news 4 SPN AUG 2011 IndustryNews
CHANNEL 4 NEWS PUTS CALOREX IN THE MIDDLE OF CARBON REDUCTION TARGETS
Heat pump specialists Calorex found themselves in the middle of a high profile discussion on the future of carbon emissions in the UK when the company appeared on Channel 4 News.
The Essex manufacturing business was chosen by Channel 4 as being one of the beneficiaries of the announcement by Energy Secretary Chris Huhne that the UK was committed to halving carbon emissions by 2025, from 1990 levels, and changing the way that the country produces energy.
The TV news report highlighted the challenges which the UK faced in attempting to reach such targets. Mr Huhne had told MP’s the budget would “set Britain on the path to green growth”.
The Climate Change Act 2008 sets a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK by at least 80% on 1990 levels by 2050, and also requires the government to set carbon budgets – limits on emissions – for consecutive five-year periods. The programme reported that the targets provided an incentive for companies like Calorex which produces heat pumps which work ‘like an air conditioner in reverse.’
They use a small amount of electricity to harvest heat from the air or soil around your home. Calorex Managing Director Richard Carrington was interviewed at the factory and said: “Initially there’s going to be more training to do, more awareness and of course by creating the right supply chain through to consumer use, there will inevitably be an increase to our business opportunities.”
Heat pumps have long been acknowledged as the most economical and most environmentally friendly method of heating an outdoor swimming pool. The heat pump market has steadily grown over the past few years until the market is now both competitive and changing in terms of technology.
The Government’s carbon budget expects to see such products as heat pumps pushed even more aggressively in front of the consumer.
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POOL MAY NEED TO CLOSE – AFTER JUST THREE YEARS
A swimming pool which opened three years ago at a cost of £17.2m is in need of repairs.
A condition survey was carried out at the DG One complex in Dumfries after tiles fell from the inside walls of the main pool. Divers were sent in to carry out temporary repairs in a bid to stop any leaks.
It has been suggested that the pool may have to shut for several weeks while maintenance work is carried out.
Council bosses say they are
expecting the results of the condition survey later in the summer.
A decision will then be made on what course of action is to be taken. It’s not the first time DG One has been hit with problems.
In October 2009 a training pool had to close for around three months whilst a moveable floor was replaced. And the opening of the development itself was delayed by six months. Then, just weeks after it opened, tiles began coming loose in one of the pools.
HOTEL PAYS £56,000 AFTER POOL DROWNING
A ‘negligent’ Torquay hotel has been told to pay £56,000 after a guest drowned in its swimming pool. Rainbow International Hotel failed to check its pool was safe enough in accordance with health and safety laws.
Exeter Crown Court heard the swimming pool was unsupervised at the time and no written emergency procedures for pool incidents existed in the building.
Rainbow Hotel Ltd, admitted failing to discharge its duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Non-swimmer Suresh Nanduri, 28, of London, died after getting into difficulty in May 2008.
The court heard it took hotel staff up to three minutes to attend the pool after the alarm was raised, but Mr Nanduri could not be revived and was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
The company was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £21,000 costs. Presiding judge Mr Justice Field said: “The defendant did not appoint a competent person to assist in health and safety questions and had not at any time maintained any documentation relating to health and safety assessment in respect of hotel activities.”
The court was told Mr Nanduri, who could not swim, died after visiting the pool with friends. Prosecutor Malcolm Galloway said he got into difficulties after ‘walking backwards and then slipping backwards’ into the deep end. An inquest found the cause of death to be accidental. Mr Galloway said the pool was an old design inherited when the company took over the hotel in 2005.
The depth of water went from 1m in the shallow end to 2.5m, with a sloping gradient length of 3m. Seven months before the incident an environmental officer, Gareth Fudge, had visited the hotel and expressed ‘concerns in relation to the gradient of the pool’, Mr Galloway said.
“He was concerned to note that the gradient of the swimming pool between the shallow end and deep end appeared very deep.”
But crucially, the court was told, the officer did not recommend the pool floor be changed or ‘re- profiled’.
Counsel Andrew McLaughlin said: “The company accepts full responsibility for the failure to adequately address the risk posed by the gradient of this pool.”
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