COMMUNITY CHALLENGE Make a


difference to your local community in 2012


W


e are pleased to announce that BSEE and Baxi Commercial Division are once again collaborating to offer one lucky reader the chance to help out their local community by entering the 2012 Baxi Community Challenge.


The winner will receive a new ‘commercial- sized’ gas-fired water heater or boiler from Baxi Commercial Division, and could be any one of a diverse number of organisations from a scout/guide hut, a recreation field pavilion, a band hut, a youngsters’ football changing facility, a children’s arts and crafts recycling centre, a village museum, club halls and many more. But if you don’t put them forward we won’t know about them and they will miss out on this tremendous opportunity.


Entries are not restricted to registered charities and we would be happy to hear about any community projects where new space heating and/or hot water provision would make a real difference to the people using the building.


Baxi Commercial Division offers one of the broadest ranges of commercial high efficiency condensing boilers and direct fired water heaters, together with compatible low and zero carbon solutions, currently available in the UK.


Previous winners


This is the second year of the Baxi Community Challenge and the winner in 2011 was Hooley Village Hall in Surrey, who benefitted from the donation of products from Baxi Commercial Division.


Baxi Commercial Division has a vast range of technologies which could have been applied to this building, such as a solar thermal water heating solution, so that the village community could benefit from renewable energy savings in the future. However, given that the old boiler was a large domestic combi, the quickest and least disruptive option of a better performing, more powerful and more energy efficient replacement combi was chosen. A Baxi Duotec 40 combi boiler was therefore supplied which will adequately serve the existing radiators that heat the hall and cloakrooms and provide hot water for wash hand-basins in the toilets.


Speaking on behalf of the Hooley Village VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.bsee.co.uk


subsequent issues of BSEE before announcing the winner later in the year.


How to enter


Your entry should include the following: 1. The name of the cause represented together with the address, web address (if applicable) and a description of the building/location. 2. Details of the aims and work carried out by the cause and on whose behalf (in no more than 200 words) for example if it is a Scout or Guide hut or a village community centre and the activities which are held there. 3.


How long the cause has been


established. 4. How long the cause has had use of the existing building and its facilities. 5. Please state whether the facility has (a) Gas


(b) LPG (c) Electric only


Hall Community, a volunteer, Brian Richardson of Harris & Bailey Ltd, a local plumbers’ and builders’ merchants, said: “We are very happy indeed to be the recipients of a new boiler for our village hall. The building is totally funded by money raised within the community, mostly through organised events, and the building is run and maintained by volunteers. It is quite high maintenance because of its age and its type of construction.


“Originally built as an Air Force assembly point for the World War II Fighter Station at nearby Kenley Airfield in 1949, the building was purchased by the residents of Hooley and re-erected on its present site within the village. We rely to an enormous extent on the generosity of local business donating materials for repairs and replacement equipment but sometimes, as in this case, it is too big an ask or task and we are extremely grateful for help from outside. “The hall has been extended since 1949 and the original boiler has struggled to cope for a long time and needed constant attention. We had desperately wanted to


replace it with a modern, high efficiency model so we can reduce our fuel bills and carbon emissions.”


If you know of a worthy cause such as Hooley Village Hall then read on to find out how to enter.


Requirements for entry


Entry into the Baxi Community Challenge is very simple. All you need to do is send in your initial entry and leave the rest to us. Your application can be on behalf of any worthy cause that operates from a building which needs a new ‘commercial- sized’ gas- fired water heater or boiler however please note that the building must have a suitable gas supply – it may therefore be a good idea to ask the advice of a competent heating engineer for guidance when completing your application form (although this isn’t essential).


Please ensure that you provide all of the information which is requested below and then wait for us to contact you. Entries must be received by the end of March and we will feature some of the applicants in


6. Describe the existing heating and hot water systems and their performance (please let us know the current manufacturer, make and model as this will help us determine an appropriate replacement product). If you do not have an existing system then please state this in your entry. 7. State the reason why a replacement system would benefit the cause, and what difference new equipment would make (in no more than 200 words). 8.


Your name and address and full contact details including an email address. Please send your entry (one per reader)


to:


Tracey Rushton-Thorpe BSEE/Baxi Community Challenge Datateam Business Media Ltd 15A London Road Maidstone Kent


ME16 8LY


Alternatively you can email your entry to: trushtonthorpe@datateam.co.uk All entries must be received by no later than 31 March 2012. By entering you agree to your project being featured in BSEE if it is shortlisted or if it is the eventual winner.


So, what are you waiting for? In this age of austerity, why not take up the challenge in 2012 to help make a difference to a worthy cause in your community?


JANUARY 2012 BUILDING SERVICES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER 9


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