Kevin Faulkner (Premises Manager,Theatre Royal Plymouth) delivers a speech on achieving energy efficiency with buildings.

1. Theatre Royal Plymouth. The first Theatre in England To receive the Carbon Trust’s Energy Efficiency Award Kevin Faulkner Premises Manager Theatre Royal (Plymouth) From a Paul Renyard presentation! Which was borrowed from a Kevin Faulkner premises presentation!

3. Display Energy Certificates

4. Still in bragging mode!

5. And again!

8. 3x 15w replaced with 3x 3w (45 ↓ 9) 15w replaced with 3w (1Khrs ↑ 15K) 35w Halogen replaced with 3w single LED

9. Use of LEDs, High Frequency, Low energy lighting & Fibre Optic 100w light requires a further 100w to cool = 200w total electricity consumption !!

11. 2 x 750kw boilers on 24hrs a day plus associated pumps and fans! Simple 10 minute adjustments to BEMS reduced running time to 8hrs a day on demand only. Further enhancements came later.

14. Why use chillers when most vent systems can use fresh air to cool and also body-heat/recirculation to heat? We repaired the air dampers and linked to BEMS. Therefore chillers and boilers remain off most of the time.

15. Air damper or not, this fresh air damper from our studio Theatre was only useful for scrap. Recycled of course!

16. BEMS are designed to reach required temperatures as efficiently as possible, Once there, the system should be allowed to vary a little in temperature (known as a dead band), Otherwise the system will hold that ideal temperature whatever the cost! Shown below is a ventilation system feeding basement dressing rooms and offices. So fine tune the controls to provide the best environment at the lowest cost.

17. Brute Force vs Technology 750KWh atmospheric ‘Flame Thrower’ 50% efficient 2x 50KWh high efficiency Combi 98+% efficient (Zenex Coolflue Technology) 24 hour domestic hot water (showers) We saw earlier that two large boilers were used to heat the DHWS, This is very wasteful in summer! Any domestic boiler system would have been better but we used 2 very efficient Zenex Technology boilers, total cost £20k, Payback1.5 years!

18. We fitted Zenex boilers for DHWS, by pre-heating the cold water to your calorifier, massive savings can be achieved. Other boilers are available!

19. We dared to enter traditional no go areas. but the artistes loved it, and less of a fire risk! Not a priority as hours of use is low. 60W incandescent 7W Fluorescent

20. 2007 compared with 2002 Electricity 19% lower Gas 46% lower Water 33% lower CO2 33% lower Saving annually at today's prices Electricity £20,300 Gas £19,054 Water £10,000 270 Tonnes less of CO2! Current annual utility bill is £122,000 (would have been £172,000)

21. 2007 compared with 2002 Electricity 14% lower Gas 30% lower Water 20% lower Co2 10% lower Saving annually at today's prices Electricity £43,097 Gas £31,429 Water £12,500 240 Tonnes less CO2! Current utility bill is £394,000 would have been £481,000

24. (Please ignore the 2004 glitch!) CO2 reductions in the last five years