of the other houses on the block. Diagrams inform the tenants of the annual consumption, the level of consumption compared to the previous years and a forecast for the current year. Also the CO2 emissions are shown. Like the quarterly accounts the eco-accounts are presented in the entrance of each stairway. An additional diagram of the consumption of the individual buildings is presented on the notice board in the community house.

Turnkey Contractor:
Torben Wormsle/Rådgivende ingeniør