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SEC unveils new Meeting Academy space


The Scottish Event Campus (SEC) has officially launched the latest addition to its award-winning conference offering; the SEC Meeting Academy. The facility is a £500,000 investment, and the newly created space is ideal for self-contained small to medium- sized meetings. Alternatively, the space can be integrated with the wider SEC conference facilities providing a VIP space for larger meetings. The SEC Meeting Academy features a


central 300-400 theatre-style capacity room and links with breakout rooms and networking spaces overlooking the concourse. Alongside the larger theatre


The Scottish Event Campus has launched the SEC Meeting Academy


space, the four smaller meeting rooms formerly known as the Seminar Suite are being upgraded in line with the new facility and form part of the SEC Meeting Academy. The new space acts as both a stand-alone conference offering, and as an additional provision for larger congresses. The area has its own contemporary colour palette and a fresh new identity.


Synergie Environ managing £3m 'green power' distillery project


Glasgow-based Synergie Environ is project-managing the installation of a £3 million anaerobic digestion (AD) plant for Inver House Distillers at its Balmenach distillery. The company, a specialist in AD engineering, has a long-established working relationship with Inver House, and it has worked hard with the management team over a number of years to help bring to fruition this exciting project, which will significantly reduce the site’s carbon footprint. Work has already started at Balmenach, one of Speyside’s oldest whisky distilleries and the home of Caorunn Scottish Gin, which is now set to become one of Scotland’s greenest distilleries, powered entirely from renewable energy sources. The anaerobic digestion system


breaks down the co-products of whisky production using micro- organisms to produce clean, methane-rich biogas to power the site. The new technology will


Four stars for Holiday Inn Glasgow Theatreland


Lisa Ruxton, Sales & Marketing Manager, Holiday Inn Glasgow Theatreland; Gerry Sharkey, Executive Chief, La Bonne Auberge; Marc Jones, General Manager, Holiday Inn Glasgow Theatreland and Kieran McGale, Restaurant Manager, La Bonne Auberge


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oliday Inn Glasgow Theatreland is celebrating after scooping four awards at the Scottish Hotel Awards,


Glasgow and Clyde Regional Awards. The hotel won the awards for Best 4 Star City Hotel of the Year and Informal Fine Dining. Lisa Ruxton won Sales & Marketing Manager of the Year and La Bonne Auberge’s Executive Chef, Gerry Sharkey, picked up Executive Chef of the Year. Founded in 2003 to recognise,


reward and encourage hospitality excellence in Scotland, The Scottish Hotel Awards are known as the national ‘Hotel Oscars’. As


Scotland’s leading independent hotel awards, they are the country’s only independently assessed recognition programme for both hotels and people of excellence. All awards winners are automatically


entered into the National Awards, which take place on 22 April 2018. The Holiday Inn Glasgow Theatreland first opened its doors in 1995 and has been consistently delivering and winning awards since then. The hotel has recently benefited from a multi- million pound investment and last year La Bonne Auberge won Best Hotel Restaurant of the Year at the inaugural Prestige Hotel Awards.


integrate with Balmenach’s existing wood-pellet biomass boiler, and once complete, the combined system will generate enough renewable steam and electricity to meet 100 per cent of the distillery’s energy requirements with a surplus of electrical energy supplied to the grid. Synergy Environ’s role includes all feasibility, planning, permitting, procurement and construction phases.


The construction phase of the Balmenach site


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