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Sustainable Solutions for Carbon Reduction and Climate Adaptation

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Sustainable Solutions for Carbon Reduction and Climate Adaptation

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  1. Presentation to the South East Carbon Action Network 25 February 2011

  2. Summary • About USEA • Cocoon • Raising awareness through our training packages • Carbon Management & CRC • Feasibility Studies (incorporating renewables) • Affordable Warmth • Adapting to a changing climate

  3. Cocoon Fully managed insulation comparison and referral service FREE, fully managed, quality assured referral service FREE marketing resource and support FREE reporting on activity Measureable Carbon savings in your area Easy access to CERT funding for your area Integration with local grants and schemes Our service compares price, customer satisfaction and installation time to give householders an unrivalled choice of installers

  4. Training Services Climate Champion • We provided your staff tips and tools to reduce carbon emissions • They reduce your operating costs • Designed to produce actions specific to your organisation • Core modules provide the grounding, optional modules allow you choice to tailor to your needs • We come to you

  5. Training Services Climate Awareness • Compliments a network of champions where appropriate • Highlight ways in which savings can be achieved, both from the organisation and householder perspective • We come to you

  6. Carbon Management & CRC • Monitor and target reductions associated with buildings and vehicle fleets, including services that have been outsourced • Provide a carbon footprint for your organisation and produce action plans to reduce emissions • Ensure you meet CRC requirements & reporting deadlines

  7. Feasibility Studies • Cost effective review on required elements (building fabric, insulation, renewable technologies) • Full report on findings • Cost of recommendations including financial payback  • Environmental benefits including carbon reductions  • User issues associated with particular technologies  • Sources of funding to help pay for improvements

  8. Affordable Warmth • Local and regional networks • bring partners together • Strategies • Put strategies and policies in place with a bespoke strategy • Training • Front line staff and referral networks

  9. Your contacts • Dale Hoyland • Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire + Training • Mark Saunders • Hampshire, Berkshire + Business Development • Jan Deacon • Milton Keynes • Gio Bagordo • Completing EST 1 to 1 programme + Adaptation

  10. Plan for the risks and opportunities of a changing climate • Builds resilience, business continuity and adaptive capacity • Focuses interventions, saving time and money • Support in the development of a climate change continuity plan based on current and future vulnerability to specific weather events (Flood/Snow/Heat-waves) • Preparation and delivery of general awareness raising, scoping exercises & workshops • Helps to identify opportunities

  11. Thank you and questions Further contact: 01993 894 834 SES@usea.org.uk

  12. Low-Carbon Social Housingin Netherfield, Milton Keynes Our Study Identified and Recommended: The use of external insulation methods. The refurbishment of the building roofs and in particular the use of mono-pitch roof structures, to incorporate PV arrays. The use of a district biomass heating scheme. Funding now being sought for pilot study of these interventions.

  13. Renewables in New BuildsFor Housing Associations • Renewable technology appraisals for four new build developments for Cottsway Housing Association. • Demonstrating compliance with the requirements in the Code for Sustainable Homes. • Resulting In Successful Installations of Solar Thermal, GSHP, and PV. • Supporting the funding and tendering for identified technologies.

  14. Renewables For Municipal Buildings Providing Project Management for a large scale field trial of building integrated photovoltaic's. Providing access to government funding, securing the maximum possible contribution of £135,400. The scheme included two different types of solar technology with a combined maximum output of 23kW (Peak). Partnering with ECI to provide 2 years of post instillation monitoring.

  15. Community Engagement Case StudyParadigm Housing, Hayes, Hillingdon Borough of London • 24 ‘social housing’ dwellings, built to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 5. • Includes sedum roof, photovoltaic lighting, thermal efficient construction, heat recovery, rainwater harvesting, light tubes, and heating/hot water provided by communal biomass boiler. • Aim: engage, inform and inspire residents to become as eco-friendly as the homes they live in, and expand into the surrounding neighbourhood.

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