Trade figures based on data from September 2019, suggest there are a total of 1,277 hospitals in the United Kingdom; this includes both NHS Trust managed sites and private hospitals. Add on an extra twenty hospitals (the amount the government pledges to build) and that brings the potential total to 1,297 in the UK.
On 17th March 2020, Professor Andrew Geens, Head of CIBSE Certification, hosted a webinar presented by Sebastian Gray, Director at 2EA, on the topic of Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR).
Both our Energy in 2018 and Energy in 2019 articles gave detail to the number of changes that were taking place in the energy management sector; 2020 is a year that will see such legislation come fully into force.
The deadline for the permitting of Tranche A 5-50 MW generators with emissions of NOx above 500mg/m3 which operate for more than 50 hours a year is the 1st October 2019.
The new Environmental Reporting Guidelines, which come into effect from 1st April 2019, replaced the guidance on Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting (MGHG) that was contained in the previous version of the guidance.