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Industrial and Large Public Sector Projects 2007 – 2012

Windborne has continued to develop its relationship with ABB Engineering Services, based in Warrington and Billingham, and has executed extensive consultancy related to future planned bioenergy projects. Some recent projects have included:

Initiative-takers to, and management of, a major international programme (2012 -2015) for Bioenergy Collaboration between French, UK and Scandinavian corporations and governmental bodies. The Programme focusses upon the evolution of bioenergy as a major sustainable energy source in Europe and other parts of the World. The Programme embraces the entire spectrum of bioenergy activities including the securing of land for the development of biofuel resource bases, short rotation forestry, production of refined biofuels, the design and building of power plants (including CHP) and the management of the completed plant.
Nottingham City NHS Hospital Trust – replacing 16 MWth coal-fired boilers with 2 x 8 MWth wood powder-fired boilers and in-feed system
Center Parcs Sherwood Holiday Village – provision of a new 5 MWth wood powder-fired boiler and district heating network
Elveden Estate and Farms – provision of a new 6,5 MWth fresh chip boiler with a dryer and ORC oil turbine generator to produce heat for a supply network and 1 MWel
Center Parcs Elveden Holiday Village – new district heating network for the main Village facilities

In addition, close collaborations have been developed with many major industrial clients, such as Toyota, Hanson Building Materials, Ibstock Brick, Rolls-Royce,

Windborne and its UK bioenergy development partner ABB Engineering Services have delivered during June 2010 a detailed engineering study for the provision of a new bioenergy CHP plant in Elveden, near Thetford. The client is one of the UK’s largest farming concerns and will be able to utilise about 50% of its own forest resources in the new plant. The scheme will also supply heat to a neighbouring holiday village for its central facilities, via a district heating network, and heat for a new drying facility to produce high value horse bedding. The total cost of the scheme is estimated to be about £10 M

Siemens Industrial Gas Turbines, Loughborough University. A number of pre-feasibility studies were executed that showed the benefits of converting industrial processes from gas or oil to biomass and developing CHP systems to produce electricity on-site.

Windborne was engaged during 2009-2010 by Renewable Energy Systems (RES), part of the Robert McAlpine Group, as expert advisor for the development of Short Rotation Forestry in the UK for their planned suite of 100 MW bioenergy power stations. Advice was also provided on the choice of combustion system and technical visits were organised to Igelsta near Stockholm to see the construction of a new 200 MWth/85 MWel CHP plant.

Clean Energy Innovation Park, Stockholm

Windborne are currently engaged in negotiations for the development of a new major city neighbourhood project in the Stockholm area. The project will contain an Innovation Park focussed upon research, development, entrepreneurial activities within the sustainable energy sector. The Project, with the working title
"Clean Energy Innovation Park”, is aimed at creating a leading international centre for clean energy technology and will involve a close collaboration between Scandinavian and international corporations, research institutions and academic centres.

Exciting Collaboration with Züblin Scandinavia in the field of Geo-thermal Energy

Windborne International has established a collaboration with Züblin Scandinavia to deliver turn-key Ground Source Heating and Cooling installations (GSHC) to the Scandinavian market and to other parts of the European. Outside of Scandinavia, the UK is the focus of particular attention due to the immense effort which is being made to introduce sustainable energy solutions.

In Scandinavia, the collaboration with Züblin has been extended to incorporate Scandinavia's leading building services company, Bravida. This collaboration will operate through a newly formed joint venture company called Rock Energy Solutions and will offer the market total GSHC solutions embracing both the geothermal and above ground heating, ventilating, cooling, hot water and power components of the system.

The above collaborations will focus upon the provision of total GSHC solutions for commercial and institutional properties as well as larger housing schemes and infrastructural projects.

ESPRO: The European Forum for Sustainable Property Development

During the late Autumn 2010 ESPRO will be holding a European Conference entitled “Real estate and its transition from being an energy consumer to becoming a sustainable energy producer”.

San Francisco, USA September

Robert Windborne, in his capacity as Chairman of The Windborne International Group, spoke to an audience of venture capitalists, researchers and developers on the topic of "Sustainable Energy Solutions for the Real EstateSector".

Copenhagen May

Robert Windborne, in his capacity as Chairman of ESPRO (The European Forum for Sustainable Property Development), spoke on the topic "Sustainable Energy Solutions for the Property Sector".

The talk was held before an audience of property managers and focussed upon the opportunities for achieving vastly increased energy efficiency, reduced costs and a largely carbon neutral energy solutions by deploying "Local Source Heating, Cooling and Powering" technology.
This technology is oriented around advanced heat pump technology operating as an integral part of an interactive system deploying efficient energy recycling, solar collectors/panels and /or the underground extraction and storage of geothermal heat and free cooling as well as bio-fuelled CHP power generators.

Oxford University June

Robert Windborne, in his capacity as Chairman of The European Forum for Sustainable Property Development (ESPRO), was an invited Speaker at a conference on sustainable development at Oxford University. The audience comprised representatives of The European Property Developers Association and invited guests.
The topic of the talk was "The Response by the Property Sector to the Threat of Global Warming".

Brussels: The European Commission 2007

Robert Windborne, Chairman of The European Forum for Sustainable Property Development (ESPRO) spoke at the 2nd European Forum on ECO Innovationon (ETAP) June 11 2007. The Conference, organised by The European Commission, operates as a forum for the introduction of sustainable practices into the European property and construction industries.

ESPRO: The European Forum for Sustainable Property Development Seminar in London April 6 2005

"The Move towards Sustainable Property Development in Europè"

ESPRO is concerned with the promotion of sustainable property development in Europe and is the result of extensive collaboration between governmental and other public sector organisations as well as property companies and institutions in Sweden and the UK.

An ESPRO Seminar will be held on April 6 in London. The sponsors for this Seminar are The Swedish Energy Agency and The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The Reader is referred to the following Seminar Programme.

Silverdal: The Stockholm Environmental Science Park

The Pfizer pharmaceuticals company has recently decided to establish a new office at Silverdal and has commissioned Skanska as the Main Contractor.

The office will be 31,000 m2 in size and, with an investment of some 80 million Euros, will be one of the largest office projects to be commenced in the Stockholm region in recent years.

Pfizer's President for Sweden, Lars Gunneflo, says: "We are building an office that will be a natural meeting place for the various parties active in Swedish health and medical care".

Jimmy Bengtsson, Business Manager for Skanska Sweden says: "We believe that Pfizer's decision to select Silverdal will attract more companies to invest here".