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Sharper focus for
SummitSkills
SUMMITSKILLS, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering, is refocusing its work on the areas that give employers and the sector most direct value. National Occupational Standards, apprenticeships and qualifications development will be the priority areas upon which SummitSkills has based its revised strategy and remit. Overseeing SummitSkills’ refocused priorities will be Nigel Hollett, who has recently been appointed as general manager for the organisation.
Speaking after the appointment, Mr Hollett said: “I’m excited to be taking SummitSkills forward into its new phase. “With the economy on the upturn and with recent positive policy announcement on construction and low carbon incentives, now more than ever we will strive to make sure that the qualifications, apprenticeships and standards for the sector reflect what businesses on the ground need them to be.”
Pro-Temp wins Green Gateway award
PRO-TEMP AIR Conditioning has received an award from Mitsubishi Electric for its work with Liverpool Football Club, replacing old R22 air conditioning at Anfield, in the first year of the new the Green Gateway Awards.
Mitsubishi Electric devised the awards in order to recognise the important contribution of its partners in encouraging energy efficiency in the built environment. The award was presented to Pro-Temp at the company’s recent conference held at Anfield by Mitsubishi Electric’s sustainable solutions manager, Martin Fahey. He said: “Anfield is a great example of partnership between a supplier and its customers.
“Liverpool’s home had loads of different air conditioning equipment and types, from multiple manufacturers, and Pro-Temp were proactive in approaching the club to explain the issues with R22 and convey the benefits in upgrading.”
Pro-Temp’s detailed analysis of Anfield’s systems used Mitsubishi Electric’s audit tool to show the estimated payback period on the new investment and demonstrated an average 53% reduction in run cost savings for each unit. Jon Yeates, who founded Pro-Temp with partner Tom
Hetherington, said: “We were also able to show that the club would cut their carbon emissions by more than half using modern equipment. “Our role as a BSP also meant that we were able to offer Liverpool a seven- year warranty on the new equipment and help them offset some of the capital costs against their annual tax bills using the Government’s Enhanced Capital Allowance scheme.”
Pro-Temp has extensive experience of both air conditioning and heat pump design, installation and maintenance and has developed a strong relationship with Anfield, which allowed the company to help the football club plan for an R22 phase out.
“We know that there are still thousands of businesses out there that have yet to grasp the full implications of the ban on R22,” said Mr Fahey. “What Pro-Temp has done is work with its customer to develop a planned schedule of replacement that fits in with Anfield’s business plans. “We wanted to recognise the success of this approach and acknowledge the fact that Pro- Temp has helped its customer tackle an important issue and achieve on-going savings in running costs.”
Past president rewarded with Distinguished Service
Past president Peter Hoyle has become only the sixth person in the 109-year history of the Building & Engineering Services (B&ES) Association to be awarded its Distinguished Service Award. In making the
presentation in Mr Hoyle’s native Yorkshire, B&ES chief executive Roderick Pettigrew explained that the Distinguished Service Award was conferred upon “those who have rendered extra-special service to the Association and its activities” adding that the roll-call of previous recipients
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represented “a genuine B&ES hall of fame”. Mr Hoyle was the only president – of what was then the HVCA – since the Second World War to have served two consecutive terms of office “to say nothing of his subsequent prominence on the international stage, as president of GCI-UICP, the European umbrella body for our sector,” Mr Pettigrew added.
He went on to recall that Mr Hoyle had been a member of the Council of the Association for over 20 years, and had also served on
The virtual ice factory
OVER THE PAST few years the Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust has had many requests to look round the ice factory. Unfortunately, this cannot be arranged because the Ice Factory is property of Associated British Ports on a working dock, and for safety and security reasons, visitors have to be accompanied by ABP staff.
It is unfortunate, because you need to see inside the Ice Factory to appreciate its labyrinthine charm, as well as understand how the historic industrial detail can be retained while at the same time be adapted it for profitable new uses. So there is now
available a downloadable walking tour which takes you inside the Ice Factory and shows the potential of its unique spaces.
The walking tour guide can be downloaded from
goo.gl/riS0JL
In other news, Kevin McCloud MBE, of Channel Four’s Grand Designs fame is a
the Membership, Operative, Finance and House Committees, as a director of B&ES subsidiary Piper Enterprises and as chairman of its training provider Building Engineering Services Training (BEST).
supporter of Grimsby Ice Factory.
He is the Ambassador for the World Monuments Fund Britain and you can see his comments about Grimsby Ice Factory on the ice factory’s home page
ggift.co.uk
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