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What a chat over a cup of coffee can lead to
The Fit for the Future Network received the huge accolade of winning a Business Green Leaders Award in the Employee Engagement Campaign of the Year 2016 category. Our Project Officer Sophie accepting...
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Last major property in NT Wales getting off oil – Devil in the detail (again)
Penrhyn Castle biomass project is now into implementation and delivery, and as always devil is in the detail – in this case about 38 tonnes of detail with many wheels. Elgan the project manager’s first...
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What do you do with a broken PV panel. I have one!
Storm Desmond vs my 4kw PV system. Storm had a good go. Bracket must have got loose and the wind did the rest Desmond did the dirty on my PV system over Christmas. One of my PV panels has been...
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Old oil boilers have left the building at Barrington … Not as easy as you...
Quick update from Sarah Jack who is project managing the Barrington Court renewable heating project. How would you go about removing the old oil boilers from the cellar of a listed building? Bear in...
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Fit for the Future launches first progress report
We are very proud to present our first Progress Report, which celebrates the Network’s matchmaking success stories and reveals what our members have achieved this year. We have worked with 988...
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Is ISO14001 worth it?
Just finishing off the prep work for this years looming external ISO14001 Environmental Standard audits. Keith and I have been discussing the merits (or otherwise) of obtaining and maintaining our...
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REI programme team full steam ahead
Over the coming months we will be sharing guest blogs by our REI programme project managers. To set the scene Emma Griffiths is first up….. “The National Trust made a conscious commitment to becoming...
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Will Climate Change, change our landscapes..? Not as permanent as you would...
Nant Ddu (Nant Ddu means black stream in Welsh… currently not black) the mud, clay and silt is being washed down stream to the reservoirs. Will this become a more permanent feature of our upper...
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Dyffryn Gardens – work continues apace on the new heating system
I made my first visit down to Dyffryn Gardens after the Christmas break to have a look see how things were coming along. First off was a look at the heating project where we are replacing the ageing...
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Location, location, location…..biomass and Penrhyn Castle
Figure 1 – Penrhyn Castle during one of those rare dry and sunny days! Elgan is Project Manager for the REI programme at Penrhyn Castle. For his sins he has to share an office with Keith and I (who as...
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Mottisfont Abbey- The latest REI heating project.
Visitors in the garden at the south front at Mottisfont, Hampshire, in autumn. Mottisfont Abbey is one of the latest National Trust properties to begin work on a renewable heating system. Project...
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Dyffryn Gardens – A holistic Approach
Mansion emerging from the approach driveway There are times when I stop myself mid-coffee and think how lucky I am to be able to do what I do. Those of you who know me know I have spent years...
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….and how is my house doing? The weather is giving it a good test… i have had...
The good bit of the house. Infrared showing a fairly even heat loss across the building which is good after the external insulation. Can you tell the difference between upstairs and down stairs...
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Paris Climate Change #climatechange Day…something or other. News from the front
My time at COP was sobering, inspiring and thought-provoking. But above all rewarding. Fantastic people sharing and being hopeful. Interesting thought. In the middle of a disaster you normal don’t call...
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The end of the research phase of the European COMBINE project… success? YES...
Three years in the making the Combine project has now come to the end of its research phase. We were partners in a European project to look at the viability (economically, environmentally) of producing...
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Energy, water and waste champions celebrated at Environmental Awards 2015
Winners at the East of England Environmental Awards 2015, which had a coastal theme Wow, was it really a year since our first Environmental Awards ceremony? That said, an awful lot has happened in that...
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The more you look the more you see. Powis Castle. Perfect wild garden. Not...
Autumn has arrived at Powis Castle! …and without Photoshop to help it! I’ve spent most of the day recording a radio program with Iolo Williams and the team at Powis castle for the BBC. The program is...
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Sunshine in every cuppa at Bodnant Garden cafe
Enjoying a cuppa in the Tea Pavilion cafe are, from left, Tom Jones of Mini Muckshift; Gareth Jones of Carbon Zero; William Greenwood, Bodnant’s property manager; and Alex Turrell, the National Trust’s...
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Upton House goes green for victory
Guest blog from Edward Wood, project manager for the Upton House renewables heating project. Over to you Ed: Saving fuel was essential in World War Two and the new biomass system we are installing at...
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Wondering shells found in Criccieth. What do the tropics, MH370 and Criccieth...
our wandering shells On my hols’ with the kids on the beach at Criccieth and they come over bringing their prize which is a plank of wood covered in shells. To qualify.. stinking and covered in shells....
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