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Technical Services Division Technical Services A division of the Operational Services Directorate
Technical Services Division
Technical Services
A division of the Operational Services Directorate
Technical Services Division
Purpose
• Improving the council’s environmental performance• Management and delivery of construction projects
funded by the council• Maintenance of the council’s built assets• Regulation of the standard of construction undertaken
by others• Reducing Huntingdonshire’s carbon emissions• Reducing fuel poverty
Technical Services Division
Organisation• Projects
– engineering– architectural– facilities management
• Project Management• Building Control• Environment• Administration
Technical Services Division
Management
Head of Technical Services
Richard Preston
Projects & Assets Manager
Chris Allen
Building Control Manager
Barry Holden
Environment Team Leader
Chris Jablonski
Technical Services Division
Environmental Performance• Already promoting sustainability
– Planning policy– Housing strategy– Home energy conservation– Countryside– Building control
• Take credit for what we are doing• Identify the gaps• Adopt a coherent environmental strategy
Technical Services Division
‘Greening the Business’
• Good business case for improved environmental performance
• Reduced costs– Energy: reduce consumption, renewables– Waste: reduce, recycle, reuse– Purchasing: supply chain, specification– Travel: to work, business travel
• Seek accreditation – EMAS or ISO 14001
Technical Services Division
Construction Projects• Feasibility, preliminary and detail design• Tender invitation and evaluation• Construction management and administration• Current projects
– Huntingdon High Street Environmental Improvements– Public Conveniences– Huntingdon Railway Station Bus Interchange– Partnership schemes with CCC and/or Parish Councils
• Reduced capital expenditure
Technical Services Division
Facilities Management
• Compliance with regulatory framework– Legionella, Asbestos, Accessibility, Electrical and Fire
Safety, • Maintaining the value and utility of assets
– Offices, leisure centres, pavilions, bus stations, car parks, public conveniences, depots …
• Energy procurement• Responding to the growth in assets
Technical Services Division
Key Assets
Castle Hill House
Pathfinder House
Godmanchester Depot
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Project Management
• Securing the delivery of capital projects within budget and on-time– New Headquarters and Other Accommodation– Oak Tree Health Centre & Oxmoor– Longsands Enterprise Centre
• Management and reporting of MTP capital programme delivery
• Corporate project management protocols• Developing and maintaining the skill base
Technical Services Division
Oak Tree Centre
Technical Services Division
New District Council Offices
Technical Services Division
New Operations Centre
Technical Services Division
Building Control
• Statutory service regulating standards in building construction – 2000 applications annually
• BSI Registered – ISO 2001 quality assured• Required to be self-financing over three years (£463k pa)• Competes with ‘Approved Inspectors’• Preferred BC provider for Defence Estates (East) • Potential for Local Authority Company• Maintaining competitiveness
Technical Services Division
Home Energy & Renewables
• Statutory targets for reducing domestic energy consumption (30% of 1996 levels by 2012)
• Advice and education for householders on energy efficiency and renewables
• Referrals for grant aided insulation measures– 291 in 2004/05 and 524 in 2005/06
• Reducing fuel poverty and acting as an advocate for fuel poor
• Increased fuel prices = increased demand
Technical Services Division
Miscellany
• Transfer of waste policy activity• Street naming and numbering• Watercourses• Flood alleviation• Responding to emergencies• First time rural sewerage• Liaison with CCC Highways
Technical Services Division
Tackling Climate Change
• Adopt and publicise a strategy • Use regulation to best effect• Set targets for reducing CO2 emissions by source –
domestic, commercial, and transport• Lead by example • Demonstration projects• Raise public awareness of the risks and
opportunities
Technical Services Division
East of England Regional Assembly
Local authorities should seek to draw together thevarious adaptation (and mitigation) responses that are required in a single corporate strategy covering climate change or wider sustainable energy issues… Alternatively, councils should consider the means to properly integrate this agenda into existing strategies …
Living with Climate Change in the East of England
Technical Services Division
Huntingon – coastal resort?
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Huntingdon
Cambridge
Norwich
King’s Lynn
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Felixstowe
Clacton on Sea
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