HVCA president foresees major commercial business opportunities
The HVCA has a crucial role to play in ensuring that its members gear up for ‘the most profitable commercial opportunity’ building-services engineering has ever known, according to the association’s new president Martin Burton. Speaking at HVCA’s AGM, he stressed that in the context of the Government’s ongoing commitment to carbon reduction, the association must assist its members towards a full understanding of sustainable and renewable technologies — ‘from solar thermal to heat pumps and from photovoltaics to hydrogen fuel cells’.
He insisted. ‘We must provide them with detailed guidance on matching the right renewable technology with the right application and on minimising the carbon footprint of their own businesses. We must ensure that appropriate technical training arrangements are in place.
‘HVCA members must also be prepared to promote low-carbon options to their clients.
‘We must convince our members of the commercial wisdom of joining microgeneration, competent-persons and other accreditation schemes, which — as well as providing a passport to new business — underline their competence and farsightedness,’ Said Mr Burton.
Your don’t need me to remind you that, increasingly in the years and decades ahead, environmental considerations will set the standard and define the shape of our buildings. Nor do I have to point out the key role which the building-services engineer will come increasingly to play in turning the low-carbon dream into a functioning reality.'
