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homeowner s across the UK to check their gas appliances in the run up to Christmas, with c arbon monoxide poisoning, gas fires and even e xplosions due to faults stems presenting
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in the heating systems presenting risks that may have remained dormant over the summer
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accelerate the UK’s progress in meeting its 2050 emission target was a focus of the opening day of Build2Perform Liv e, the flagship ev ent of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.
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Sevron is now the preferred pr ovider of chemical safety and risk assessment software for BESA. Its flagship pr oduct is a chemic al safety management softwar e platform and wil l be made accessible to over 1,000 members of BESA.
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The Viessmann Group has acquired the P olish company Kospel, a manufacturer of instant water heaters, electric water heaters, electric boilers and hot water storage tanks.
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Business leader for consumer insights at the Energy S y stems Catapult, Dr Matthew Lipson, has praised the ‘forw ard thinking and constructive’ gas industry for its work on ‘imagining a net zer o future without fossil fuels’.
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Envir oVent has donated a new gr eenhouse to St Mary’s Lodge, a sheltered housing development for over 60s in Scarborough, owned by Sanctuary Housing.
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22-y ear-old junior design and projects engineer, r, Charlie
Mustow, is joining the Maidstone- based Coolair Equipment as part of the firm’s e xpansion. www. coolair
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J&E Hal l has taken on six new apprentices in a drive to introduce new blood to an industry with a rising av er age workforce age.
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6 HEAT T UPDATES
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released updates to the legislation that applies to al district and community heat schemes in the UK.
he office for Product Safety & Standar ds, which is responsible for enfor cing the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations (HNMBR), eleased updates to the legislation that applies to al
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Speaking at a recent heat network compliance seminar, hosted by Switch2 Energy and Winckworth Sherwood, enforcement manager, Mili Malic, explained the latest regulatory changes. She also announc ed the next phase of heat network regulations consultation, which is now open and wil l close on December 12 2019.
Ms Malic briefed delegates on changes to the duty of notification process. This obligation affects all heat suppliers, who must inf orm the r egulator about their heat network scheme every four years.
One of the key changes is a r evision to the notific ation template that captures inf ormation about the loc ation of any district heat network or c ommunal heating scheme – as well as its capacity and supply figur es. Each building forming part of the network has to be identified, along with the number of customers using it and how they rec eiv e information from billing partners.
The Heat Network Regulations were first intr oduced in 2015, so 2019 marks the four-year c ompliance anniversary for thousands of heat network suppliers, who will now be required to r e-notify the regulator using the revised template. The current Heat Network Regulations consultation includes pr oposals f or a new cost-effectiveness tool to assess the viability of retr ofitting final customer meters to existing non-meter ed buildings. This requirement had been delay ed due to the challenge
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of constructing a robust feasibility tool. The c onsul tation includes proposals to extend the sc ope of current heat metering requir ements, with the aim of making further improvements to accuracy, maintenance and bil ling. Commenting on the announcement, Ian Al lan, head of market strategy for Switch2Energy, said: “W e welcome the consultation and are pleased to see that the regulator is making progress towards r olling out the methodology f or assessing the viability of fitting heat meters within individual dwellings.
“Modern smart meters ar s ar e crucial in ensuring fair
and transparent billing and pro viding the information customers need to budget and save energy. This r eal-time data also informs overal l heat network efficiency that can generate major performance improvements.
“When we introduce smart metering to heat networks that have previously used flat rate billing, we r egularly see energy costs fall by ar ound 40%. By gaining visibility of precisely how much energy they ar e using and how much it is costing them, customers tend to r educe their consumption, which benefits both their financ es and the environment. This behavioural change, however, is reliant on the availability of responsive heating contr ols, which often require improvement.”
Currently, the HNMBR make it mandatory to fit final customer meter s and point of entry meters in new build heat network developments and most major refurbishment projects. In addition, customer s must be billed using actual meter readings, rather than estimates, and billing information must be tr ansparent and informativ e.
BEST PERFORMING BUILDINGS SHORTLIST T
hree innovative schemes that have made the shortlist for the Chartered Institution of Building
Services Engineers (CIBSE) Building Performance Awards 2020 include the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, Manchester
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The Sweco Building, Bergen, Norway, and the Hitchcock Centre for the Environment, Amherst, USA.
Now in their 30th year, these annual awards recognise the projects, teams, individuals, products, innovations and initiatives that demonstrate engineering excellence in the built environment. Fundamental to the project categories is evidence of performance in operation: these built environment awards focus on the actual, in-use measured performance of completed projects rather than just on design.
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The 14 awards include two new categories for emerging priorities in the sector: Project of the Year - Retrofit; and Product or Innovation - Well- being. These reflect the importance of improving the safety, comfort and overall performance of existing buildings and also acknowledge the growing interest in the impact buildings can have on occupants’ physical and mental well-being.
The awards are judged by a diverse panel of experts and industry leaders from within the built environment. The quality of entries submitted this year made the judges’ task of arriving at a shortlist particularly challenging for some categories.
Hywel Davies, technical director at CIBSE chaired the judging. He said: “There were many excellent
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submissions this year; all of those who made the shortlist, either as individuals or as part of a team, should be justly proud of their contribution to improving building performance.”
The winners will be announced on February 11, 2020 at the awards event.
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