Property Management

Heritage and Buildings

Grounds and Gardens

Footpaths and Access

Woodlands

Conservation

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Estate Buildings

Aller Park School

Barn Theatre

Blacklers

Chimmels

Church Tower

Cider Press Centre

Dartington Lodge

The Elmhirst Centre

Foxhole

Gardens Office

Gardens Summer House

Great Hall

High Cross House

Lime Kilns /
Shinners Bridge

Lower Tweed Mill

Medieval Courtyard: East/West Wings

Old Postern &
Coach Houses

Orchards

Round House

Warren Lane Houses

White Hart Bar &
Dining Room

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Off Estate Buildings

Central Offices

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The Dartington Hall Trust is using heat-seeking camera technology to help the charity become carbon and waste neutral by 2015.

The heat-seeking camera is a new technology, funded by the ‘Friends of Dartington’. It is being employed to help reduce the estate’s current dependency on oil, which makes up the largest part of Dartington’s 1100 tonne carbon footprint.

Chief Executive Vaughan Lindsay said, “The Dartington Hall Trust is a charity that is always looking for new innovative ways to face the challenges of sustainability. Heating is currently the Trust’s biggest expense and visual evidence of heat loss can be a powerful tool to help identify areas where carbon and financial savings can be made”.

By picking up on radiation waves, the thermal imaging camera can detect the temperature of anything from a cup of tea to a drafty letterbox. The camera is most effective on dry calm nights and will identify levels of heat escaping through walls, doors and windows.

The Trust has hired the state-of-the-art camera equipment to use as part of a broader energy awareness and efficiency initiative, which could save between 20% and 40% of the energy used to keep staff and visitors warm.