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Matt Roberts at Salix says: "This pilot is an excellent opportunity to work with our partners to ensure they are committed to providing a skilled and energy aware workforce, which will help us deliver against energy-efficiency targets now and in the future. It will also provide valuable lessons in advance of the Green Deal going live, giving added reassurances of both quality and service.
Clive Newton from Emanuel Whittaker adds: “Green Deal is an excellent fit for us, enabling us to bring our vast experience of quality and traditional skills into a modern green building environment alongside our valued clients and supply chain. Green Deal is a continuation of our commitment and progress to becoming a truly green builder, following naturally from achieving ISO 14001 last year and our construction carbon initiative to monitor and reduce carbons using the ConstructCO2 tool.
Emanuel Whittaker initiated a robust Green Deal preparation and delivery strategy early in 2011 with preparation activities across the whole of the business, that included awareness training for all staff, tool box talks for sites, a review of quality and environmental systems to meet the necessary PAS 2030 accreditation early in the new year, in addition to reviewing and addressing the energy performance of their premises.
Lee Bradbury, at Emanuel Whittaker, says that preparation for Green Deal, and PAS2030 in particular, is providing a huge opportunity to really look at all of the management, environment and safety systems and start working to combine them into an accredited integrated management system
Green Deal, the government’s flagship initiative to address energy performance of buildings in the UK, will deliver a potentially huge volume of eco refit work to homes and business premises commencing later this year. PAS 2030 is the stringent standard to which all Green Deal installers will be required to become accredited to by autumn 2012 to be part of the Green Deal.
Further informaton
Green Deal preparation work at Emanuel Whittaker and Salix Homes is supported by sustainability advisors Martin Brown and Phyllis Boardman at Fairsnape. Salix Homes is an arms length management organisation (ALMO) and is a not-for-profit company responsible for the day-to-day management of around 10,500 homes across central Salford, Rainsough Brow and Beechfarm. Oldham-based Emanuel Whittaker is a contracting specialist in the field of public sector regeneration, refurbishment, construction and conversion whilst retaining an active joinery manufacturing division.
Visit Emanuel Whitaker’s website for news and PAS 2030 pilot updates.
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2012 issue of Greenbuild on page 27. For a free subscription, click here.
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