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Electrical apprenticeships offer best career opportunities A
new guide published by the Department for Education and the Institute for Apprenticeships
and Technical Education (IfATE) has highlighted the fact that electrical apprenticeships can offer some of the best career prospects for young people. ECA director of workforce and public affairs Andrew Eldred said: “This endorsement from the Department for Education and IfATE confirms what we in industry already knew. “An electrical apprenticeship isn’t just a popular choice. It also offers some of the best opportunities for an exciting and rewarding career – not least in delivering the UK’s Net Zero future.”
As well as providing a route to a lucrative career and skills for life, the electrotechnical sector is at the heart of the Net Zero transition. Mr Eldred said: “ECA Members and the wider
industry are overcoming obstacles and seizing opportunities to make low carbon living a reality – watch ECA’s flagship Leading the Charge video and podcast series to learn more.”
Schneider Electric releases new white paper and TradeOff Tool
BGEN transforms its HQ into a net zero building
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GEN, a specialist, multi-discipline engineering solutions business, has completed the transformation of its headquarters into a net zero building. The project has seen BGEN invest in some of the latest sustainable technologies as the company looks to achieve net zero status by 2035 at the latest. “As a business we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint as soon as possible,” said Oliver Groarke, head of future markets at BGEN. “This project has enabled us to lead from the front by showing tangible ways in which organisations can reduce their carbon footprint. As well as supporting our ongoing net zero efforts, the project has provided a great opportunity to implement new technologies which will be of benefit to our clients as they continue their own decarbonisation journeys.” The works, all undertaken in-house by BGEN engineers, included:
• Replacing the HVAC system; • Fitting solar panels;
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chneider Electric has released White Paper 281, ‘How Modern DCIM Addresses CIO Management Challenges within Distributed, Hybrid IT Environments’ and a supporting TradeOff Tool. The new White Paper focuses on Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software and takes a close look at the rapidly- changing role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) as IT has taken centre stage in the past few years.
The document demonstrates how the success of a CIO is rooted in a solid foundation of maintaining resilient, secure, and sustainable IT operations. In an environment of highly distributed hybrid IT, this goal becomes harder to accomplish. Patrick Donovan, senior research analyst at Schneider Electric’s Energy Management Research Center, said: “Business
requirements are forcing CIOs to hybridise their data centre and IT portfolio architecture by placing IT capacity in colocation facilities and building out capacity at the local edge – sometimes in a big way. “CIOs have always been tasked with managing and maintaining
resilient and secure operations, but generally have been focused on core data centre sites. Now, on top of having many more distributed sites needing resiliency and security, they are also being asked to report on the sustainability of their IT operations. This marks a real sea change in terms of their responsibilities.” In the 16-page paper, Mr Donovan describes the evolution of enterprise IT portfolios and explores the resulting management challenges. He explains how modern DCIM
software has evolved and is more optimised for increasingly distributed environments. Distributed IT makes security a top concern along with the need for improved resiliency and tracking and reporting of the IT operation’s environmental impact. The new Schneider Electric
TradeOff Tool – the DCIM Monitoring Value Calculator for Distributed IT – supports the White Paper and provides user-selectable inputs and adjustable assumptions to perform “what-if” scenarios to see the ROI/payback of monitoring software. It considers factors like downtime, staffing, security and environmental incidents, and cashflow.
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• Installing water reduction technologies; • Transferring electricity supply to an Ofgem certified eco-tariff; • Fitting LED lighting;
• Installing electric vehicle charging points; and • Setting up control and energy monitoring systems.
The above has enabled BGEN to eliminate all scope one and two emissions associated with the building.
BGEN offset all remaining scope three emissions (which in reality can only be addressed and lowered as new technologies become available) by supporting verified carbon reduction projects and planting 207 trees in the North-west.
Net zero status was certified by Tunley Engineering, a leading decarbonisation consultancy. William Beer, chief executive at Tunley Engineering, said: “BGEN has now implemented a range of carbon reduction strategies to ensure its headquarters is a net zero building. “We’ll be working with BGEN in the future as the company works to achieving its wider net zero ambitions as new technologies and ways of working become available.”
ECA, along with industry partners TESP and NET, encourages anyone considering an electrotechnical career to visit the electrical careers website and learn about the training opportunities available for young people.
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