Heat recovery potential of leisure centres: opportunities, challenges, and risks. A panel discussion
Description
Climate change poses significant challenges and the global community is not on track to meet sustainable development targets or the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic and necessary government measures to curb the spread of the virus has put climate action on hold and shut down economies. The need for improved ventilation as an important mitigating factor against the risk of Covid-19 transmission has additional implications for additional costs and emissions for businesses.
Leisure centres, as large users of water and energy, are faced with high operational costs and will also be generating significant emissions of greenhouse gases. However, heat recovery technology can yield very significant reductions in water and water-related energy demands and costs without impacting service quality and delivery. These reductions can be a promising response to the current challenges of climate change and post-Covid-19 economic recovery.
To discuss energy demands in leisure centres and the important contributions to emissions and cost reductions that can be made through heat recovery, the Dŵr Uisce project (https://www.dwr-uisce.eu/) is hosting an expert panel discussion on heat recovery as one of the several ways these reductions can be made.
The panellists will be discussing a range of questions and some of the current opportunities, challenges, and risks associated with installing heat recovery in leisure centres in order to promote conversation and ideas on how leisure centres can take action that can save costs and improve their environmental footprint in the process.
MEET THE PANELISTS AND SPEAKERS
Objectives
The objectives of the panel discussion are:
To introduce our research on heat recovery in leisure centres to key stakeholders
To discuss possible options to these challenges of climate change and post Covid-19 economic recovery
To develop partnerships and a network of people working on reducing the operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions associated with leisure centres
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome and introductions
14:05 – 14:15 Opening remarks
14:15 - 15:55 Panel discussion
15:55 – 15:20 Live Q&A and interactive session with audience
15:20 - 15:25 Closing remarks from all speakers
15:25 – 15:30 Closing and next steps
Date: Tuesday 23 February 2021
Time: 2 – 3:30pm GMT
Venue: Online via Teams
Please submit questions to the panel to a.bellodambatta@bangor.ac.uk by Monday 15 February 2021. There will also be an opportunity for live Q&A during the event.