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As you might be aware already, the HeatingSave products are authorised by the UK Government on its Energy Technology List- an official endorsement and recognition that they meet the Government’s specific energy-saving or energy-efficient criteria. HeatingSave Building Energy Management Systems will now be even easier to find, as the UK government has launched an improved […]

As the first signs of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic are starting to appear, city governments worldwide are looking to accelerate an economic recovery from COVID-19 that enables people to get back to work, while preventing climate breakdown from becoming an even bigger crisis. One solution these bodies are looking into is investing COVID […]

Smart building management systems continue to represent a very important and growing trend in facilities management, as it’s expected to soar with a CAGR of 29.96% until 2023, a recent market research report has been able to suggest. A smart building is a structure which uses automated processes to control various building operations such as […]

Building management systems that carefully control all HVAC, lighting and heating systems within a building can help hospitals become a lot more energy efficient. And one of the latest examples of such a deployment comes from Gloucestershire, where the region’s largest hospitals have received £13.7million funding for a range of energy-efficiency projects. Aimed at hitting […]

According to recent estimates, 68% of the world’s population is likely to live in cities by 2050. As a direct consequence, world energy demand is set to increase by more than 50 percent by 2050, according to predictions by the US Energy Information Administration – resulting in even higher energy consumption. While an increasingly higher […]

Schools, libraries, leisure centres and cultural venues like the Theatre Royal in Newcastle will soon get a green revamp after the local authority secured £27.5 million in funding to decarbonise them, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The scheme is predicted to remove up to 4,050 tonnes of […]

The Industrial Decarbonization Strategy, published March 17, is part of the UK’s ambition to effectively eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy allocated more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) to projects that can help drive down emissions in hospitals and schools, as well as factories. The launch […]

Building management systems are the perfect solutions to help optimize energy use in hospital environments, and they’re especially efficient when installed from the earliest stages of construction or on the assembly line for modular buildings. In fact, this is exactly the case with a recent £9.8m project for Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation […]

Energy monitoring systems will help drive forward the development of smart buildings and cities across the world, which is an extremely important trend considering the fact that urbanisation is on the rise in every continent and figures set to climb close to 70% by 2050. In fact, the demand for buildings and cities to become […]

Aiming at helping UK SMEs access the education, expertise and opportunities for collaboration needed to meet or better the UK’s 2050 net-zero target, the Federation of Small Businesses, British Chambers of Commerce, British Retail Consortium and Make UK have joined forces to create the Zero Carbon Business Partnership, a recent news report has been able […]

A group of 90 tenants, landlords and property professionals from around the world have joined forces to set up the WiredScore Smart Council and launch a new smart building certification programme, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The SmartScore certification aims to provide clarity, definition and measurement for the growing smart building […]

A major energy efficiency retrofit programme aimed specifically at reducing energy expenditure in schools across Ireland has been recently announced by the Irish government. The government-funded energy retrofit Pathfinder programme will target energy use and CO2 emission reduction by 50%, testing deep retrofit and low carbon heating solutions. The 2021 programme will see six schools […]