The next Lancashire Best Practice club event will be held on the 20th Sept at Leyland and will look at coastal demonstration projects at Cleveleys and Morecambe. Demonstration projects aim to showcase best practice within the industry .
More details, flyers and registration forms available on the events page.
Interesting link and article over at edie.
Also worth following the link there to powerperfector , a voltage optimiser device supplier, which contains, amongst others the following ‘testimonial’:
Energy Manager Wigan MBC Legal and Property Services
‘We have recently installed two powerPerfector’s (a 420 kva and a 280 kva), at our Market Hall in Wigan. The results are staggering, for a 9% reduction in voltage we are experiencing 16% savings in consumption. This amounts to £30,632 p/a (based on 9.074p/kW), with a 14 month payback on investment, figures have been verified on a daily basis utilising half hourly automatic meter readings, so we are satisfied that they are correct. This also means that we are on line to save over 141 tonnes of carbon by the use of the powerPerfector units.
A quick scan of powerperfectors site indicates SME’s may be able to get loans or fundings from the Carbon Trust
Lancashire Economic Partnership (LEP) are hosting a free green breakfast networking event, Profit the Environment and your Business, aimed at construction and manufacturing businesses on 12 Sept. From the LEP website:
– Are you taking effective measures to reduce your carbon footprint?
– Is your competitiveness stalling on environmental performance?
– Are you buying energy at the best time and price?
– Are your green credentials strong enough to win new business?
– Is your business exposed to energy risk?
– Are you in full control of your water supply and wastewater?
– How much profit are you throwing out with the waste?
– Are you ready for new environmental legislation coming your way?
more info and registration at the LEP website
Following on from our Best Practice Club Innovation event: I have received details of the North of England Excellence Innovation event on the 25th July at Haddock Park Racecourse
The circular states:
This promises to be a lively and stimulating event. Led by Paul Sloane of the BQF and Destination Innovation the evening will include a talk on Innovation and Leadership followed by some thought provoking and interactive group working. This will be aimed at showing delegates a number of creative problem solving techniques. Continue reading
Mile Barter, communications at Lancs BSF, has sent in the following update:
Pupils from Burnley are using the building of their new school to learn about the environment – and to encourage action to stop global warming. The 11 and 12-year-olds from Shuttleworth College, on Kiddrow Lane, have set up a sustainability project as part of their science learning. They are researching the school’s carbon footprint and finding ways of reducing energy consumption Continue reading
The Sunday Times yesterday reported that the BSF programme is missing a big opportunity to promote sustainable building methods.
A report from the education and skills select committee, headed by Labour MP Barry Sheerman, will slam the programme for missing a big opportunity to promote sustainable building methods.
About £150m has been set aside to improve environmental standards on the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme, but MPs believe this is a drop in the ocean in the context of the £45 billion BSF programme.
The Sustainable Development Commission told the MPs that it would add 15% to 20% to the cost of building schools to make them carbon neutral and more energy efficient. Schools account for about 15% of the public sector’s carbon footprint in the UK.
One committee source said: “There is no doubt the green stuff has just been tacked on as an afterthought in this programme � which is amazing given the government preaching about its green agenda.”
Read more online
It would be interesting to hear comments from BSF programmes in the area….
The recent article on BSF schools and local business was incorrectly accredited to Miles Barter, when in fact it was written by Andrew Bond of Catalyst Lend Lease. Thanks guys.
News from BSF Lanacshire: Miles Barter writes:
Five businesses in Lancashire and northwest England have won another £11 million of contracts in the first wave of the Lancashire Buildings Schools for the Future programme, bringing the total of new work awarded in the region to over £20 million.
The new contracts, for installation of mechanical and electrical fittings, have been awarded by Catalyst Lend Lease, Lancashire County Council’s long-term partner in the 10-year, £250 million BSF scheme. Two of the successful contractors, T. Jolly Services Ltd and James Mercer Group Ltd, come from Preston. The other contractors are Walsh Integrated Building Services, from Nelson, Bowker Ltd from Morecambe, and Farebrother Ltd, from Denton, near Manchester.
The contractors will be working on the Burnley Campus, Pendle Vale College and Shuttleworth College projects, which are scheduled to open in September 2008. One of the biggest contracts, for £2.5 million, has gone to T. Jolly Services Ltd of Preston, to supply and install all of the heating, ventilation domestic water and plumbing systems at Pendle Vale.
This includes many energy-saving technologies, including a Biomass boiler, fuelled by wood chips, ground source heat pumps, solar panels for domestic water heating, combined heat and power pumps to heat the swimming pool, rain water harvesting and a natural ventilator system for classrooms. All of these technologies will combine to make this new college one of the most energy efficient educational buildings in Britain.
George Jackson, managing director of T. Jolly said: “This is an important project for our company and we are proud to be a part of the construction team that will be delivering a high quality, energy efficient building that will benefit the local community and the environment for years to come.”
“Our policy is always to give construction and fit-out work to local contractors whenever possible,” said James Lasseter, Catalyst Lend Lease’s general manager for the Lancashire BSF programme. “It’s part of our pledge to help the county’s business community to benefit from this big investment in education.”
Marcus Johnstone, Lancashire County Council’s cabinet member for children and young people said: “This highly skilled electrical and mechanical work is at the heart of the county’s economy. I am delighted that our investment in a better education for the children of Burnley and Pendle is supporting employment across the county.”
The full building programme for the first wave of the BSF scheme involves seven colleges for 11 to 16-year-olds, a sixth form centre, four special schools, a primary school, a nursery school, a faith centre and a public library. All are scheduled for completion by 2010.
Two publications from the NWDA that should get your attention:
A useful guide from the Business Resource Efficiency & Waste Programme (BREW) in the Northwest.
This booklet will give you the contacts and tools to enable you to access the support that you need to rise to the challenge, help the planet and save your organisation money.
and
The Northwest Climate Change Action Plan sets out a Vision towards 2010 and action plans for our region
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Contracts worth nearly ten million pounds have already been placed with Lancashire firms as work begins on the Building Schools for the Future programme in Burnley and Pendle. Nearly six million pounds of business has been won by firms in East Lancashire. The contracts include work on things like fixtures and fittings, steel frames, and earthworks.
The Building Schools for the Future programme will involve 250 million pounds of development on nine sites in Burnley and Pendle. Work has started on three sites where students are due to start using the facilities in September 2008. The Shuttleworth College site on Burnley Road, Padiham, will house a 1,050 place school for pupils aged 11 to 16 and a learning support centre.
Keith Walton Brickworth Ltd, of Nelson, has a contract to provide bat roosts.
James Killelea Ltd, of Rossendale, has a contract to provide steel work.
H. Breakell, of Blackburn, has a contract to provide lifts.
Vari-tech, of Blackburn, has a contract to provide fixtures, fittings and equipment.
The Burnley Campus, on Barden Lane, will house a 600 pupil sixth form, a primary school, a primary special school, a children’s centre, a faith centre and a public library. Orders placed so far for the site are worth 1.3 million pounds to Lancashire businesses:
James Killelea Ltd, of Rossendale, has a contract to provide steel works.
The Pendle Vale College and Pendle Community High School site, on Oxford Road in Nelson, will house a 1,050 place school for pupils aged 11 to 16, a special school for pupils aged 11 to 19, and a learning support centre. Orders placed so far for the site are worth 5.9 million pounds to Lancashire businesses:
Wm Taylor Pools, of Preston, has a contract to provide a hydrotherapy pool.
H. Breakell, of Blackburn, has a contract to provide lifts.
The Building Schools for the Future programme is a being spearheaded by Lancashire County Council in partnership with developers Catalyst Lend Lease and builders Bovis Lend Lease.
Michael Damms, the chief executive of East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, said: “The Building Schools for the Future programme is a great boost to the economy of East Lancashire and makes a real statement about confidence in the area. We look forward to working with the county council and the developers to help local companies identify business opportunities.”
Marcus Johnstone, Lancashire County Council’s cabinet member for children and young people, said: “I am delighted that so much of the money we are spending on new schools in east Lancashire is finding its way into the local economy. This project is bringing massive regeneration to Burnley and Pendle We will be working with the developers, the chamber of commerce and local business people to build a more prosperous, happier, and better educated community.”
Catalyst Lend Lease’s general manager for the Lancashire BSF programme said: “Our goal is to use as many local contractors and suppliers as we can to help us build and equip these new colleges. “We want to support the local community and encourage contractors to recruit local people to work on these projects.”
Thanks to Cath Pickup for this news item .
Related events from the club include – Life After Frameworks on the 24th May and Bidding To Win on June 7/8
Details on the events page.
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