People

Saving the world

Richard Groves, a trained engineer, explains how he is helping to fulfil a personal ambition in his new role

Richard Groves became an engineer to save the world.The 34-year-old, formerly an engineer at AECOM, has only been in the industry for five years, but already believes he has made a good start – helping to reduce carbon emissions from Pizza Hut and Marks and Spencer. But he hopes his recent appointment as energy and environmental manager at Goldsmiths, University of London, will build on the inroads he’s already helped to make in cutting carbon. His role at Goldsmiths was newly created after the university realised that it needed to get its CO2 emissions under control, as well as reduce its overall environmental impact. Groves arrives at the office

at 8am, but he can often be found walking around any of the university’s 80-plus buildings, working out what can be done to reduce the environmental impact of each of them. One of his current projects is redesigning the domestic hot water system for a recently completed building that comprises a teaching area, artist studio, lecture theatre and psychology research laboratory. This involves finding all 18 electric

water heaters around the building and establishing which areas they serve. So far Groves has discovered the electrical use of all the water heaters, and the trace heating being used to keep the water warm in the pipes, is ‘horrendous’ – around 50kWh per day. The new system will use solar

power for pre-heating the water, and then gas for ‘topping up’ the water to the required temperature. Once Groves discovered the sizing of the hot water heater, integral storage tank and number of solar panels, and sized and routed the new pipework, he began obtaining prices for carrying out the work. ‘I am expecting a saving of

around 7,000 to 8,000 kg/CO2 per year. While there may be a long financial payback, I consider the changes worth doing, due to the carbon reductions.’ But Groves

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Movers & Shakers

Allan Cook CBE

has become the new chairman of engineering design group, Atkins. Cook, who

is a chartered engineer with more than 30 years’ international experience in the automotive, aerospace and defence industries, was previously chief executive of Cobham PLC. In his new role he will support chief executive Keith Clarke and the board.

Design,

Now we have a

Carbon Champions network, as well as a general feeling around the campus that we all need to do our bit

stressed that there may never be an end to this type of work, because there are always ‘going to be new and great ways to reduce energy use’.

Other projects he’s working on

involve undertaking an extensive programme of thermal imaging all the buildings while the weather is cold, and pushing a particular building that is currently under construction from a BREEAM ‘very good’ rating, to ‘excellent’. He also spends much of his time meeting with staff and students who want to help with Goldsmiths’ aims of reducing wasted energy and resources. ‘There are many people here who

are passionate – as I am – about reducing our environmental impact, but have not previously had a single point of contact who can get things done. Now we have a ‘carbon champions’ network, as well as a general feeling around the campus that we all need to do our bit.’ To find out more about what

Groves helped to achieve at Pizza Hut, see page 36 of the March issue of the Journal.

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engineering and project management consultancy, Morgan

Professional Services (MPS), has appointed John Jenkins as managing director. He joins MPS from WYG Engineering Ltd, where he was also managing director. Jenkins will now lead the company’s business in the UK and internationally.

Porie Saikia-Eapen, a senior client sales manager and New York city area manager for CH2M HILL, has been awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Saikia-Eapen accepted this honor in Ascot, UK, earlier this year at a CIOB presentation ceremony. CH2M HILL is a global full-service engineering, procurement, construction, and operations firm.

Tony Byrne has

joined building services firm SES as operations director at its London and

south east division. Byrne will now be responsible for the operational management of SES project teams working on a variety of developments in the London and south east area.

Gordon Hudson,

technical director at management, engineering and development consultancy Mott

MacDonald’s, has been appointed as enterprise chairman in sustainability at Northumbria

University, Newcastle. Hudson’s new role will help to drive forward excellence and promote knowledge exchange in the built environment.

Mike Proctor has

been appointed deputy managing director at Comserve Ltd, a company

specialising in the building services equipment, maintenance and engineering sector. He will help strategically drive the business forward. Proctor was previously commercial and operations director with Cofely.

Carbon reduction company Sustain has recruited

Annie Brown as

its new building services manager. Brown will lead

the building services team, which specialises in low-energy advice and design for existing and new buildings. She was previously a member of the energy and sustainable development team at Halcrow Yolles.

Robert Judson, a fellow of CIBSE, has been awarded a doctor of business administration by Kingston University for his research into the combined effects of organisational culture and leadership style on organisational performance in the UK building services industry.

HVCA president elect Martin Burton has joined Maidstone-based Delron Services Ltd (DSL) as

contracts manager with special responsibility for developing the company’s commercial contracting arm.

Martyn Horton has joined the Bowdon Group, which operates a portfolio of businesses in the electrical and mechanical engineering services sector. Horton will be working closely with the group’s T W Sampson team to raise its profile and and help it grow.

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