Reducing Your Business Energy Costs and Carbon Footprint: Heat and Ventilation Innovations

Are you a small or medium-sized business in Cumbria looking to reduce your energy costs and carbon footprint?

Cutting costs where you can is important for any business, especially if you are a small or medium enterprise. Learn how to lower your energy costs, and lessen your environmental impact, through heat recovery and ventilation innovations.

Cumbrian SMEs are invited to attend this free interactive workshop as part of the ERDF-funded programme Eco-innovation Cumbria. You’ll be able to seek information about funded support, and enjoy a site visit to a local business that is looking at benefitting from utilising energy-saving initiatives.

The technical elements of the workshop will be led by Tim Gilmore of Gilmore and Stones Associates, with additional support from leading Cumbrian mechanical and electrical engineering consultants. It will be facilitated by Phil Davies, Low Carbon Development Manager at CAfS, Penrith.

At the workshop you will enable you to:

• Identify the challenges, and discuss and develop the solutions to heat recovery and ventilation in small and medium sized business settings.
• Network with other like-minded businesses
• Visit a business which is already benefitting from energy-saving innovations
• Learn how to lower energy costs and carbon emissions created as a result of your business activities
• Learn about the financial support available for low carbon investment
• Create better working environments for your staff
• Identify innovations in the energy-reduction market
• Share challenges and solutions around heat recovery and ventilation
• Seek future support from the Eco-innovation Cumbria programme

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is particularly suited to small food manufacturers, restaurants, hotels, laundries and any Small to Medium Sized Enterprise (SME)* in Cumbria with heat (air and water) and associated ventilation issues.

Will I get refreshments and lunch?

Yes, refreshments and lunch will be provided, with plenty of opportunities for networking. Free parking is available at Redhills.

Timetable:

8.30am-9.00am: Arrive. Refreshments. View exhibitions and networking

9.00am-9.10am: Introduction to the day

9.10am-9.15am: Activity: Who’s who in the room?

9.15am-9.25am: Share to solve: identifying delegates’ heat and ventilation challenges

9.25am-9.30am: Review of challenges

9.30am-9.45am: Common heating and ventilation inefficiencies: identification and assessment

9.45am-10.30am: Basic thermal principles of heat recovery and ventilation

Air to water / water to air and other forms of heat exchanger

Mechanical heat recovery

10.30am-10.45am: Refreshments

10.45am-11.45am: Site visit to local food manufacturer with heating and ventilation challenges.

11.45am-12.00pm: Review of Site Visit and opportunities

12.00pm-12.15pm: Indicative costs associated with heat recovery and ventilation (annual running costs / CO2)

12.15pm-12.30pm: Where to go to for further help and information

12.30pm-12.35pm: Financial support for low carbon investment

12.35pm-1.30pm: Lunch and Networking

1:30pm-2:30pm: Opportunity for plenary session with speakers, & exhibitors .

2.30pm - 3:00pm Networking

Speakers:

Tim Gilmore, of Gilmore Stones Associates

The workshop will be led by Tim Gilmore of Gilmore Stones Associates, one of the leading mechanical & electrical engineering consultancies in the NW of England. Tim is a chartered engineer, specialising in building services with practical application across a wide variety of settings, including residential, healthcare, commercial and public sector buildings. Tim has also worked as a Low Carbon Assessor and is a Registered Low Carbon Consultant with CIBSE. Tim has been responsible for specifying air distribution equipment for manufacturers, has been a mechanical design engineer on Westmorland Hospital, directed engineering services to Ribby Hall Hotel, completed refurbishment of the Lakeside Hotel, designed ventilation systems for isolation wards at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and designed chilling water systems for as far afield as a satellite tracking station in Bangalore.

Phil Davies, Low Carbon development Manager and Facilitator

Phil Davies has been a low carbon development manager at Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS) for over 15 years. He is the founder of the Cumbria Energy Auditors Group and has been responsible for establishing several successful community-owned renewable energy companies in Cumbria. He has previously served as a Trustee of Cumbria Business Environment Network, and served as a rural business adviser. Phil has already led several Eco-Innovation workshops for the University in 2018 – on electric vehicles for businesses and on replacing single use plastics.

Who is eligible to attend?

*This workshop is open to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in Cumbria that meet ERDF eligibility criteria: fewer than 250 FTE employees and turnover less than 50m euros or balance sheet total less than 43m euros. Under ERDF rules certain sectors are excluded including retail / haulage.

Further information

For further information, please contact Glyn Griffiths, Eco-Innovation Cumbria Project Manager:

glyn.griffiths@cumbria.ac.uk

We look forward to meeting you soon.