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Youth Support Service
23-25 Market Street
CREWE
CW1 2EW
9900-3902-0255-6430-5080
29 October 2025
Operational rating and DEC
This building’s operational rating is B.
For more information on the building’s energy performance, see the DEC for this building.
Recommendations
| Recommendation | Potential impact on carbon emissions |
|---|---|
| Consider upgrading major time controls to include optimum start/stop. | High |
| Consider how building fabric air tightness could be improved, for example sealing, draught stripping and closing off unused ventilation openings, chimneys. | Medium |
| Consider fitting 24 hour/7 day time controls onto electric HWS cylinders. | Medium |
| Engage experts to review overall air conditioning strategy and propose an investment programme for upgrading and/or switching to alternative solutions. | Medium |
| Consider installing weather compensator controls on heating and cooling systems. | Medium |
| Recommendation | Potential impact on carbon emissions |
|---|---|
| Consider engaging experts to review the condition of the building fabric and propose measures to improve energy performance. This might include building pressure tests for air tightness and thermography tests for insulation continuity. | Medium |
| Recommendation | Potential impact on carbon emissions |
|---|---|
| Engage experts to review the building lighting strategies and propose alterations and/or upgrades to daylighting provisions, luminaires and their control systems and an implementation plan. | Medium |
| Consider constructing draught lobbies to reduce unwanted air infiltration. | Low |
| Recommendation | Potential impact on carbon emissions |
|---|---|
| Review the heating times programmed into the Hitachi A/C controllers. One shows an incorrect time, +30 minutes. Consider programming in schedules to match occupancy. | Medium |
| Investigate the costs of replacing the AC local controls with a whole building control system, include the local room heaters and local DHW controls within any project scope | High |
| Consider fitting occupancy sensors or time delay off switches to lighting systems in intermittently used areas of the building lighting e.g. toilets, store rooms and the staffroom rooms | Medium |
| Consider replacing the 2D florescent lights with direct LED replacement bulbs, this could reduce the lighting energy demand by 50% | Medium |
| Consider a 7 day timer for the staffroom urn. Typically this could save up to £120 per year by turning off the urn over, nights and weekends. | Low |
| Ensure all windows and doors are kept closed once the Air Conditioning is active. Air Conditioning units are sized to the volume of air to be controlled, and units use energy exponentially, the harder a unit is used the more energy it consumes | High |
| Investigate the entrance doors, they show large air gaps, consider how this gap could be closed off. | Low |
| Ensure that lights and electrical equipment are switched off when rooms are unoccupied. | Medium |
| Avoid letting IT equipment going into sleep mode, where ever possible turn equipment of at the socket, include monitors and printers during occupancy and base stations at the end of each day | Medium |
Building and report details
- Building occupier
- Cheshire East Council
- Building type
- General Office
- Building environment
- Heating and Natural Ventilation
- On-site renewable energy sources
- Separable energy uses discounted
- Electricity used
- 59979 kW h
- Total useful floor area
- 776.00 square metres
- Building reference
- RRN-9900-3902-0255-6430-5080
- Report issued on
- 30 October 2015
- Calculation tool
- SystemsLink, ORToolkit, v3.6
- Type of inspection
- Physical
Assessor’s details
- Assessor’s name
- Mr. Ian Potts
- Employer’s name
- Entrust Support Services Ltd
- Employer’s address
- Fairway, Stafford, ST16 3TW
- Assessor ID
- EES/015151
- Accreditation scheme
- Elmhurst Energy Systems Ltd
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