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Making lots of small, low-cost improvements across its huge
property portfolio was a successful energy-saving strategy for
low carbon award winner Leisure Connection. Now it has its
eye on even bigger prizes. Ewen Rose reports
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hen Leisure Connection was nominated Leisure Connection is a building services client
for the CIBSE Low Carbon Awards 2009, with clients of its own. It manages a portfolio of more
its strategy to deliver energy savings across than 60 properties, including four national sports
its huge portfolio of managed sites was to centres, community and school leisure centres, and an
roll out a series of relatively low-cost measures to show its impressive theatre in St Albans, mostly on behalf of local
clients that much could be achieved on a small budget. authorities.
This approach, which led to it being named Low Leisure centres are notorious energy consumers, with
Carbon Client of the Year in the awards, has borne lots of fl oodlighting and high hot water demands during
fruit and the group is on track to reduce utility costs, long periods of occupancy. Leisure Connection’s head of
including water consumption, by its target of 12 per cent. property services Paul Bailey estimates that the sector
However, since the award, more improvement has been is responsible for around £700m worth of energy use
made and, in the second phase of these changes, the annually and that this fi gure is still rising. It is a big
company wants to take more ambitious steps and make target, and even relatively modest improvements can
deeper cuts to its carbon footprint. deliver big savings. >
www.cibsejournal.com October 2009 CIBSE Journal 45
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