Stefen's Upper Intermediate English Listening Class: Energy Positive House

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Stefen is a TESOL qualified English teacher based in Pimlico, central London. Email ssandell@mail.com for enquiries regarding lessons in Westminster, Belgravia and Chelsea. The questions in the exercise are included below. Listen to Sir Tom Jones' song here! : https://youtu.be/IO81C6tVcsc ------------ 1) Ben Adam-Smith is interviewing Professor Phil ______________________ from the ________________________ School of Architecture, where Solcer House was designed and_________________. 2) Many countries have __________________ for reducing their ___________________emissions. 3) The EU wants to have compulsory ‘_______________________ carbon housing’ by 2019. 4) The objective was to make Solcer House ‘energy ______________________________’, which means that it generates _______________________ energy than it consumes. 5) The design team used a ‘_________________________ approach’ to integrate various _____________________ that they were developing, into the __________________ of the house. 6) The house has three sources of __________________________energy. 7) The house’s energy demand for both electricity and___________has been_____________________to roughly the energy performance level of a Passive House. 8) ____________________ electricity is used to power the lights and all electric appliances in the house, as well as the heat_________________. It is also used to heat the _________________ in the property. 9) Solcer House includes technology for the __________________ of both heat and electricity, the latter of which is stored in______________. 10) The Transpired _________________ Collector wall on the ______________ side of the building, brings warm _________________ into the house through a Mechanical Ventilation and Heat ______________________ System. ------------------ Bonus Exercise! Rearrange each of the following groups of jumbled-up letters to make a word and reveal the meaning of the anagram SOLCER: T A R M S A O T O E R I P N R O F A W O L B R O A C N Y N R E E G O G E R I N -------------------- Recording Transcript Hello I’m Ben Adam-Smith. Today I’m chatting to Professor Phil Jones 4” from the Welsh School of Architecture.5“ Around the world there are certain targets for reducing carbon emissions. 10” In Europe there’s one about zero carbon housing by 2019. 15” We’re going to talk about the first carbon positive house. 18” Solcer House is a project that they have designed and built at the Welsh School of Architecture. 23” Why was that what we wanted to achieve in the first place? 25” We had the chance to design and construct a house. 28” The aim was to make it energy positive 32” so that over the year it generates more energy than it uses. 35” So we were able to bring together a number of these technologies that we were working on 41” at a sort of research and development level, into a real building. 45” And the aim was to try and use what we call a ‘systems approach’ 49” to integrate the technologies together, and to integrate the technologies into the architecture. 53” So the house has renewable energy. 58” The energy demand of the house, both power and heat, 1’02” has been reduced 1’04” to round about Passive House performance, and we incorporate energy storage for both thermal and electricity. 1’10” So the solar electricity 1’13” is used for the lights and the small power, it’s used to run the heat pump, which we use as part of the heating system 1’21”, then it charges the batteries 1’23”, then it heats hot water 1’26”, if we’ve got any left over then we export to the grid, which is usually in the summer time. 1’31’ The thermal system: we start off by bringing air into the building 1’36” through a Transpired Solar Collector, which is an air collector wall 1’41” on the South elevation. 1’42” When the sun is out, that preheats the air. It then comes through a Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery System 1’49”, where it picks up some heat from the air being exhausted, and then the air is topped up with heat from a heat pump 1’56”, and that’s used to heat the house. So we heat the house with a ventilation system. 2’