CONFERENCE ECOBUILD
Consumers still reluctant to insulate, say energy firms
Consumers are reluctant to insulate their homes, even if the service is offered for free, said Don Leiper from utilty group E.ON. He told a session titled ‘Don’t
generate, insulate’: ‘We’ve actually offered money to customers to encourage to insulate their homes, but in the future that model isn’t really going to work. ‘We need to work together
with the government regulator and other partners. As energy suppliers, we need to step up to the plate.’ Eric Salomon, from EDF Energy,
said: ‘Most people think their house is very or fairly efficient, but the UK’s housing stock is among the least energy efficient in Europe.’ Phil Wynn Owen, director
general of climate change and consumer support at the Department for Energy and Climate Change, confirmed that secondary legislation on the Green Deal would soon follow to reflect feedback in response to the consultation on the policy. He predicted that a second
phase of the Renewable Heat Incentive – which sees consumers receive payments for producing heat from renewable sources – would get the go ahead.
Europe is hugely behind on targets
Europe is massively behind its target to reduce energy consumption by 20% in 2020, an expert on European legislation told delegates at Ecobuild. Zsolt Toth, EU public affairs
officer of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: ‘There is a huge gap between policy and what’s happening on the ground. Clearly, we are not doing enough.’ Creating a more energy
efficient economy is important to Europe, said Toth, because it is the most effective way to meet the climate change challenge, to reduce fuel poverty, to create 2-3 million jobs across the EU, and to ‘put Europe back on a growing economic track’.
14 CIBSE Journal May 2012
Construction processes used in the Olympic Park will leave a legacy for the UK’s building industry
Olympics ‘will be defining moment for our sector’
l ‘Greenest Games’ have produced key design success as part of their legacy
The session titled ‘Greenest Games and the greenest learning’ heard how processes used in the construction of the Olympic Park in east London will benefit the UK’s construction industry in the future, as well as impressing potential customers overseas. Construction Minister Mark Prisk said: ‘The Olympics is a defining moment for the construction sector. When can you think of a time that an Olympic park has been finished on time, if not earlier?’
Mike Peasland of Balfour
Beatty spoke of some of the design successes from the Olympics building work. The aquatic centre has temporary ‘wings’ on either side of the building to seat 17,500 during the Games; these will be removed afterwards when the swimming pools revert to community use.
‘In the original design mechanical ventilation was going to be required for the temporary stands,’ he explained.
‘Humidity and the design of the environment
is hugely important within a swimming pool environment because of the aggressive nature of the air. With our sister company and the designers, we devised a way of removing the mechanical ventilation from the design just by changing the pitch of the roof. So in Games mode, this is going to save something like 56 tonnes of CO2. We achieved 15% better energy efficiency than required by Part L.
‘An extraordinary number of people from overseas think we are leading, so let’s lead’
Andy Haynes of Network Rail outlined some of the green options that had been taken up in its programme to upgrade major stations and infrastructure ahead of the Games, in order to cope with the numbers of visitors that will need to be transported to the Olympic Park.
King’s Cross station, built in 1851, uses 2,500 square metres of PV tiles on its roof, installed during an ongoing £550m refurbishment project. Paul Morrell, the government’s Chief Construction
Adviser, was enthusiastic about opportunities that British companies will have overseas as a result of work that will be showcased by the Olympics. ‘An extraordinary number of people from overseas I’ve met over the last few years think that we are leading, so let’s lead and let’s not follow,’ he said.
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