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THE JOURNEY to NET ZERO ENERGY We Are Committed to Reaching Net Zero Energy by 2020 - Take a Look at Our Progress to Date NEWS FROM KINGSPAN INSULATED PANELS MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA, TURKEY, CENTRAL ASIA | APRIL 2018 SPRING THE JOURNEY TO NET ZERO ENERGY We are committed to reaching Net Zero Energy by 2020 - take a look at our progress to date. Renewable energy used (GWh) Renewable electricity used (GWh) used electricity Renewable CO2CO2 tonnes tonnes per per €m €m 2012 0.053 2013 0.049 2014 0.040 2015 0.034 2016 0.014 Light and heat costs as a % of turnover of % a as costs heat and Light 2017 0.012 Renewable energy generated on-site (GWh) kWh per € turnover € per kWh 2020 EDITORIAL Dear reader, Welcome to the first edition of Kingspan MEATCA News, a brand new magazine that celebrates the growing success of Kingspan Insulated Panels in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and Central Asia. As the global leader in high-performance insulation and building envelope solutions, Kingspan boasts over 12,000 employees across more than 70 countries worldwide, including dedicated teams in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and Central Asia. These teams are truly multicultural in nature, with employees from a variety of backgrounds working together to deliver some of the most cutting-edge, awe-inspiring projects using Kingspan products. We highlight some of these exceptional projects in the MEATCA region through intriguing articles, interviews with sector professionals, case studies and relevant product information from the Kingspan range. In our first issue, we highlight some of these exceptional projects in the MEATCA region through intriguing articles, interviews with sector professionals, case studies and relevant product information from the Kingspan range. By sharing these success stories, we hope to increase communication across the different teams of Kingspan Group – as well as provide a source of inspiration for potential clients looking to partner with Kingspan on their next project. The theme of our first issue is sustainability, a concept that is becoming ever more important in shaping architecture, design and the built environment. Powered by its vision to lead the way in creating energy-efficient buildings, in 2011, Kingspan Group embarked on its own initiative, committing to ensure that all of its facilities worldwide are Net-Zero Energy on an aggregate basis by the year 2020. You can read some of the concrete steps we’ve taken to meet our goal in the following pages. As this is our first issue, we greatly value your feedback. We hope you enjoy Kingspan MEATCA News; we look forward to delivering engaging content for our readers as we continue to grow our influence in the region. Sincerely, kingspan.com | 3 04 22 44 60 77 OUR NET-ZERO TAKING BIM TO A SMARTER Polidoor DUbai Plant ENERGY INITIATIVE THE NEXT LEVEL WAY TO LIVE: SU MO BY KINGSPAN InvestMENT Case STUDY SU Mo lIVING lAB 10 28 50 66 79 PoWErED BY AzerbaiJAN TIME To JoIN ThE DUBAI A TrUlY FIRE AND LIFE QUadcore™ ThE lAND oF FIrE EVOLUTION Global city SafetY TECHNOLOGY Case STUDY Case STUDY Bravo SUPErMArket Istanbul New AIrPorT logistics WArEhouse 12 34 58 68 80 BENCHMARK FSEL MODUlaris KINGZIP SEMINAR Series DRi-DEsigN DEPARTMENT ColD CONTENTS Case STUDY Case STUDY Case STUDY MIll WooDS lIBrArY AlI BIN AlI logistics VIllage Abu DhABI INTErnatioNAl AIrPorT 4 | kingspan.com kingspan.com | 5 NET-ZERO Kingspan MEATCA News Our Net-ZerO eNergy INItIatIve ENVIRONMENT OUR OPERatIONS In 2011, Kingspan With over 12,000 employees and 111 manufacturing sites operating across AIMS Group embarked on the world, the scale of the challenge is its own initiative, daunting. The Group’s rapid growth also → Sustainability at the adds complexity: committing to ensure heart of everything that all of its facilities → Increasing demand for products we do. leads to an increase in worldwide are manufacturing energy demand. → Net-Zero Energy. Net-Zero Energy on → Growth through acquisitions adds new facilities at different → Minimise harmful an aggregate basis levels of development and energy emissions, waste and by the year 2020. efficiency. water usage. → Employees need to be engaged in the work through cultural change. Despite these obstacles, in 2016 the Group over-achieved on its 50% target by 7% while in 2017 the NZE % currently stands at 69%. This is our third year making the CDP ‘A list’ and we’re proud to be one of only two Irish companies to have achieved this challenging standard. Progress Mark harris, towards our goal of operating at Net-Zero Energy by 2020 has been key to Building Technology Director, Western Europe, Middle East, delivering our reduced environmental impact. our achievements to“ date clearly Africa, SEA & Australasia, Kingspan Insulated Panels. “demonstrate the business case behind saving energy, reducing carbon emissions and generating renewable energy on our own sites – often using our own products and solutions. The building sector contributes around 30% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions, which means it has a crucial role to play in helping countries hit the targets set in last year’s Paris Agreement. Gene M Murtagh, CEO Over HaLF WAY tO a Net-ZerO eNERGY BuSINeSS 6 | kingspan.com kingspan.com | 7 NET-ZERO Kingspan MEATCA News 2017 2020 OUR OPERatIONS our global Net-Zero Energy team is responsible for delivering our ambitious 2020 goal, working together to implement new 69% NZE initiatives and identify areas for improvement through our In 2017, our aggregate We are on track to renewable energy use hit our goal, set in three-step strategy – Save More – Generate More – Buy More. was 69% of our total 2011, of operating energy use at Net-Zero Energy by 2020 SAVE Generate BUY MORE MORE MORE Improving the energy efficiency of our A particular highlight of our “Generate The purchase of renewable energy operations remains the highest priority More” strategy is that 7.3% of our total from the grid is an important part of Our JOurNey To Net-ZerO eNergy across the Group. A wide range of energy use was generated from our strategy. our preferred option is to projects were implemented on many renewable sources on our own purchase certified renewable energy sites during 2017 including the following; manufacturing sites. The technologies in (both electricity and gas) direct from use include: our suppliers but where this is not Energy Costs Renewable Energy Usage → LED lighting installations including possible we have made purchases of light and heat costs as renewable energy used (GWh) daylight dimming and occupancy → Solar PV; Guarantees of origin (Gos) in Europe, a % of turnover sensing; → Solar thermal; renewable Energy Certificates (rECs) → Optimised daylighting solutions → Biomass heat; in North America and International 2012 1.29 2012 27 2013 1.14 2013 60 including roof and wall lights; → Biomass ChP (electricity); renewable Energy Certificates (irECs) in 2014 1.11 2014 88 → Heat recovery systems; → Small scale wind; other regions as necessary. 2015 0.99 2015 126 → Compressed air system → Anaerobic digestion. 2016 0.88 2016 243 improvements; 2017 0.79 2017 328 → Insulation to reduce heat loss; Particular highlights during 2017 → Destratification fans to improve heat were the first full year of generation of PROGRESS TO NET-ZERO ENERGY distribution; the roof mounted solar PV system at Energy Intensity On-site Energy Generation → Low energy process equipment our Sherburn site that delivered over kWh per € turnover renewable energy generated installation; 4GWh renewable electricity in 2017 – it’s 475 on-site (GWh) → Power factor correction systems. believed to be one of the 5 largest solar 424 PV arrays in the UK. 2017 also saw the 2012 0.19 2012 6.6 A key part of the “Save More” strategy first full year of operation of a biomass 386 2013 0.18 2013 14.5 has been employee awareness and heat facility at our Pembridge site 317 327 312 2014 0.16 2014 17.3 training. Implementation of Energy delivering 1.6GWh renewable heat. A 2015 0.14 2015 24.1 Management Standard ISo 50001 major biomass ChP facility came online 2016 0.14 2016 32.2 in several of our manufacturing sites at our Portadown site at the end of 2017 0.79 2017 34.5 has also been effective in driving energy 2017. The facility is anticipated to efficiency improvements and increased generate 4GWh per annum renewable use of sub-metering has facilitated electricity for use on site. We were Carbon Intensity Renewable Electricity accurate targeting of energy saving granted planning permission for up to Co2 tonnes per €m Usage opportunities. our efforts to make 1.5MW wind turbine at our holywell site of turnover renewable electricity used (GWh) further improvements will continue in and anticipate that the machine will 2018 and we are already working on be generating over 1.5GWh per annum 2012 0.053 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2012 27.4 some significant opportunities that electricity from the 4th quarter of 2018. 2013 0.049 2013 58.0 have the capability of delivering over 2014 0.040 2014 80.3 100,000kWh per annum. Total Renewable Total Energy NZE% 2015 0.034 2015 102.3 Energy GWh Use GWh 2016 0.014 2016 164.4 2017 0.012 2017 167.2 8 | kingspan.com kingspan.com | 9 NET-ZERO Kingspan MEATCA News Accreditation Waste Water RE100 Waste reduction brings benefits Although water is a small proportion ENVIRONMENT Kingspan is a gold member of the through reducing environmental of inputs into our operations, we rE100. rE100 is a collaborative, global impact and costs. Kingspan is aim to manage the resource in the initiative of influential businesses fully committed to reducing the most responsible manner possible. OUR PRODUCTS committed to 100% renewable amount of waste sent to landfills In general, water is mainly used for electricity, working to increase demand and is continuously looking at new general sanitation purposes and for, and delivery of renewable electricity.
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