Environmental Consultants

Innovas East have been working with emda and their regional partners in the East Midlands, to develop a strategy for developing a shared Environmental Evidence Base, and to seek European Funding to support that project.

Richard Jones worked with the Climate Group to help source European project Funding.

Richard Jones is the Project Manager of the REF Project for Mixlance (Technical Services) Ltd.

Richard Jones was co–author of the Broadband for Rural Areas Best Practice Study for the UK Countryside Agency.

Richard Jones was a founding player in the development of the EcoTech Centre project the centre for sustainability in Swaffham, Norfolk.

EETDT was originally a sustainability and economic development initiative.

Richard Jones was Project Manager of the MDU project for Cranfield University.

The Climate Group

The Climate Group is an independent, nonprofit organisation, based in the UK, and operating internationally, dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change. The organisation was founded in 2004 by a diverse group of companies, governments and supporters who saw the opportunity to create new momentum in the international effort to stop global warming.

Proactive companies, states and cities around the world are demonstrating that cuts in greenhouse gases required to stop climate change can be achieved whilst growing the bottom line. Using the work of these leaders as a catalyst, The Climate Group works to accelerate international action on global warming with a new, strong focus on practical solutions.

REF Project

Richard Jones was the Project Manager of the REF project for Mixlance (Technical Services) Ltd. - the REF project is a €5M project supported with €1M of European Funding from LIFE Environment to develop a range of new technologies to reduce energy use and atmospheric pollution in the manufacture of Asphalt. The project was awarded the best of the best LIFE Environment projects - the first UK project ever to do so.

Broadband for Rural Areas

Intercai Mondiale carried out the Broadband in Rural Areas: Best Practice Study for the UK Countryside Agency during 2003. Richard Jones developed a Broadband voucher business model, which sought to use public sector funding to empower the rurally deprived citizen and to stimulate rather than distort the Broadband market.

EcoTech

Richard Jones was a founding player in the development of the EcoTech Centre project the centre for sustainability in Swaffham, Norfolk.

The EcoTech Centre was successful in winning €3M from European Funding and €1.5M from UK funding in 1995, and was an official Millennium Product.

The EcoTech Centre was developed as an Environmental Technologies Research and Development Park, to be clustered around an Environmental Technologies Education and Science Centre. The focal point of the EcoTech Centre was the distinctive Wind Turbine, which includes a viewing platform, which has already been visited by over 50,000 people. The unique public viewing platform, designed by Foster & Partners, is situated just below the hub and can be reached by climbing a 300-step spiral staircase inside the tower.

The Turbine was the UK's first multi-megawatt wind turbine and one of a new generation of direct drive, variable speed wind turbines, brought to the UK by Ecotricity. It produces enough electricity for around 3,000 people - over a third of the population of Swaffham. This world leading wind converter incorporates unique design advancements and refinements to increase aerodynamic efficiency and reduce noise.

Support for the Wind Turbines within Swaffham has been so great, that the small town now boasts a total of eight Wind Turbines.

EETDT

EETDT was originally a sustainability and economic development initiative. EETDT encourages tele-working to reduce travel and subsequent pollution and improve quality of life.

MDU project

Richard Jones was the Project Manager of the MDU project for Marcus Newborough at Cranfield University: The project was funded with SMART funding to test the feasibility of a Multiple Drive Unit to power Micro-CHP; whereby banks of multiple engines could be brought into use and taken out of use whilst still distributing their power out to a common drive shaft. The successful initiative has since been followed by a succession of Micro-CHP Research projects.

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