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Building services engineers is not only the person who can save Despina Katsikakis, group chairman
need to be the “second the planet, they are also the person of design consultancy DEGW. She
architects” if they are to improve who can save us money.” said: “We do not need to be tearing
the energy performance of Sean Lockie, head of down 1960s and 1970s buildings
buildings, a recent conference was sustainability at cost-management but reinventing their interiors to
told. In the past 50 years, building consultancy Faithful and Gould, support much greater sustainable
designers have had it very easy, told the conference that there was environments.”
with abundant and cheap energy, a wealth of knowledge currently Kevin McCloud, the television
according to Cal Bailey, marketing available to improve buildings’ presenter of Grand Designs, said
and sustainability director of sustainability, but it was nowhere that energy suppliers needed to
building services group NG Bailey. near enough to address the targets become energy management
Design, form and function have set by governments for cutting businesses, providing the least
dominated the built environment, greenhouse gas emissions. amount of energy possible while
but it is now our engineers who “We are often disappointed by buying up surplus energy generated
have to take more of a lead, he said some decisions our clients make. off-grid.
at Ecobuild 2009. They say, ‘just give me an answer Crispin Burridge, head of
“Building services engineers based on the payback’,” Lockie sustainable construction at Marks
are the second architects of our said. & Spencer, insisted whole-life
buildings today and the people who Rather than demolishing costing remained “woefully
will save us the most money in our buildings and starting again, true misunderstood”. He argued that,
buildings,” Bailey said. energy efficiency lies in transforming if clients put sustainability as a
“ If you want to minimise whole- the use of the two million requirement in their building
life costs, you need to build it that commercial buildings already works contracts, “we can drive the
way. The building services engineer Cal Bailey at Ecobuild: call for change standing in the UK, according to industry to deliver this”.
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