The Green House Project

Through the Sustainable Efficiency East project, SmartLIFE, Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and Anglian Water are offering a FREE evening giving you smart advice on greening you business and how you can apply for a £500 grant to put towards making improvements.

Hot topics include:
How to take advantage of a free energy audit and access a grant of £500 (This only applies if you are a business registered in Huntingdonshire).
How to save money on water bills- talk to an expert from Anglian Water.
How to cut waste and save money- talk to a waste management expert.
1:1 grants advice, talk to one of our experts and find out what funding opportunities are out there for SMEs.
Take a guided tour of the green house, retrofitted from an E EPC rating to a B EPC rating. See renewable technology and refurbishment in practice.

Date: Wednesday 30 May

Time: 4.30-7.00pm

Venue: St Ives Green House, 1 St Audrey Lane, St Ives

For more information open the link below:
Grow your business the smart advice event
For more information on the Sustainable Efficiency East project and the FREE one to one support the project can offer please visit: www.see.gb.net
To avoid disappointment book today, call Huntingdonshire District Council on 01480 388315 or 01480 388304

Saturday 24 March, 10am – 4pm at the St Ives Green House

Your chance to get up-to-date with what’s happening with the Feed-in-tarriff.  Find out more about the renewable energy systems and how to achieve a Passive House standard.

You can book a 1:1 session with our experts by calling 01480 388315 or 388304, or just call in and have a look around.

Representatives from Aran Serives and independant energy expert Peter Chisnall and Allan Sharpe will be on hand to offer advice.

Huntingdonshire District Council hosted a FREE Fuel Poverty Advice and Information event, which was attended by many voluntary organisations and health/housing professionals in Cambridgeshire.

The event took place on Wednesday 29 February, at the St Ives Green House and provided attendees with the necessary tools and advice to help identify and assist vulnerable households who require help and support in increasing the energy efficiency of their homes.

Presentations were given by Huntingdonshire District Council’s Environment Team, Homeshield, the Citizens Advice Bureau and NHS Cambridgeshire who spoke about the services they provide to assist householders out of fuel poverty.
If you were unable to attend and which to find out more, copies of the presentations given can be found here    

Through the SEE project, Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and Bedford College are offering a FREE drop in evening giving you smart advice to green your business.

Date: Wednesday 25 January 2012
Time: DROP IN event from 4pm – 7pm, tours of the house start at 4.30pm and 6pm
Venue: St Ives Green House, 1 St Audrey Lane, St Ives, PE27 3XF
Cost: FREE (to private sector organisations based in the East of England with
fewer than 250 employees)

We can offer you support and advice on the topics below:
• Free support to give your premises an energy audit. If savings can be made you can take advantage of a £500 grant to implement changes. (This only applies if you are a business registered in Huntingdonshire).

• One to one grants advice, talk to our experts and find out what funding opportunities are out there for SMEs.

• Experts in construction training, SmartLIFE, can give you advice on how to up-skill staff to take advantage of the growing construction retrofit market and Green Deal opportunities.

• Take a guided tour of the green house, retrofitted from an E EPC rating to a B EPC rating. See renewable technology and refurbishment in practice. Guided tours will run for an hour starting at 4.30pm and 6pm.

• SEE offers a free diagnosis of working practices; highlighting opportunities that can help reduce costs and improve business practices through resource and energy efficiency.

If you would like to register your interest contact: Huntingdonshire District Council on 01480 388315 or 01480 388304

Over 300 year 7 students from St Ivo Secondary School took a tour around the St Ives Green House last week as part of their Geography studies.  The students spent time learning about all the features within the property and the benefits that can be gained in terms saving money and carbon emissions.

St Ivo is a very active school in raising environmental awareness within the school as well as the wider community.  The school as gained the Silver award and is working towards Green Flag status as part of the Eco-Schools programme – an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.

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Halsted Rain Ltd will be launching a new Tower Tank Rainwater Harvesting System at Ecobuild 2011 which expands the Company’s product range to cover larger domestic and commercial installations up to and including systems with a storage capacity of 3000 litres. This above ground unit is a fully integrated rainwater harvesting system, comprising a filter diverter, twin-tank water storage, pump package and automatic mains water back up.

The introduction of the Tower Tank System follows the successful launch last year of the Company’s Super Slim Wall Tank System that has set new industry standards for ease of installation, reliability and affordability. Both products are for harvesting rainwater for toilet flushing and garden irrigation; and are leading the introduction of modular and slim profile systems into the UK construction market.

An entry level Tower Tank System has a storage capacity of 1400 litres and a footprint of only 1400 x 700 cm. Rain diverted from an existing downpipe is filtered via the Company’s market leading Frogmouth and Lazy Lizard Filters before being delivered to services via an automatic pump. In the event of there being insufficient stored rainwater to meet demand the system is automatically supplied via a mains water valve mechanism.

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This question has been brought up by a number of visitors of the St Ives house. Having spoken with ESEA Ltd who has brought this product together, they have confirmed that the lighting used within the green house can be used with a dimmable switch as long as you have the correct LED driver fitted.

The attached fact sheet gives you an example of an LED Driver which will allow your LED bulbs to be dimmable.

Minidim LED Driver

A ground breaking initiative by Huntingdonshire District Council called the Green House Project has opened in St Ives Cambridgeshire.

Tritechnology™ are pleased to have supplied the LED lighting throughout the house.

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