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Ashden Awards 2015 - winners announced |
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12 Jun 2015, 3:14 PM
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The winners of the 2015 Ashden Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at the Royal Geographic Society hosted by broadcaster Emma Freud. The keynote speaker was Kandeh Yumkella, CEO of the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
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Max Fordham and Demand Logic were presented with the top UK awards for their pioneering work in promoting low carbon and sustainable buildings. Max Fordham won the Ashden Gold Award and the Ashden Award for Sustainable Buildings, supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation. Demand Logic won the Impax Ashden Award for Energy Innovation. Islington Council's SHINE initiative won the Ashden Award for Reducing Fuel Poverty, supported by the Coutts Foundation, and Welsh firm TGV Hydro won the Ashden Award for Community Energy, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Max Fordham
UK Gold Award and Ashden Award for Sustainable Buildings, supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation
Max Fordham has spent nearly 50 years developing sustainable building services, working closely with architects to create beautiful buildings with the highest standards of energy efficiency. The results are impressive: clients are able to cut their carbon emissions by up to 50% through increasing natural light and ventilation and installing energy-efficient equipment and insulation. The company has also pushed the concept of ‘soft landings’, working closely with occupants to make sure their new buildings work as efficiently as possible, and helping tackle what’s often a huge gap between the way buildings are designed and how they are actually used.
Demand Logic
Impax Ashden Award for Energy Innovation
Mining the information generated by most building management systems (BMS) found in large commercial buildings is usually like looking for a needle in a haystack. Many businesses waste huge opportunities to save energy and money. But Demand Logic has created a cloud-based system that plugs into the BMS and quickly identifies what it describes as ‘energy insanities’, like rooms being heated and cooled at the same time, or faulty equipment. Demand Logic then works with the building management team to develop a plan to fix them. This can generate huge savings: one of Demand Logic’s clients, Kings College in London, has cut an estimated £390,000 off its annual energy bill.
London Borough of Islington: SHINE
Ashden Award for Reducing Fuel Poverty, supported by the Coutts Foundation
Living in a cold, damp home makes respiratory illnesses and many other chronic health conditions worse. The London Borough of Islington’s Seasonal Health Intervention Network (SHINE) links up 86 local organisations in an integrated approach to tackling fuel poverty and improving the wellbeing of its most vulnerable residents. Member organisations, from GP surgeries and health visitors to housing and community organisations, refer vulnerable people to the SHINE team. The team then steps in with advice on fuel debt and energy efficiency, as well as helping residents access discounts on fuel bills and grants for new boilers. With residents saving an average of £200 each on annual fuel bills, SHINE is also easing the pressure on local health budgets
TGV Hydro
Ashden Award for Community Energy, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
With an abundance of hills and streams, rural Wales is the ideal location for generating sustainable electricity from hydro power. But many potential sites are too small for the big hydropower developers to touch. TGV Hydro, wholly owned by The Green Valleys CIC, is filling this gap. It’s developing micro-hydro projects for private and community ownership across South Wales, working closely with the local authority to create a model of micro-hydro that could be replicated elsewhere. Local labour is used to build projects where possible, and TGV has helped a new manufacturer of hydro turbines to start up. The renewable electricity generated can be sold into the national grid, so farmers and communities can diversify their income
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