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One of Bosch Commercial and IndustrialIndustrial’s employees, Matthew Walton, has been named as the new chairman of the Combustion Engineering Association (CEA), a registered educational
charity that aims to impr ov e the under standing and development of the industry.
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Ham worth y Heating’s newest recruit, Vincet Ng, wil l be joining the company’s sales team and will cover centr al London, an area previously over seen by Gary Banham who has r ecently been pr omoted to senior area sales manager.
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orkshire company, Robinsons F acilities Services, has been appointed b y one of the UK ’s leading univleading univ ersities to maintain its portfolio of buildings for the 23,000 people who learn, liv e and work in them.
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government information and advice regarding ev ents in the UK, ACR New s publisher Datateam Business Media has tak en the decision to r eschedule the ACR News Awar ds.
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Sales growth and in vestment in electric heating, heat pumps, digitalisation and heat networks headline another successful year for the German family business.
www.viessmann.co.uk
Experts from Camfil have made a major contribution to an important new guide fr om the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE).
www.camfil.com
Condair has appointed Paul Kipp as area sales manager covering northern England and Scotland.
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Sky Refriger ation, founded in February 2010, has partnered with the Aspen Pumps Group.
www.aspenpumps.com
UK P ower Networks has outlined how it plans to help r educe the carbon impact of heating.
www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk
6 INDUSTRY HAS T he reaction fr om the
industry to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s, budget
announcements has been overwhelmingl y positiv e.
The Chancellor’s Budget statement confirmed the fol lowing funding commitments for Low Carbon Heat: • To intr oduce a levy on gas supplier s to support gr een gas injection to the grid. This will
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accelerate the decarbonisation of the UK’s gas supply, b y increasing the proportion of biomethane in the grid. • £100 million of e xchequer funding in total for 2022/23 and 2023/24 for grant -funding for
households and small non-domestic buildings, to instal l heat pumps, or biomass in limited circumstances, to replace f ossil fuel heating. This will form part of go vernment action to help build supply chains ahead of futur e measures to phase out high carbon heating.
• £270m for a Gr een Heat Network Fund to run from 2022 to 2025, follo w on from the Heat Network Investment Project. This new tar geted fund will ensure that heat networks adopt the most cost -effectiv e low carbon heat sourc es and will avoid locking in gas generation in the sector.
om 2022 to 2025, to Ahead of these schemes being established, the Budget
announcement has confirmed that the Government wil l: extend the Domestic Renewable Heat Inc entive (DRHI) for a y ear in 2021/22, maintaining support for heat pumps, biomass and solar thermal; and introduc e a third
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ation of T ariff Guar antees under the Non-domestic RHI (NDRHI). These will be available f or all technologies that have been eligible for the previous two allocations.
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The Heat Pump Association (HPA) has welcomed the Chancel lor’s
Budget, but warns ther e is still much work to do in order to meet the net zero carbon emissions target. Responding to the Budget,
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OFTEC chief executive, Paul Rose, said: “ Whilst the Budget contained a package of measur es relating to low carbon heat , the lack of support for home energy efficiency impro vements such as insulation and double glazing is conc erning. This is an urgent national infr astructure priority which should be placed ahead of further funding c ommitments f or roads and rail.
“The result of this omission is that government ’s approach to heat policy will continue, meaning many low- inc ome households carry on facing unnecessarily high heating bills. There is alr eady a significant danger that poor er households will be left behind in the rac e to net zero and this Budget only incr eases the chanc es of this happening.”
The Building Engineering Services Association (BES A) has welcomed the additional £175 billion infr astructure investment over the next five y ears and SME support measures as part of the government ’s response to the coronavirus crisis.
NathanWood, chair of BES A’s health and wel l-being in Buildings Group said these wer e positive
developments, but mor e w as needed on indoor air quality: “ Anything that helps make the outside air we breathe cleaner is welc ome, but most of us spend 90% of our time indoors. The Government could impro ve
indoor air quality by boosting funding to upgrade public buildings such as schools and hospitals to ensur e they are safe havens fr om pollution.” NIBE full y supports and welcomes the decision to accelerate the much- needed deployment of heat pumps in homes and smal l businesses. The announc ement of a new Low Carbon Heat Support Scheme was noted as particularly promising, given that this will see £100 million deliv ered through gr ant-funding in 2022 - 2024; this will make lo w carbon heating much more accessible for consumer s. The Construction Products
Association’s economics director, Noble Fr ancis, said: “Rishi Sunak’s first Budget rightl y focused on measures to steer the UK ec onomy through the impacts from the COVID- 19 (coronavirus) outbreak. It was nevertheless enc ouraging to hear the Government’s c ontinued commitment to infr astructur e and to ‘get
Britain building’. As ever with such announcements, however , clear and precise detail on where specifical ly spending will be allocated, ho w it will be funded and who will do the work will be critical for industry.”
It is clear that there is stil l room for improvement, but the response from industry leaders sho ws that this Budget is a significant step in the right direction.
TRADE BODYWELCOMES IR35 DELA T April 2020
he Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed the decision made yesterday by the Government to delay the start
date for IR35.
In response to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) the Government announced that the new off-payroll tax reforms (IR35), due to be extended to
R35 DELAY
medium and large businesses in the private sector in April 2020, will be deferred to April 6 2021 to help businesses and individuals.
BESA head of employment affairs, Paula Samuels, said: “This is a welcome reprieve for our members, many of whom are already suffering the effects from the financial and economic fall-out of coronavirus.”
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