Cofely’s tri-generation system
and Energy Centre at
MediaCityUK on Manchester’s
waterfront won the Combined Heat
and Power Association Industrial
and Commercial Award last year.

Earlier in 2009 it was announced
that MediaCityUK has become the
first scheme in the world to become
a BREEAM approved sustainable
community incorporating world
leading sustainability into the design
of the £500m development.

Phase one of MediaCityUK has
incorporated many features to meet
the BREEAM criteria, in particular
using water from the Manchester
Ship Canal to power, heat and cool
the buildings on the 36-acre site.
Buildings will benefit from the use
of a CHP plant energy system known
as Tri-Gen, which has many benefits
including reducing CO2 emissions.

A new BREEAM Excellent rated
Energy Centre is on the ground floor
of a multi-storey car park. It will
provide heating and cooling to a new
studio block and heating to other
areas of the complex. Hot and chilled
water are supplied via buried,
insulated pipework.

Electrical power and heat are
produced by a gas/biofuel-fired 2MW
CHP engine. Any heat not required
for heating and hot water is used to
drive a 1.5MW absorption chiller,
which is expected to meet 20% of
the cooling load.