Call for Industry-Wide District Heating Quality Standards

A director of the UK’s longest-established manufacturer of pre-insulated pipe systems used for district heating has called for an industry-wide system of quality standards to be established. He has warned that, without it, the rapid growth that the sector is experiencing may see a repeat of the same mistakes made during the last boom of the 1970s and 80s that led to catastrophic system failures.The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)’s report published in the spring of 2012: The future of heating: A strategic framework for low carbon heat, highlighted the key role that district