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Q&A: Toby Marlow, John Lewis
Energy Demand talks to Toby Marlow, general manager of sustainable development at the John Lewis Partnership. What targets does the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) have to reduce its energy use? What we have is a 15% by 2020 absolute carbon reduction target, of which energy is a big part. Because it’s an absolute target based on our 2010 emissions, our growth programme is key to understanding the direction...
St. Faiths School: chalking up energy savings
Energy Demand speaks to Richard Brent, bursar at St Faiths School in Cambridgeshire and Charlie Cochrane, IT project consultant at Joskos Solutions, to get an educational perspective on energy efficiency. For many years, schools have had their budgets stretched in a myriad of imaginative ways. Securing the best staff, nailing funding for new facilities, keeping up to date with the latest technology...
Energy costs: finally on the radar?
Time to get energy prioritised in the boardroom? Here, BP’s chief scientist, Steven Koonin, speaks about the energy scene in the BP boardroom on 22 February 2005. With energy prices soaring at alarming rates, Energy Demand questions a select group of the top brass at the Energy Managers Association (EMA) whether energy is finally becoming a boardroom issue. For James Swanston, chief executive...
Pascal Mittermaier, Lend Lease “Energy Efficiency as Business Advantage”
Pascal Mittermaier, head of sustainability for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Lend Lease Energy Demand talks to Pascal Mittermaier, head of sustainability for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Lend Lease, the company that built and now manages the Bluewater shopping centre. We reported recently that you’re looking to cut the Bluewater energy bill by half. Can you explain what prompted that target? Like...
Bluewater aims to cut energy bill by half
Bluewater Shopping Centre at dusk The UK’s second biggest shopping centre is attempting to halve its seven-figure energy bill using technology from Anglo-American firm Sefaira. With an annual energy bill of £1.4 million, the owners of Bluewater say they intend to use Sefaira’s ‘Renew’ software to seek out inefficiencies and attempt to develop a capital investment programme that they hope will...