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    Designing enterprises for true sustainability with Dr Steven Fawkes Managing Partner of EP Group.

    Designing enterprises for true sustainability with Dr Steven Fawkes Managing Partner of EP Group.

    Engineering Ignition Podcast, hosted by Scott Buchanan and sponsored by www.bonfirerecruitment.com

    Scott is joined by Dr Steven Fawkes, the Managing Partner of the EP Group, www.epgroup.com and is also a Partner at Cameron Barney, www.cameronbarney.com.

    Steven has been helping to drive greater levels of energy efficiency and sustainable energy for over 30 years, even before we started calling it the energy transition.

    Steven has been exposed to a number of energy related challenges over his tenure and has a superb perspective on:

    Energy efficiency

    Energy sustainability

    Energy transition

    and how to improve energy productivity within organisations of varying sizes and scale across the globe.

    On this episode Scott & Steve discuss the need to change the design of enterprises in order to achieve true sustainability.

    • 31 min
    2022 Dr Steve Fawkes

    2022 Dr Steve Fawkes

    Welcome to this weeks Engineering Ignition Podcast, hosted by Scott Buchanan.

    Scott is joined by Steven Fawkes, the Managing Partner of EnergyPro Ltd, www.energyproltd.com and is also a Partner at Cameron Barney, www.cameronbarney.com.

    Steven has been exposed to a number of energy related challenges over his tenure and has a superb perspective on:

    Energy efficiency
    Energy sustainability
    Energy transition

    and how to improve energy productivity within organisations of varying sizes and scale across the globe.

    Today Scott & Steven discuss “Accessing India” an incredible piece of his encapsulating career and also how he led the UK’s entrance into the Indian Energy market, what an incredible journey!

    This podcast focuses on Stevens journey of energy efficiency, energy sustainability and improving energy productivity to the Indian government and how this scenario positioned the UK to be in a strong position to introduce new business streams building on Stevens experience by taking energy transition focused businesses to India.

    Engineering Ignition Podcast sponsored by www.energyproltd.com, Bonfire Recruitment - www.bonfirerecruitment.com & www.bonfireengineering.com

    • 31 min
    The Energy of Everything & Climate Change with Allan Jones MBE, President of IEAC

    The Energy of Everything & Climate Change with Allan Jones MBE, President of IEAC

    Welcome to this weeks Engineering Ignition Podcast, hosted by Scott Buchanan.

    Delighted to discuss - The Energy Of Everything & Climate Change with Allan Jones MBE, President & Chair of the International Energy Advisory Council.

    Key points of our discussion include:

    Background to energy efficiency

    • Decentralised energy
    • Fuel cells, Solar energy, alternatively fuelled transport, overcoming regulatory barriers, cogeneration and trigeneration community and district energy policy's & solutions
    • The first fuel cell energy plant in the UK, liquified natural gas refuse transport fleet and Climate Neutral Development

    International Energy Advisory Council (IEAC)

    Energy of Everything – The Future

    • New developments in solar cells and batteries,
    • Electric vehicle changes in behaviour,
    • Vehicle to grid (V2G),
    • UK gas heating ban for new homes from 2025,
    • Committee on Climate Change proposals to the replace the UK’s natural gas infrastructure with a hydrogen gas infrastructure, green hydrogen and Australian projects to export green hydrogen currently under way.

    Engineering Ignition Podcast by Bonfire Recruitment - www.bonfirerecruitment.com www.bonfireengineering.com

    • 55 min
    Where Next for Offshore Wind? With Steven Jermy, Executive Chairman of Wave Hub Ltd

    Where Next for Offshore Wind? With Steven Jermy, Executive Chairman of Wave Hub Ltd

    Welcome to this weeks Engineering Ignition Podcast, hosted by Scott Buchanan.
    We discuss - " Where next for offshore wind in the UK?"

    • What is floating offshore wind?
    • Why are we getting excited about Offshore Wind Energy?
    • Who should be interested in Offshore wind energy?

    This week Scott is joined by Steven Jermy, the executive chairman of Wavehub limited for the Experts & Leaders series. Steven is a fellow at the nautical institute and also at the institute of marine-engineering, science, and technology. He is a passionate offshore renewable energy professional and chartered marine renewables technologist with wide ranging operational and technical leadership experience.

    In addition to being chairman at wavehub Steven is a non-executive director for “lead for energy & marine" at Cornwall & Isle of Scilly local enterprise partnership and is the managing director of Tide Mills Ltd which is a tidal energy project development company focussing on the delivery of tidal range.

    Engineering Ignition Podcast sponsored by Bonfire Recruitment - https://www.bonfirerecruitment.com https://www.bonfireengineering.com

    • 24 min
    "Accessing India" with Steven Fawkes

    "Accessing India" with Steven Fawkes

    Welcome to this weeks Engineering Ignition Podcast, hosted by Scott Buchanan.

    Scott is joined by Steven Fawkes, the Managing Partner of EnergyPro Ltd, www.energyproltd.com and is also a Partner at Cameron Barney, www.cameronbarney.com.

    Steven has been exposed to a number of energy related challenges over his tenure and has a superb perspective on:

    Energy efficiency
    Energy sustainability
    Energy transition

    and how to improve energy productivity within organisations of varying sizes and scale across the globe.

    Today Scott & Steven discuss “Accessing India” an incredible piece of his encapsulating career and also how he led the UK’s entrance into the Indian Energy market, what an incredible journey!

    This podcast focuses on Stevens journey of energy efficiency, energy sustainability and improving energy productivity to the Indian government and how this scenario positioned the UK to be in a strong position to introduce new business streams building on Stevens experience by taking energy transition focused businesses to India.

    Engineering Ignition Podcast sponsored by www.energyproltd.com, Bonfire Recruitment - www.bonfirerecruitment.com & www.bonfireengineering.com

    • 40 min
    Hot Topic - The importance of servitization in manufacturing with Paddy Dwyer

    Hot Topic - The importance of servitization in manufacturing with Paddy Dwyer

    Welcome to this weeks manufacturing ignition hot topic, hosted by Terry Mallin.

    We discuss - "The importance of servitization in manufacturing with Paddy Dwyer"

    Delighted to have Paddy Dwyer who is the Co Head for Manufacturing in the UK for DLA Piper on the show to discuss the importance of servitization in manufacturing.

    Paddy focuses his practice on commercial contracts and distribution arrangements. Paddy qualified in August 2009 and now often leads on large scale commercial contracting projects including large scale outsourcings for both the private and public sector, remodelling of distribution systems, supply chain arrangements and management of business resources including IT capabilities and IP licensing requirements.

    Additionally, a number of Paddys clients operate within the manufacturing sector and he regularly provides advice relating to multi-jurisdictional contracts, including servitization, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

    DLA Piper is a global law firm across 40 countries working with companies ranging from multinational, Global 1000 and Fortune 500 to emerging companies developing industry leading tech.

    Paddy's contact details :
    www.linkedin.com/in/paddydwyer/
    paddy.dwyer@dlapiper.com

    Manufacturing Ignition Podcast sponsored by Bonfire Recruitment - www.bonfirerecruitment.com

    • 30 min

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