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ou can’t fail to have noticed the growing movement against climate change, with the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ protestors causing chaos at various key locations in London and around the world. Whether you agree with their methods or not, they have certainly highlighted this crucial issue even further by generating plenty of national news coverage.


I think most people agree that we are facing a crisis and potential environmental catastrophe if we don’t act soon and do something to drastically change our lifestyles, reduce carbon emissions and clean up the environment. There’s no denying that we have seen the effects of climate change first hand, with hotter and drier


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summers and wetter and colder winters. However, stopping ordinary people from getting to work on public transport and bringing one of the world’s largest financial capitals to a standstill is unlikely to endear the protestors to the general public and could easily backfire.


As one of the largest energy users and therefore emission producers, the buildings sector is coming under increasing scrutiny and growing pressure to improve efficiency and help mitigate its role in causing climate change. And I’m pleased to say that this important subject has been at the top of the agenda and spoken about at length at every meeting, press conference and product launch I’ve attended recently. It is of course in all our interests to do as much as we can to improve


the environment for many good reasons, which includes commerce. It’s only through financially successful business that manufacturers are able to spend on the research and development that pushes the boundaries of technology and allows them to develop innovative new solutions to the various problems we face. Due to ever tightening legislation and the hastening pace towards becoming a low carbon economy, manufacturers are considering a growing range of environmental factors when launching new products. It’s not just the energy they might consume once in operation anymore, key features these days are also likely to highlight the energy used in a product’s manufacture, the materials chosen for construction, as well as it’s


overall lifecycle and recyclability. This is all very laudable and as an industry and a country, we are certainly heading in the right direction towards a much more energy efficient and sustainable future, but now we need other industry sectors and the world’s worst offending industrialised nations to get on board and follow our lead.


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4 INDUSTRY NEWS Latest news, industry updates and appointments


7 PUBLIC HEALTH Making public health a priority


8 CABLE MANAGEMENT Cable management’s next steps


9 CABLE MANAGEMENT Specifying for success: Choosing the correct cable specification


10 CABLE MANAGEMENT Getting educated on recycled PVCU trunking


12 FOCUS: MEDICAL &


HEALTHCARE Culture of collaboration


14 FOCUS: MEDICAL &


HEALTHCARE Relighting Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust


16 AIR CONDITIONING &


AIR QUALITY Thinking big: Titon launches its most powerful MVHR unit


20 BOILERS & HOT WATER Evolving the design


21 BOILERS & HOT WATER Ideal Commercial Boilers launches new Evomax 2


22 ENERGY MANAGEMENT How to get savvy about SECR


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23 ENERGY MANAGEMENT District heating is the future


24 BUILDING CONTROLS Staying in control of ventilation


25 BUILDING CONTROLS Creating one of the UK’s smartest and most efficient buildings


26 INDUSTRY COMMENT: BCIA Working towards a common goal


27 INDUSTRY COMMENT: ECA Zero Carbon by 2050: Pipe dream or possibility?


29 RESIDENTIAL & 31 RESIDENTIAL & 32 RESIDENTIAL &


SUSTAINABLE LIVING A sustainable approach to product lifecycle


SUSTAINABLE LIVING The advantages of using smart technologies in commercial buildings


SUSTAINABLE LIVING Triangulum sustainable cities project reaches successful completion


34 INSTALLATION NEWS 35 WHAT’S NEW?


41 WEB LOCATOR, RECRUITMENT & TRAINING 42 BUYER’S GUIDE


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