Decarbonising estates is crucial to helping Higher Education institutions delivering on net zero targets. Estates are often dependent on gas, but transition is made complicated by the need to ensure constant availability and resilience.
Heat networks (whether an estate’s own or connection to a wider district energy network) can offer effective solutions but also bring their own challenges (including potential for regulatory compliance requirements and overlaps with existing hard and soft FM arrangements).
Our extensive experience of working with the Higher Education sector, combined with our expertise in the heat network, and retrofit sectors means we are ideally placed to support universities, colleges and other education providers on their paths to decarbonisation.
Our Points of Connection service provides free information for those who have, or are considering heat networks, and focuses, not only on district energy but also on the nexus between this and other priority areas for the education sector
There is perhaps nowhere where the delivery of decarbonisation is more relevant than for the education sector – students rightly expect that net zero is a priority. I really enjoy working with education providers to deliver innovative district energy solutions, knowing the benefits these provide for the institutions and those they serve
They have experience of representing the various different participants in large and complex projects in both the public and private sector giving outstanding insight into their different perspective, perception of risk and commercial drivers
We advised a major education provider on their connection to the Newcastle Helix heat network.
Our advice involved the negotiation and preparation of all associated energy documentation relating to the procurement, installation, commissioning and maintenance of the district energy network to multiple sites over a 40-year term.
Newcastle Helix is a £350m flagship city-centre quarter development with an innovative approach to heating, cooling and energy generation including 11kV smart grid, CHP, EV fuelling station, low carbon heating and solar PV.
The Helix scheme is projected to save 30,650 thousand tonnes of carbon over its lifetime and there are plans to transition the network to Net Zero Heat.
Join us for insights into the opportunities, challenges and practical considerations involved in delivering decarbonisation projects across the university estate.
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