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Greywater Recycling
This seminar introduces the concept of greywater recycling, identifies the opportunities of this technology and highlights the pitfalls to be aware of. It looks at all the systems currently available on the UK market, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of
Green Roofs
Green roofs provide bio diversity, keep buildings cool in summer, play an important role in reducing run off from roof surfaces and can mitigate against the heat island effect of major cities. They are suitable for retrofit as well as
Carbon Reduction Strategies for your Organisation
For any organisation to successfully reduce its overall carbon footprint an understanding of the whole life impact of different sustainable solutions, including maintenance and running costs of different technologies, is vitally important. Using actual case studies this workshop will cover
Carbon Rationing – how would it work?
Our carbon-rationing seminar is an example of a workshop that addresses global issues whilst providing solutions at a national and personal level. It is especially popular with student groups and Housing Associations as an aid to enhancing carbon literacy. Participants
BREEAM – an overview
This workshop provides an overview to the BREEAM assessment system looking at the core headings of energy, transport, water, materials, pollution and health and well being. It identifies quick wins and the best solutions from a whole life-cycle analysis using
Thames Water’s Schools Water Makeover
In 2009 ech2o partnered with Thames Water and Aqualogic as part of Thames Water’s Schools Water Makeover which consisted of an audit, retrofit and education programme for 22 primary and 10 secondary schools in the Thames Water area. The project
BPEC Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Recycling Training
Cath Hassell of ech2o is working with BPEC Training Ltd, (a registered charity which supports quality education and training initiatives in the plumbing industry) to train plumbers to install and maintain rainwater harvesting and greywater recycling systems. BPEC recognised the
Dare you take our shower survey – the results 2015
We challenged a bunch of adolescents to dare to take the ech2o shower survey. Most of them whey were too ‘busy’ (loosely speaking) to get round to it. But a whole pile of other people did and we have analysed
Reducing WC flush volumes in schools – are we overestimating the water savings? 2015
Research by ech2o confirms that the practice of estimating water savings in schools assuming three uses of the WC a day results in an overestimation of potential savings (both of water and monetary) by a factor of 2 in primary