Galway City Dog Shelter
The Galway City Dog Shelter was first constructed in 1988. This building consists of five indoor kennels, a washroom, a vet room and storerooms. An extension was then built in 2015 where an office, canteen, reception, hallway and toilet were added.
Built to house up to 20 dogs at any one time, the building fabric, thermal properties and heating methods meant a wide variety of measures were considered to improve energy efficiency and to reduce the building’s carbon emissions. Pre-works, the annual usage of the building was 15,522 kWh. The works allows an 82% reduction in the annual energy usage of the building.
The upgrades to this building consisted of:
Description of works | Energy saved (kWh) | tCo2e saved towards 2030 target | Cost saving / Year |
Removal of Boiler and installation of five electric smart heaters | 6,715 | 2.15 | € 838 |
Six windows upgraded: 1.2 W/m2K U-Value | 741 | 0.19 | € 371 |
Two doors upgraded: 1.2 W/m2K U-Value | 1,613 | 0.42 | € 807 |
200mm Attic insulation: 0.4 - 0.13 W/m2K U-Value | 1,216 | 0.31 | € 608 |
7.5 kW Solar PV Installation | 2,470 | 0.63 | € 815 |
Fleet Decarbonisation & EV Charging facilities installation | 5,232 | 1.33 | € 5,461 |
Total | 17,987 | 5.03 | € 8,899 |
Installation of electric smart heaters and airtight sealed
Installation of 1.2W/m2k U-value
Installation of 1.2W/m2K windows, EDDI diverter & install of 200mm Attic insulation
Conversion of Diesel van to EV Van
Installation of EV Charger to be supplied by PV Solar array
Installation of 7.5 kW PV Solar Array
The Solar PV installation can lead to significant levels of solar generation as can be seen from the above overview of how it performed on the 18th of May 2025