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 | | JET TAKES ITS LOW CARBON MESSAGE TO GOVERNMENT | | | JET Environmental | | 14/07/2008 | | | JET Environmental, a company which specialises in energy efficient HVAC systems is working with a parliamentary group to promote simple solutions which could significantly cut the carbon footprint of businesses.
Managing Director of JET, Robert Simpson, recently met with Clive Betts, MP, and board member of the All Party Urban Development Group (APUDG) to gain support for technology which is proven to provide a low carbon approach to heating and cooling large areas, like warehouses and distribution centres.
Robert Simpson says: “With businesses keen to reduce their carbon emissions, it will be as effective to promote the use of the JET system as it will be to enforce through building regulations. Companies like JET need the support of Government to get the message across. Our aim is to ensure people are aware of how they can reduce their carbon emissions when heating and cooling large spaces like offices and warehouses, as well as saving money and energy.”
“It makes sense to use technology which is already established, like JET, when planning or building warehouses especially when it works! If the Government puts its support behind technology like JET’s and encourages the use – rather than solar or wind technology, which have their drawbacks, carbon footprints would be vastly reduced, along with costs.”
JET Environmental specialises in low carbon climate control solutions for large volume, pharmaceutical, industrial and commercial buildings – from 2.5m to more than 40m in height and with a floor area of 1,000 m2 to over 150,000m2.
JET has recently completed the installation of its system in a new office building in Birmingham. It is the first carbon neutral serviced office building in the country. The HVAC system has been designed to reuse any waste heat in winter and more importantly, from an energy and carbon point of view, it uses large volumes of controlled fresh air to cool in summer. On the very hottest days it brings down the temperature of the building by purging the building with the much cooler night-time air.
Robert says, “We are still seeing new buildings being fitted with totally inappropriate heating systems which take no account of the need for ventilation. There are very simple and well established solutions that could significantly reduce carbon footprints. These solutions need to be supported by the likes of the Carbon Trust and the Enhanced Capital Allowances. I plan to meet with Clive again, along with other members on the APUDG committee at Westminster in the next couple of months, in order to discuss JET’s involvement further. It will be great to talk to other people about the JET system and ultimately, hopefully, make a difference.”
“If it is to be believed that between 40-80% of businesses' carbon comes from heating and cooling, then organisations, both private and public, should be looking at their heating and more importantly cooling as the easiest way to make a big reduction in carbon,” he adds. | |
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