Willmott Dixon Energy Services starts work this month aiming to become a major provider of Green Deal projects and other energy-related services.
The new company is headed by Rob Lambe as managing director, reporting to Willmott Dixon Support Services divisional CEO Chris Durkin.
Mr Lambe said: “With the Green Deal launching in 2012, our Energy Services company will have the scale and knowledge to support our housing customers as they use the Green Deal to take hundreds of thousands of residents out of fuel poverty. We also see renewable energy and micro generation systems as an important part of the solution and believe photo-voltaics still provides a viable source of low cost energy despite the recent government announcement to reduce the feed-in tariff.
“Equally important is the business sector and the growing strategic importance of tackling the impact of energy costs in corporate property.”
Willmott Dixon’s in-house sustainability company Re-Thinking will continue to provide support, guidance and management of the company’s internal low carbon goals and knowledge, while Energy Services will focus on customers’ low carbon challenges.
Mr Durkin said: “The launch of this company is a culmination of a lot of planning and measured assessment of the energy market over the coming years. It brings together our considerable skills with our ability to engage with customers in delivering the low carbon challenges they face. Building on the strength of relationships we already have with clients that are looking at energy efficiency, Willmott Dixon Energy Services will bring strategic value to meet an area that is firmly in the boardroom agenda of both public and private organisations.”
Green projects delivered by Willmott Dixon recently include a Green Deal pilot project in Cambridgeshire and the country’s first zero carbon ‘in use’ school for Islington Council. Willmott Dixon also built Morrisons’ exemplar energy efficient supermarket in Peterborough. This supermarket is said to be the first in Europe to be entirely lit by LED lighting, and one of the first to have no hydrofluorocarbons in its refrigeration system.
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