The sea provides the heat source for the Nibe heat-pump installation that meets the extensive heating and hot-water needs of a new marina building operated by Inverness Marina. These shore facilities provide visiting yacht crews with shower and laundry facilities. The building also includes a classroom area and the main marina office.

Jaguar Land Rover’s 365 ha Gaydon Centre site in Warwickshire has achieved a 21% reduction in operational CO2 emissions since 2007, despite significant work to extend its facilities. Contributing to these savings has been a Trend BEMS, which achieved energy savings of 4.3 GWH in the five years up to 2012 and 1674 t of CO2.

The new £12 million building of Pakefield High School in South Lowestoft was built according to low-carbon resource-efficient standards and now aims to maintain those standards throughout the building’s life with the help of a Priva building-management system.

With poor indoor air quality being estimated to cost two million healthy life years annually throughout Europe alone, Alan Macklin of Elta takes a look at the HealthVent project.

HEVAC president Mike Nankivell highlights the importance of filters to indoor air quality and why IAQ should be considered alongside energy efficiency.

Advances in boiler and water-heating technology over just 20 years impressed Tony Cella, site manager of Queensbury Academy in Dunstable when he embarked on an ambitious replacement programme in the west block — in the winter.

Tim Winter, head of engineering with professional-services firm KPMG, explains how completely overhauling how assets were managed and maintained brought very positive results.

Keeping up with legislation and the need to reduce energy demand and carbon emissions demands major improvements to existing buildings. Mike Goodwin sets the background for CIBSE’s new TM53.

Clients became transfixed by renewables after the Merton Rule, but it’s all about energy efficiency in these more pragmatic times, says CIBSE Patrons chairman David Fitzpatrick.