Andy Durber
Director
IGEM

Andy Durber started his career with British Gas in the early 1980’s in the former West Midlands Region. He held various positions within the company starting with his routes as a ‘Gas Service Engineer’ then moving on to the Training & Development Department and finally was involved in the development of several of British Gas Services National Operating Procedures. After leaving British Gas Andy became actively involved in a number of projects in the Gas Industry working as a consultant for a number of large Social Landlords, Training Providers and Certification Bodies. Andy was jointly responsible for the formation of Blue Flame Associates Ltd. in 2000 and is currently the Director responsible for the Consultancy Services arm of the company that looks after a range of activities for the Building Services Sector including developing Contract Documents, Contract Management and Quality Auditing to name but a few. Expanding on this existing business in 2004, he is also a Director of Blue Flame Certification Ltd. one of the limited number of UKAS Accredited Certification Bodies in the Building Services Sector.

Andy is an Engineering Technician for the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM).

In addition to chairing all IGEM’s Panels for Strength Testing, Tightness Testing & Purging (IGEM/UP/1, UP/1A, UP/1B & UP/1C) Andy is a member of IGEM’s Gas Utilisation Committee. He also sits on a number of other Technical Committees within the Gas Industry including British Standards Institution Committees for Pipework, Flues and Ventilation and has recently joined the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedures Committee.

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Bill Brady
Electrotechnical Specialist
EAL

Brendan McGarry
Head of MCS Scheme
Gemserv

Bruce Allen
Chief Executive
HETAS

Bruce Allen is the chief executive of HETAS, the official body for solid fuel and biomass in the UK. HETAS runs a government authorized competent persons scheme for installers, alongside schemes for microgeneration certification, equipment approval and fuel quality. They are the only competent persons scheme specializing in solid fuel and biomass.Bruce has a strong background in the industry, having originally worked in the gas industry as a service engineer. He has also run his own plumbing and heating business before taking on roles with CORGI and OFTEC, and then joined HETAS as Chief Executive in 2006. He is a founder member of the Competent Persons Forum, and is involved with reviewing building regulations which are relevant to the solid fuel and biomass industry. He is also a steering group member of the Microgeneration Certification Scheme, and is also involved with government helping to implement their microgeneration strategy.

Bryan Glendinning
Chairman
Grant Aided Installer Network (GAIN)

Bryan is a passionate business leader, who is enjoying his eleventh year in the fuel poverty arena, after serving his contracting and management apprenticeship in the construction industry. He originally started his career in fuel poverty with Eaga Plc in a Senior Management role. Working closely with installers, stakeholders and Government departments to ensure that expectations with regard to Warm Front targets were not only achieved, but exceeded and he puts this success down to great teamwork from the whole of the industry. In recent months he has taken on the exciting role of Managing Director of Cre8 Group, with strategic plans to maximise the renewable opportunities presented by Government, with such schemes as Fit, RHI and the Green Deal. As Chair of GAIN he is hoping he can continue the great work done to date by the organisation and lead the management board in propelling the association and the industry to be market leaders in the decarbonisation of the UK housing stock.

Charlie Browne
Environmental and Sustainable Development Manager
IKEA

Charlie Browne is IKEA UK's Environmental and Sustainable Development Manager. He has worked in the field for over a decade with the main focus being store operations, including waste management, energy conservation and resource efficiency. After joining IKEA Charlie worked in the Risk and Health and Safety area before his interest in environmental matters brought him into Environmental Management for chain. His current priorities are the implementation of renewable energy into IKEA buildings and green travel plans for all units. Prior to joining the Swedish firm, Charlie was a member of the armed forces and a specialist in security and risk management

Chris Adey
Chief Executive
ADEY Professional Heating Solutions

The company’s success is built on product innovation and quality along with a genuine understanding of the practical and daily working needs of the professional installer.
Under Chris’s direction, the company has gone from strength to strength and established a reputation as the pioneering force behind magnetic filtration within the industry. Along with a commitment to working closely with installers to develop new ideas, the company has invested heavily in R&D and an impressive range of products has evolved in recent years.
As Chris Adey puts it, the process is a simple one: "British installers are the best in the world at what they do. They generally have great insight into what will work. All we do is listen to the needs of the market and the ideas follow..."

Chris Miles
Managing Director of Econergy and Director
Renewable Energy Association

Econergy is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of wood fuelled boilers, biomass energy services and district heating solutions. Econergy had sold over 500 biomass heating projects and received a substantial investment from Centrica plc (British Gas) in 2009. Chris has been working in the biomass energy sector since 2005 following nearly 20 years in a variety of business and engineering management roles in the international process and energy sectors. Chris is also on the board of the Renewable Energy Association and a director of Midland Wood Fuel Ltd, a leading regional wood fuel supplier. Working with the REA, Chris has played a leading role in the development of public policy for biomass heat over the past 4 years. This includes substantial input into the design of the Renewable Heat Incentive and air quality legislation.

Ciaran Burns
Certification Team
REAL Assurance

Colin Gardner
Managing Director
Glen Dimplex

Daniel Greenall
Microgeneration Technical Officer
Energy Saving Trust

As the Microgeneration Technical Officer at the Energy Saving Trust, Daniel is responsible for providing in-depth technical support on renewable and low carbon technologies to the organisation’s extensive advice centre network. This involves direct contact with customers looking for technical guidance on a number of different topics, and enquiries from installers in the Wales region looking for further support. Typical enquiries include technical questions on the Feed-in Tariff, other government incentives and in-depth enquiries on microgeneration technologies.

Having joined the Energy Saving Trust in 2008, Daniel has worked on a number of projects including regional supply chain support in Wales for those companies looking to diversify into the renewable and low carbon sector. The aim of the project was to develop the Microgeneration industry in Wales by encouraging and assisting installers to become MCS certified through direct consultation.

Through his role as the regional microgeneration coordinator, Daniel was a key member of the team responsible for developing a network of certified installers in Wales and building knowledge, insight and understanding of the microgeneration sector. Having successfully organised MCS installer seminars around Wales and supporting over 60 companies through certification, the project has progressed into its second year and continues to support SME’s in Wales looking to diversify.

Darren Staniforth
National Training Development Manager
NICEIC

Darren started his electrical life as an apprentice electrician in 1995 at a contracting firm completing domestic, commercial and industrial installations. After completing his apprenticeship Darren moved to Bedford College to complete his higher education and qualify as a lecturer. Darren delivered the then City & Guilds 2360 and NVQ 3 electrical qualifications to apprentices across Bedfordshire.

He decided to change career paths again and took a job with one of the largest domestic new home electrical installers north of London as a QS and Contracts Manager. Darren was directly responsible for projects up to £2m and a work force of around 75.

Moving back to Bedford College some years later Darren helped them design, develop, run and managed their short course provisions including the City & Guilds 2381, 2391, and PV.

Darren joined the NICEIC in 2006 as an Operations Engineer, assisting the Group with all technical matters ranging from the technical helpline to attending meetings regarding National Occupational Standards in the industry. His new role as Technical Development Manager see’s Darren attend NICEIC events and TechTalks to assist in the delivery of the future of NICEIC. Darren’s close working relationship with City & Guilds allows NICEIC to have an input into the future training of the up and coming apprentices.

Dave Sowden
Chief Executive
The Micropower Council

Dave Sowden is the Chief Executive of the Micropower Council, which he set up with Lord Ezra in 2004 with the aim of bringing together utilities, manufacturers, retailers, installers and trade associations to promote microgeneration technologies in the UK.

Dave Sowden is also an experienced director in regulatory and public affairs with close to 20 years’ experience in the energy industry and an outstanding track record in obtaining changes in UK and EU legislation and regulation. He is a sustainable energy expert and played a pivotal role as a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board for a number of years shaping key aspects of UK energy policy, especially in the microgeneration sector. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors, Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Energy as well as having achieved a first degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a MBA from Warwick Business School.’

David Byers
Executive Director
UK Rainwater Harvesting Association

David started his career in telecommunications completing his apprenticeship for Plessey Telecommunications in Liverpool. After graduating he began installing telephone exchanges for British Telecom in the South West before transferring back to Liverpool to work on the next generation of digital telephone exchanges called System X. After 13 years with Plessey David moved into more commercial roles in low voltage switchgear, aerospace and defence markets, where he worked on high performance thermal circuit breakers for the Harrier VTOL and Main Battle Tanks. He then began to work within the automotive market, managing accounts such as Jaguar and LandRover. David started his own company offering his experiences to help other companies develop new products and enter into a new market, this has allowed him to experience various sizes of businesses and products. More recently David has been working with companies working in the environmental market offering products such as Solar P.V, Solar Thermal and Rainwater Harvesting. This led David to the UK Rainwater Harvesting Association where his brief is to raise awareness of Rainwater Harvesting as an environmentally sustainable technology and highlight its many benefits. David is also developing a national training network to offer certified training on Rainwater Harvesting systems to help with the continued growth in the competence and professionalism of the industry.

David Cowburn
Managing Director of Standards
National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT)

David Cowburn is Managing Director of NAPIT Standards Division. NAPIT are one of the fastest growing certification bodies involved in the registration of electricians, heating engineers, plumbers and ventilation engineers through the Building Regulations Competent Person Schemes. For the Microgeneration Certification Scheme NAPIT’s register has exceeded 1000 installers covering photovoltaics, wind turbines, micro-CHP, solar heating, biomass and heat pumps.

A mechanical engineer, David has been involved in the energy sector for over 25 years, starting out in the coal industry and progressing through research into biomass and CHP systems before moving into product certification, systems auditing and competence assessments. He is the Chairperson of the Competent Persons Forum and sits on the MCS Steering Group as well as other committees advising government and schemes on assessment systems and strategies for the energy sector as a whole and Building Regulations, microgeneration and the Green Deal in particular.

 

Don MacFadyen
Invensys
TACMA

Francis Bean
Assistant Technical Manager
Energy Saving Trust

Frances is an Environmental Science (BSc hons) Graduate and has worked at the Energy Saving Trust for over a year, managing delivery and development of the EST's heat pump and solar thermal field trials. Frances has also assisted in the development of new field trials and assurance programme for low carbon technology.
Prior to joining the Energy Saving Trust Frances worked as a policy advisor and project manager at the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Frank Bertie
Technical Standards Director
NAPIT

Gideon Richards
Chairman
The MCS Scheme

Gideon Richards is the Chief Executive of Consulting With Purpose Ltd a UK based renewable energy and sustainability consultancy. Gideon has consulted across a wide range of industry sectors, for both large and small organisations as a change management, business development and environmental management consultant. Over the last 5 years he has spent an increasing amount of time working with clients on biomass related projects such as assessing the financial viability of major projects, resource identification and fuel supply chain development, quality assurance and standards work. Gideon sits on a number of UK and European technical committees for the development of standards for Solid Fuels and Solid Recovered fuels. He is currently the chair of the BSI's Technical Committee for Solid Biofuels and Solid Recovered Fuel Standards and will soon be involved with the start up of the CEN/ISO TC238 Solid Biofuels Standards and the Biofuels Sustainability Standards. Gideon was the first Chair of the Steering Group for the UK’s Microgeneration Certification Scheme and has recently been appointed Interim CEO of the MCS.

Gordon White
Trainer
Euroheat

Gordon joined the industry in 1987 as a registered installer. He progressed to installation manager, managing installation teams, fitting fireplaces, gas and solid
fuel fires, stoves and boilers before joining Euroheat in 1999 as Technical Manager/Training Officer. Gordon has been involved in preparing and delivering many of the Euroheat Training Programmes since that date. In 2004 Euroheat was appointed an OFTEC training centre with Gordon heading up OFTEC courses. Gordon was HETAS registered in 1997 and since has been appointed as a HETAS training officer, capable of providing most stove and biomass courses.

Grace Bennett
Head of Policy
The Micropower Council

As a business strategy consultant, Grace gained experience of a number of different industries, ranging from food and beverage to aerospace logistics and chemical engineering. In this role, Grace carried out in-depth research into specific sectors, assessed business opportunities available to clients, provided data analysis and undertook competitive intelligence gathering in a range of European countries. Grace was one of the first students on the ground breaking 'Cardiff-Bordeaux Joint Degree Scheme'. This is an innovative course which allows students to obtain a BSc Econ in Politics from Cardiff University, as well as a Masters degree specialising in the politics of European integration from the prestigious Sciences Po in Bordeaux (one of nine Instituts d'Etudes Politiques in France). Grace joined the Micropower Council in October 2008, having previously worked with a business strategy consulting firm. After her successful role as policy and communication manager Grace progressed to Micropower’s Head of Policy, she provides vital policy input for the MPC’s political campaigns enabling member’s voices to be heard where it matters.

Graham Ashworth
Consultant
Envirolink

Hugh Jones
Technical Product Manager Renewables
Viessmann Limited

My name is Hugh Jones and I  work as Product Manager Renewables at Viessmann Limited.

After qualifying  as a Mechanical Engineer in 1982, my career has taken me across Europe  in jobs as diverse as English language teacher and European Patent Examiner.
 Settling down in England in 1996, I started work with Viessmann as a technical sales engineer.

For the last 15 years at Viessmann, I have worked predominantly in the Technical Department with my first contact with  renewable technologies starting in 1997 when Viessmann introduced its first solar thermal collectors to the UK.
Since then, I have been closely involved with the launch and support of the expanding renewables portfolio at Viessmann, which now covers solar thermal, solar photovoltaics, heat pumps and biomass.

Now, as Product Manager, my responsibilities cover, amongst other things, product specification, accreditation , training, technical support and system specification.

Ian Cuthbert
Microgeneration Advice Manager
Energy Saving Trust

Ian Kenyon
Residential Product Manager
Solar Century

Ian has responsibility for Solarcentury’s Products and Services supporting the Residential sector, including solutions for New Build and retrofit installations. Ian Joined Solarcentury in 2005, leading the project to develop Solarcentury’s award winning C21e Tiles and Slates. Ian’s previous experience includes B2B Product Management and Development roles within the Telecomms industry.

Ian Mitchell
Product Marketing Manager
Vent-Axia

Vent-Axia is the UK’s leading supplier of MVHR (Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery) as well as centralised and de-centralised MEV systems into the New Build market. Ian Mitchell has been with Vent-Axia for five years and is Product Marketing Manager with responsibility for the New-Build Residential sector.  

Working with TEHVA (The Electric Heating and Ventilation Association) and the RVA (Residential Ventilation Association), Ian was instrumental in developing the BPEC training programme for Domestic Ventilation Systems and now runs the training modules at Vent-Axia’s headquarters based in Crawley.

With more than 20 years in manufacturing, Ian has a wealth of experience from a number of different companies including BAXI, Pirelli Cables, Creda and the Glynwed Group.

Ilias Vazaios
Policy Adviser
The Micropower Council

Ilias Vazaios joined the Micropower Council in June 2011. He has an academic background in EU politics and business management including an MSc in Management from CASS Business School in London. Over the past five years, Ilias gained significant experience in energy public affairs having held relevant positions in the European Commission Delegation in Washington, the European trade association for cogeneration (COGEN Europe), the office of a global public affairs group in Brussels and an international environmental NGO. Ilias brings to the MPC a far and wide knowledge of the EU public policy arena and substantial experience in the organisation and implementation of highly effective energy advocacy and media campaigns. Furthermore Ilias contributes a diverse set of analytical and reporting skills, having led the compilation of extensive reports, including the recent publication of a very influential roadmap on the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology.

Jacob Tomkins
Managing Director
Waterwise

Jacob Tompkins is Managing Director of Waterwise, an NGO committed to promoting sustainable and practical approaches to water efficiency. Waterwise builds on current knowledge, fosters collaboration and facilitates and disseminates best practice. It is the leading authority on water efficiency in the UK. After qualifying as a civil engineering at University College London, Jacob went on to study hydrogeology at Imperial College London. He was an environmental adviser to the Nation Farmers’ Union and a water resources and water efficiency specialist at Water UK before founding Waterwise in 2005. Jacob has sat on a number of European Commission working groups on issues ranging from drought planning to groundwater protection, and spent five years as the UK representative on the Eureau (pan-European water industry body) Drinking Water Commission.

James Fisher
OTC Channel Manager
BAXI

Jan Stasik
Technical Director
Wagner Solar UK Ltd

Jan Stasik, a German citizen, entered Wagner & Co in 2008. After working for 2 years in the international department in Cölbe, Germany, he has been appointed Engineering Manager for Wagner Solar USA. in Cambridge, MA. He is responsible for the Product Management, Project management and is developing and implementing training programs for the US-installers. Starting from October 2011 he will be Technical Director for Wagner Solar UK, Chichester. Mr. Stasik holds a Diploma of the University of Marburg and a degree of renewable energy studies from GNE-institute, Witzenhausen, Germany. Wagner & Co Solar Technology, originally founded in 1979 by a group of environmental technology students, has established a UK subsidiary in Chichester. Wagner Solar UK is the latest expansion of Wagner & Co Solar Technology after a successful history of growth throughout Europe and beyond, with subsidiaries in Spain, France, Italy and the USA and more than 400 employees. The new company will provide Photovoltaic systems tailored to the UK market. As one of the largest Collector manufactures in Germany, Wagner Solar will also be offering highly efficient solar thermal applications and will provide engineering support as well as training sessions for installers in the UK.

Jaryn Bradford
Senior Technical Manager
Energy Saving Trust

Jason Bartlett
Head of Renewables
Liberty Gas Group

Jason joined the gas industry straight from school, completing his three apprenticeships with British Gas passing with distinction and also was awarded the apprentice of the year award, after 10 years as an engineer; Jason took up a service manager's role in locally based gas company. During this period he become a qualified teacher and assessor within the industry setting up a training school and helping over 200 engineers pass their relevant qualifications. Jason also played a major part in setting up 2 of the first gas partnerships in the UK, acting as partnering champion and being critical in both partnerships receiving demonstration status and numerous good practice awards. Jason soon progressed to board level where he continued to expand his knowledge and pass these on to the key partners, engineers and staff. From this board position Jason was responsible for Kinetics winning 3 installer awards in the last two years. He now also heads the national renewable division for the Liberty Gas Group and still plays a pivotal role in ensuring his company is at the forefront of this new technology.

Jo Smit
Editor
Building for Change (BRE)

Jo Smit is editor of the free-access online journal, Building4change.com, which is published by the BRE Trust. Josephine is an award-winning journalist, who has written for a wide range of national, consumer and business media, specialising in housing, sustainability and allied policy issues. Josephine joined BRE in 2009 to launch Building4change.com, an online resource showcasing learning and best practice in innovation and sustainability in the built environment. Under Josephine's leadership the website and enewsletter have become recognised as an authoritiative source of knowledge.

John Breen
Sales Director
Glen Dimplex

John Griggs MSc, BSc,
Principal Science Officer
CIPHE

 He currently chairs the British Standards Institution’s Technical Committee on Water Reuse, is the UK’s delegate to CEN and ISO committees on wastewater reuse. Through the CIPHE he is developing innovative training in water efficiency for students, plumbers and point of sale merchant staff.
John is married to Penny and they have two sons; Josiah and Nathan. They live in a water efficient house in Hertfordshire, about 20 miles from London.

John Mason
Energy Policy Manager
EDF

John has been involved in policy and strategy work for over 15 years specialising in low carbon solutions for domestic and SME property and transport needs.  His career has encompassed working for a leading energy services provider (Carillion Energy Services), Government (Defra as a policy specialist) and a leading trade association (National Insulation Association).   For the past three years John has worked for EDF Energy in the role of Energy Policy Manager.  This role covers all low carbon policies impacting on domestic consumers including supplier obligations, energy services solutions, electric vehicles, consumer electronics and appliances, micro generation and low carbon heating.  John has been focussed on the development of a Green Deal type mechanism working within industry and Government throughout this time.

Kelvin Stevens
Managing Director
Adey Professional Heating Solutions

Kevin Carling
Managing Director
Secon Solar

Martin Orrill
Head of Renewable Heating
British Gas New Energy

Martin’s current responsibility is to assist in the development of Renewable Heating Technologies within British Gas New Energy. He has worked in the Gas industry for over 30 years in a range of engineering, operational, sales and marketing roles. Prior to joining the New Energy team he was National Product Manager for British Gas Services which helped develop a passion for low carbon and renewable opportunities. Examples of Martin’s team’s most recent projects in the low carbon space have been the partnerships and investments with Renewable Gas projects at Didcot and Adnams, Cerespower, Econergy, Baxi, vPhase and Cool Planet. Martin is currently Chairman of the SBGI’s domestic combined heat and power section. He is Chairman of the National Home Improvement Council and an Executive member of the Micropower Council.

Martin White
Head of Product Management
Solar Century

As Head of Product Management, Martin’s team are responsible for Products and Services supporting the Residential and Commercial sectors, with offers including Sunstation, Energy Roof, FastSun and the award winning C21e tiles and Slates. Prior to joining Solarcentury, Martin’s career spanned multiple Marketing roles in the telecoms sector, including responsibility for AT&T’s Global Portfolio for multinational customers the Asia Pacific region.

Matt Scarff
Business Development Advisor
EAL

Prior to joining EAL Matthew worked for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), where he led a number of national qualification policy initiatives. Among these was the Employer Recognition Programme which sought to help employers like McDonalds, the MoD and Network Rail gain national recognition for their in house provision. Matthew has also worked for a number of other bodies on national apprenticeship policy as well as working for a large international examination board. In his current role, Matthew is responsible for identifying new business opportunities for EAL and helping their customers, employers and providers get the most from national qualifications.

Matthew Rhodes
Managing Director
Encraft

Matthew Rhodes is Managing Director of Encraft, a specialist firm of independent consulting engineers and web applications developers based in Leamington Spa. Encraft specialise in on-site generation and the integration of renewables and energy efficiency technologies into buildings, providing a full range of design and engineering services from feasibility studies through to detailed Passivhaus design and project management.The company’s software division produce web applications to help installers specify renewables projects and prepare quotations. They also provide a national on-line toolkit for producing energy statements for new developments. Matthew’s been involved with developing and promoting low carbon technologies since 1993. The Warwick Wind Trial project was his brainchild in 2006 – it was the UK’s first large scale customer field trial of building mounted wind turbines. More recently, Matthew has worked extensively with Birmingham City Council and is one of the architects of the Birmingham Energy Savers Project, rolling out over £115 million of housing retrofit across the city in the next 3 years, building on the opportunities provided by feed-in tariffs and renewable heat incentives.

Michelle Frew
Head of Installation Team, Green Deal Team
DECC

Mike Windsor
Sales Director
Anton

With over 10 years supporting the breadth of the Industry from one man operatives to Gas Safe Register and all leading OEM's. Mike Windsor, Sales Director at Anton Group reviews changing standards and the impact of appliance CO2 output.

Nicola O Connor
Head of Green Deal Capacity (domestic), Installation, Skills and Capacity Team
Department of Energy and Climate Change

Nicola O’Connor is a senior policy adviser at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. She is a member of the team implementing the Green Deal and leads on policy relating to the technologies covered by the Green Deal and supply chain capacity.

Nigel Barrett
Programme Manager
JET, Stoke City Council

Nigel currently holds the position of the interim chief executive of CoRE, which will be the UK Centre of Refurbishment Excellence based in Longton Stoke on Trent.The £11.5 Million project will be completed in autumn 2012, and will focus on all aspects of domestic refurbishment. It is led by Stoke on Trent City Council with two other key partners the Building Research Establishment and Stoke on Trent College, CoRE will promote, skills development, product and process innovation, and offer world class learning and showcasing facilities. Funding for the project has been secured from the European Regional Development Fund, The Department for Education, The City Council, and the Private Sector. CoRE is working closely with a range of key regional and national partners, including Sector Skills Councils and Universities and private and public training providers. The project is now live and is promoting sector based activity through the web site www.core-skills.com.

Nigel Hollett
Head of Environmental Technologies
Summit Skills

Nigel is head of environmental technologies at SummitSkills, the sector skills council for building services engineering. He leads SummitSkills’ development of work around skills and training in environmental technologies across the UK. On behalf of employers in the building services engineering sector (electrotechnical, plumbing, heating and ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration industries). Nigel takes a leading role in a number of innovative partnerships, with a wide range of stakeholders including Government. As a public speaker, he is able to call upon years of first-hand experience in both the private and public sectors. His interest in environmental technologies has led to his latest out-of-work challenge - building his own ecohome in the Gower Peninsula.

Nigel Sanger
John Guest Speedfit
Underfloor Heating Manufacturer’s Association

Peter Roberts
Head MCS Mentor
Easy MCS Ltd

Peter Sutcliffe
Pre Sales Team Vokera
Vokera

Richard Hanson-Greville
Technical Manager
Thermal Integration Limited

Born in Epsom, Surrey.
I have been a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineers for over 10 years, and authored the sections on thermal storage and plate heat exchange for the institute's Design Services book, as well as technical editorials on unvented hot water systems, thermal storage, solar systems, and biomass system design and safety.   Recent projects have included the development of the online software (www.systemdesigner.co.uk)  to design customised multifuel heating and hot water storage systems, and the design of metered thermal storage systems compatible with communal CHP systems.

Richard Lupo
Sustainability Consultant
Sustainable Homes

Richard Williams
Director of Social Housing
Envirovent Limited

Richard joined EnviroVent on St. George’s day 2007.  He is responsible for the supply and in-house installation of low energy, sustainable ventilation systems.  These include Positive Input Ventilation, Heat Recovery and Mechanical Extract Ventilation.  Being a committee member of The European Committee for Standardisation – Natural & Mechanically Power Ventilation; provides a glimpse into the future in relation to legislation and standards.  
EnviroVent provide solutions too condensation and mould for many of Britain’s leading Registered Housing Providers.  Positive Input Ventilation being the preferred choice of the savviest landlords.
BPEC training courses are offered to installers at EnviroVent head office in Harrogate.
Richard left school with nothing to write home about in terms of qualifications and as he puts it, “I just got stuck in”.  Being prepared to get involved and help other achieve what they want to achieve are amongst his values and beliefs.

Rob Whitney
Sales Engineering Specialist
Honeywell ACS

Rob is a Technical Specialist for Honeywell’s heating controls range, his responsibilities include identifying customer requirements, overseeing the product range in the UK, introducing new products, and strategic marketing. He has many years experience in technical marketing and was part of the team that launched the Sundial RF2 wireless range

Simon Osborne
OTC Channel Manager
BAXI

Simon Osborne graduated with Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Salford and has spent the majority of his working life within the Built Environment sector. During his career with IMI, Greenwood Air management and Vent-Axia he has been responsible for the introduction of a number of market leading products. As Channel Manager - Specification he is responsible for the development of the new build and social housing sectors for all Baxi Group’s products especially mCHP & LZC technologies

Steve Davies
Lead MCS Inspector
NICEIC

Sue Clews
Managing Partner
Lettergold - Domestic Water Treatment Association

Sue Clews is the Managing Partner at Lettergold Water Treatment Solutions and Vice Chairman of British Water. Sue joined Lettergold a previous supplier of Salamander in 2008. Sue was appointed Sales Director at Salamander and continued in this role for 15 years. During that time Salamander sold a wide range of water treatment products to the leading Builders and Plumbers Merchants. Working very closely with British Gas and supplying Chemical Water Treatment to them from 2000 to 2007.

Lettergold are currently market leaders providing bespoke private label and own brand ranges of water treatment. We supply almost all of the private label ranges available today. Our products have been tried and tested for many years in the field. Lettergold are active members of HHIC, DWTA, British Water and work with the industry to provide solutions  to keep systems efficient and help reduce carbon emissions. Our Products have a first rate pedigree and include accreditations from Buildcert and Benchmark.

Tony Cable
Senior Marketing & Events Engineer
NICEIC

Tony Lobley
Training Manager
Viessmann

Virginia Graham

REAL Assurance