Getting a warm feeling from the use of waste heat
About 20 years ago, I found myself standing on a gantry overlooking a couple of industrial refrigerators in a small, independent fruit processing factory. The...
Marks & Spencer’s Living Wall Comes to Life
Mar 30, 2015
It was my forty-mmmth birthday yesterday and I had a lovely day – breakfast in bed, pub lunch, birdwatching (yellow hammer, willow tit, water rail...
Heat from dead people? Why not?
Feb 7, 2011
Here is a topic that is getting me fired up. Redditch Council will decide tonight whether to approve a scheme to capture waste heat from...
A new start for district heating?
May 8, 2009
According to the ENDS report, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has commissioned a report on district heating in the UK, which accounts...
Weekly Tip #15: Cold Comfort
May 27, 2008
This is the fifteenth in a series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book:If you have cold rooms/refrigerators, make sure doors are...
What is Heat?
Feb 4, 2008
An interesting juxtaposition of headlines on edie last week:On Thursday: Academic blasts Government's green construction rulesOn Friday: Government wants tips on 'renewable' heatingMaybe Jo Williams,...
Why don’t we do district heating in the UK?
Dec 3, 2007
I was giving a presentation on Sustainable Construction on Friday to a group of Local Authority energy managers. I mentioned Kalundborg in Denmark where the...