Foreign Cycling Center here in Manchester also known as the velodrome and this is a large building that’s used for international cycling and training we’ve done a huge decarbonization project here as the council a lot of new equipment is within where we’re stood now which is the LED lighting fixture which is the
Lighting behind us we’ve then got the air handling units and the air source heat pumps and then we have a thermal wheel now we know which recycles hot air community out with the building and we’ve also got the solar carports outside so we declared our climate emergency in 2019 and then developed our
Climate change action plan for the city council as an organization with the view to being zero carbon by 2038 as a city and we’ve really tried to take a lead in that and show how we can make changes first particularly investing into our own buildings and how we reduce our
Carbon emissions that way we’ve got over 300 buildings that we use as a council and we are looking at how we can create a pipeline across all those buildings to decarbonize them so that by 2038 we can reach zero carbon as a council into following the project and all the new
Installs the building management system is new and more efficient and within the center we do have 27 plant rooms to operate the full facility so there’s a lot of a lot of equipment through the install although we’ve contributed some of our resources into this we have been
Quite successful in terms of the grant funding that’s been available through the public sector decarbon isolation fund the solar carports have been funded by erdf funding also Manchester City Council has invested a huge amount in here as well there’s a whole new economy is that the building around green skills
And we need to be able to bring people up particularly our young people and think education for me right at Nursery School is really really important so that we recognize that this needs to be not something special and new but part of our everyday so it’s just obvious
That we’ll do these things in a more Environmental Way in a Greener way thank you