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Funded Site Surveys - Client: Carbon Trust. John
Pooley was one of the original team of consultants that were
involved in the development of the site survey scheme. To date
he has undertaken in excess of 60 surveys under the scheme.
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Gearing Consultant Motor & Drives - Client: ETSU (now
FES). Over a two year period providing technical and
marketing support in the area of motors and drives. Part of this
work was the development of the Motor Challenge series of
workshops that travelled around the UK.
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Gearing Consultant Management Techniques - Client: ETSU
(now FES). Over a one year period providing technical
support in the area of management techniques. In particular this
work looked at the role of middle and senior managers in energy efficiency.
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Minerals Sector Facilitator - Client: ETSU (now
FES). Over a two year period providing support to the Energy
Efficiency Best Practice Programme's activity in the UK minerals
sector. This work involved liaison with the trade association,
the QPA, and other relevant parties.
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Gearing Consultant Non-Ferrous Metals - Client: ETSU (now
FES). Over a two year period providing support to the Energy
Efficiency Best Practice Programme's activity in the UK
non-ferrous metals sector. This work involved liaison with a
number of the trade associations including ALFED.
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Post Project Reviews - Client: Environment Agency. This
assignment involved the review of 18 Environment Agency R&D projects
over a period of three years. The outcome was a series of
recommendations for improving the process of R&D project management
within the Agency.
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Environmental Review - Client: A UK University. This
involved a critical assessment of the university's environmental
management and included guidance on the issues involved with
ISO14001.
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Environmental Review - Client: Caribbean Cement Company. This
involved an assessment of on-site electricity generation and use
as well as cement kiln operation. Outcome was a range of opportunities
for improvement including recommendations on life cycle analysis.
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Environmental Supply Chain Project - Client: Nottingham
Energy Partnership. This project involved developing an
approach to environmental management for elements of the supply
chain to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. A pilot group
of suppliers were guided through the initial stages of an
environmental assessment.
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Environmental Auditor Training - Client: Royal Mail.
This assignment was delivered with the Ashridge Management
Centre. The scope of work was to provide practical on-site
training for Royal Mail environmental auditors. All
trainees qualified as EARA approved auditors.
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Energy Management Training - Client: Corporation of
London. Over a two year programme the development and
delivery of energy management training to the Corporation's
Energy Wardens and M&E staff.
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Energy Management Training - Client: Bristol City Council.
A two year programme of site surveys and training for Site
Energy Officers.
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Energy Efficiency Advisor - Client: A minerals
company. This assignment involved training, site surveys and
strategic support for the energy efficiency programme of the company's
international aggregates division.
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Compressed Air Training - Client: BCAS/EI. John was
involved in the development and delivery of the British
Compressed Air Society's one day energy efficiency in compressed
air course that was delivered in conjunction with the Energy
Institute.
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Green Business Club - Client: Wolverhampton MBC. This
was a joint project with the University of Wolverhampton which
involved local manufacturing SMEs and final year degree
students. Each SME was allocated a student to work on issues in
the company as their final year project. Monthly meetings of the
group were held which included training on specific topics. John
Pooley was part of the co-ordinating team and the technical
consultant for the project. He also acted as the industrial
supervisor to the students. The 'club' lasted for three years until
EU funding expired.
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Development of web-based environmental training - Client:
University of Wolverhampton. This was part of a larger
'extranet' project for the Black Country to provide on demand
training for SMEs. The work involved the development of the
complete content for a web based environmental training module.
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Training for Site Energy Managers - Client: A building
products company. This involved the development and delivery
of a one day, on-site training course for the company's site
energy managers.
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Independent Monitoring - Client: A water treatment company.
This assignments involved the extended monitoring of a hot water system
in a hotel to assess the energy impact of alternative methods of
water treatment.
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Environmental Policy Development - Client: A plastic
products company. Developing an environmental policy to meet
the requirements of a major retailer.
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Staff Attitude Survey - Client: A high street banking organisation.
This involved the development and analysis of a staff attitude
survey covering 500 branches of the bank. In addition to
analysis of postal results, follow-up interviews were
undertaken.
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Retail Energy Saving - Client: A high street retailer.
This involved an assessment of the current energy efficiency of
the high street stores and the development of recommendations
for a revised M&E specification for new stores.
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Energy Consultancy - Client: A glass container
manufacturer. Driven by issues with the electricity supply
to the site, this assignment reviewed ways of reducing the use
of electricity on site, which focussed on the electricity use of
the glass making furnaces.
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Compressed Air Review - Client: A large automotive site. This
involved a complete assessment of compressed air generation and
use on site. As a result, energy savings of 10% were made with no
capital expenditure.
