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Creating low carbon supermarkets
mission summary
Supermarkets are an established part of everyday life and are so big that many reports suggest they currently consume approximately 5% of the UK's annual energy consumption.
MITIE Energy is supporting The Low Carbon Supermarkets Network with the aim of identifying and working with skilled partners to create simple innovative solutions that can maintain the supermarkets' bottom line revenue whilst reducing environmental impact.
Other members of this network will include renewable energy technologists, IT integrators, HVAC technology manufacturers and installers, refrigeration specialists, quantity surveyors, financial investors, environmental consultants and academics.
If you would like to join this network and support MITIE Energy in its mission to make buildings, and their facilities, smarter, greener, safer and better run, we would welcome your company.
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Martin Faheysample network resources
| 24 Dec 2008 |  |
Does your Air Conditioning System comply?As of January 4th 2009 if the building you own or occupy has an air-conditioning system above 250 kW installed it will be required to be inspected by an accredited Low Carbon Energy Assessor under the EU's Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD). Those over 12kW must be inspected by January 2011. Regular ongoing inspections of this system (maximum of every 5 years) will also be required. |
| 07 Oct 2008 | |
Boiling with Refrigerants and NanolubricantsIs it possible to improve refrigerant/lubricant boiling with nanoparticles? If so, what size of particles should be used? What's the particle material and in what concentration should they be applied to obtain the best improvement in performance? These are some of the questions that are currently driving the refrigerant boiling with nanolubricant research at NIST. The presentation will share what has been learned, including very recent results at NIST in this ongoing investigation. |
| 06 Oct 2008 | |
John Lewis CSR reportJohn Lewis outline their CSR performance for their 2008 report. The report centres around their commitments to: - Climate change- Packaging, waste and recycling- Building and operating sustainable shops- Supplier relationships- Sustainable products- Supporting its communities |
| 06 Oct 2008 | |
Waitrose CSR ReportWaitrose outline their CSR performance for their 2008 report. The report centres around their commitments to: - Climate change- Packaging, waste and recycling- Building and operating sustainable shops- Supplier relationships- Sustainable products- Supporting its communities |
| 06 Aug 2008 | |
Natural Refrigerants in Supermarket SystemsWith the growing attention on environmental concerns, and particularly the issues of ozone depleting and global warming substances associated with refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, the company Earthcare Products Ltd was set up to respond to the resultant demands of the market. Founded in October1997, Earthcare provides advice, products and services that are progressive in terms of energy efficiency, sustainability and low environmental impact. The services and products are aimed at end-users who are investing in systems that must anticipate evolving building regulations (such as the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EPBD), companies whose properties need to score highly with green-building ratings (such as the BRE Environmental Assessment Method, BREEAM; http://www.breeam.org/), or for companies with enlightened environmental CSR requirements. |
| 06 Aug 2008 | |
The Development of Low Energy Integrated CommerciaThis paper describes the work carried out between April 2004 and September 2005 under the title "The Development of Low Energy Integrated Commercial Refrigeration Technology". The project brief was to investigate a new supermarket refrigeration concept named the "Integrated Chilled Water Loop" or ICWL and to compare its performance to refrigeration systems described in an EA Technology study. This involved constructing a supermarket refrigeration test rig, choosing a refrigerant, monitoring the performance of the test rig and comparing it to that modelled in the EA Technology study. The ICWL is effectively a cascade refrigeration system consisting of a water chiller and a chilled water loop which cools low temperature and high temperature condensing units which in turn provide the store refrigeration. Five refrigerants were compared, the first being the synthetic HFC refrigerant, R404A. The rest were natural hydrocarbon refrigerants. The best performance was obtained from a previously untested hydrocarbon blend. This performed, in one case, 20.5% better than R404A. In comparison with the EA Technology models, the ICWL system was seen comparable in performance to an optimised DX system and "System 2", a refrigeration concept similar to the ICWL. It was shown that with an optimised chiller, the ICWL could exceed the performance of these systems. |
| 16 Jul 2008 | |
NY Carbon Footprint Consumer Products Summit 200815-16 September, Times Square, New York Identifying and Managing the Environmental Hotspots of Carbon, Waste, Water and Energy in the Supply Chains' of Different Consumer Product Lines. www.carbonfootprint-environmental-supplychain.com |
| 23 May 2008 | |
Is a 15% cut in carbon emissions enough?Supermarkets have joined together and with other retailers to make a joint pledge on tackling climate change, including specific targets on some of their carbon dioxide emissions. |
| 06 Apr 2008 |  |
Mission impossible or just damn tricky?Being sustainability director for a supermarket chain could be many people’s idea of mission impossible. The role demands a mastery of the environmental implications of so many others, each of which alone is fiendishly complex. |
