ENERGY SAVING EQUIPMENT
Keeping it simple can bring COP goals closer
The COP26 Conference got the world focused on alternative sources of energy, but we can make even faster progress by getting back to the basics of tackling energy efficiency in existing buildings, according to Josh Emerson, head of marketing at Swegon UK&I.
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hile the eyes of the world were focused on Glasgow and the gathering of heads of state to thrash out climate change agreements, our industry spent two days looking in more detail at what specific steps we could take to move long-term carbon reduction targets closer to reality.
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) National Conference took a deep dive into some of the specific engineering challenges framed by COP26 and found that many of the solutions are surprisingly straightforward. During his keynote address that launched the Conference, the TV star and architect George Clarke called for "a global retrofit revolution” powered by fiscal incentives including the
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abolition of VAT on the restoration and conversion of existing buildings.
There is plenty of noise and excitement around the emergence of new technologies including hydrogen-powered systems and carbon capture, but many of these remain some way off. What Clarke highlighted was the importance of keeping focused on so-called ‘low hanging fruit’ such as energy efficiency and improving the performance of existing technologies – things that we are already doing but can do better and faster.
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