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Technical Services

Technical Services. A division of the Operational Services Directorate. Purpose. Improving the council’s environmental performance Management and delivery of construction projects funded by the council Maintenance of the council’s built assets

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Technical Services

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  1. Technical Services A division of the Operational Services Directorate

  2. Purpose • Improving the council’s environmental performance • Management and delivery of construction projects funded by the council • Maintenance of the council’s built assets • Regulation of the standard of construction undertaken by others • Reducing Huntingdonshire’s carbon emissions • Reducing fuel poverty

  3. Projects engineering architectural facilities management Project Management Building Control Environment Administration Organisation

  4. Management Head of Technical Services Richard Preston Projects & Assets Manager Chris Allen Building Control Manager Barry Holden Environment Team Leader Chris Jablonski

  5. Environmental Performance • Already promoting sustainability • Planning policy • Housing strategy • Home energy conservation • Countryside • Building control • Take credit for what we are doing • Identify the gaps • Adopt a coherent environmental strategy

  6. ‘Greening the Business’ • Good business case for improved environmental performance • Reduced costs • Energy: reduce consumption, renewables • Waste: reduce, recycle, reuse • Purchasing: supply chain, specification • Travel: to work, business travel • Seek accreditation – EMAS or ISO 14001

  7. Construction Projects • Feasibility, preliminary and detail design • Tender invitation and evaluation • Construction management and administration • Current projects • Huntingdon High Street Environmental Improvements • Public Conveniences • Huntingdon Railway Station Bus Interchange • Partnership schemes with CCC and/or Parish Councils • Reduced capital expenditure

  8. Facilities Management • Compliance with regulatory framework • Legionella, Asbestos, Accessibility, Electrical and Fire Safety, • Maintaining the value and utility of assets • Offices, leisure centres, pavilions, bus stations, car parks, public conveniences, depots … • Energy procurement • Responding to the growth in assets

  9. Key Assets Castle Hill House Pathfinder House Godmanchester Depot

  10. Project Management • Securing the delivery of capital projects within budget and on-time • New Headquarters and Other Accommodation • Oak Tree Health Centre & Oxmoor • Longsands Enterprise Centre • Management and reporting of MTP capital programme delivery • Corporate project management protocols • Developing and maintaining the skill base

  11. Oak Tree Centre

  12. New District Council Offices

  13. New Operations Centre

  14. Building Control • Statutory service regulating standards in building construction – 2000 applications annually • BSI Registered – ISO 2001 quality assured • Required to be self-financing over three years (£463k pa) • Competes with ‘Approved Inspectors’ • Preferred BC provider for Defence Estates (East) • Potential for Local Authority Company • Maintaining competitiveness

  15. Home Energy & Renewables • Statutory targets for reducing domestic energy consumption (30% of 1996 levels by 2012) • Advice and education for householders on energy efficiency and renewables • Referrals for grant aided insulation measures • 291 in 2004/05 and 524 in 2005/06 • Reducing fuel poverty and acting as an advocate for fuel poor • Increased fuel prices = increased demand

  16. Miscellany • Transfer of waste policy activity • Street naming and numbering • Watercourses • Flood alleviation • Responding to emergencies • First time rural sewerage • Liaison with CCC Highways

  17. Adopt and publicise a strategy Use regulation to best effect Set targets for reducing CO2 emissions by source – domestic, commercial, and transport Lead by example Demonstration projects Raise public awareness of the risks and opportunities Tackling Climate Change

  18. East of England Regional Assembly Local authorities should seek to draw together the various adaptation (and mitigation) responses that are required in a single corporate strategy covering climate change or wider sustainable energy issues… Alternatively, councils should consider the means to properly integrate this agenda into existing strategies … Living with Climate Change in the East of England

  19. King’s Lynn Bay Great of Peterborough Yarmouth Linconshire Norwich Lowestoft Huntingdon THE Cambridge NORTH Felixstowe SEA Clacton on Sea Southend on Sea Margate 03/03/2006 349.ds4-Nov '95 Huntingon – coastal resort?

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