Judges

Ian Rippin

Chief Executive Officer, Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS)

Andrew Edwards

Business Development Lead - Building Energy Services, Veolia

Mark Dallen

Former Consortium & Stakeholder Manager: ECO

Mark has been in the energy industry for over 36 years and more recently in the energy efficiency obligation area for over 16 years. He has extensive experience of working with stakeholders on the planning and implementation of numerous energy efficiency projects throughout the UK. In particular, Mark has worked closely with ECO installation partners and local authorities on ECO funded and Warm Homes funded schemes to deliver energy efficiency measures to vulnerable customers in community based schemes regionally and nationally. Mark has always been a strong supporter for many years of the Regional and National Energy Efficiency Awards, as this is the ideal high profile event to showcase and support the very best practices and projects that improves people’s lives within the energy efficiency industry.

Stephen Batty

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY, PLACES & COMMUNITIES – CENTRAL REGION , Equans

Steve has worked within the Social Housing Construction Sector for over 24 years. He has a Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management background, then became Head Of Sustainability at EQUANS in 2010 to head up their low carbon retrofit strategy.
Steve now leads on the delivery of zero carbon solutions for EQUANS and has a wealth of knowledge around low carbon retrofit solutions, helping EQUANS’ clients bring retrofit schemes to reality having delivered and managed over £250m of funding to clients over the years including CESP, ECO, FIT, RHI, GHG LAD, SHDF, and ERDF funded schemes.

Dr K T Tan

Technical Director, Viridian Solar

Dr KT Tan is the Technical Director at Viridian Solar, a UK company based in Cambridge with their renowned innovative Clearline Fusion products. He has been devoting his professional life for over a decade to developing products and technologies for the renewable sector. He started to work with solar thermal well before the PV became a mainstream renewable solution. As a Chartered Engineer, he specialises in solar PV new technologies with a particular interest in roof-integrated systems, advanced cell technologies and innovative mounting solutions. He is a member of the Industrial Advisory Panel of the Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sustainable PV, and a member of the GEL/82 Standards Policy and Strategy Committee for PV Systems. He is also the Chair of the MCS Solar PV Technical Working Group. He graduated with an Engineering PhD from University of Cambridge.

Gary Spiers

Construction Project manager, E.On Energy Solutions

Gary Spiers career spans over 22 years, covering all aspects of management, auditing, and Installations measures within the industry.

Dani Putney

Quality & Risk Officer, Certsure LLP

Dani Putney has over 14 years’ experience in the Building Engineering Services Sector, working within a leading Certification Body providing UKAS accredited certification services. She has held several positions within Certsure (NICEIC and ELECSA) and is currently responsible for ensuring that accreditation is maintained for the Group’s activities.
She represents Certsure (NICEIC and ELECSA) at various industry committees including Chair of the MCS Competency Working Group, member of PAS2030 Steering Committee and participating in the Each Home Counts Work streams

Rachel Jones

Chair, West Midlands Association of Local Energy Officers

Rachel Jones is the Chair of West Midlands Association of Local Energy Officers which is a not-for-profit organisation supporting local government officers and housing professionals with a remit for reducing all aspects of the UK’s domestic-sector carbon footprint and tackling energy poverty. Rachel is an experienced energy professional specialising in the delivery of energy efficiency measures across communities and working with UK home energy policy to achieve this. Rachel has worked with numerous local authorities and other organisations to develop and embed energy and energy efficiency into their strategic plans with a focus on home energy. Rachel has been working in the energy sector for over 15 years and is CEO of Act on Energy.

Neil Whitfield

Consultant

Neil has been in the Construction, Training and Education sector for over 40 years and has built a reputation of setting and maintaining high standards.
As the founder of OSCAR-onsite he continues to work with Certification Bodies, Awarding Bodies and National Occupational Standards in developing formal NVQ Qualifications further raising standards, this ensures that installers achieve the recognition for their skills and produce high quality installations.
Cavity Wall Extraction has been of particular interest as this is key along with property condition to ensure that the insulation performs to its optimum.
Now working as an independent consultant and a Lecturer in Further Education providing expert advice on all matters of training and development within Energy Efficiency Measures and the wider Construction methodologies.
Neil has been in the Construction, Training and Education sector for over 40 years and has built a reputation of setting and maintaining high standards.
As the founder of OSCAR-onsite he continues to work with Certification Bodies, Awarding Bodies and National Occupational Standards in developing formal NVQ Qualifications further raising standards, this ensures that installers achieve the recognition for their skills and produce high quality installations.
Cavity Wall Extraction has been of particular interest as this is key along with property condition to ensure that the insulation performs to its optimum.
Now working as an independent consultant and a Lecturer in Further Education providing expert advice on all matters of training and development within Energy Efficiency Measures and the wider Construction methodologies.

Andy Merrin

Commercial Director, Enerlyze Consulting

Elinor Rice

Technical Director, Quidos

Elinor was employed by City Energy after completing a Master's degree in Business Economics with Finance. Elinor has been with the company as it first started utilising the Green Deal Finance Company and accessing ECO Funding. As Compliance Manager, Elinor ensures that City Energy adheres to the changing rules and regulations. She has recently become Technical Director for City Energy

James Higgins

Partner, Ecuity Consulting LLP

Ian Naismith

1A Naismith Energy Assessors

After working for 14 years at Glasgow City Council as an inspector of privately let properties in multiple occupation, I decided to make use of this experience and expertise in property and energy assessment. I became a fully qualified domestic and commercial energy assessor and set up the Ian Naismith Energy Assessor business in April 2009.

Also in 2009, I became a distributor for the Utility Warehouse Discount Club, a logical extension to my main business.

Local Surveyors Direct
The Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors (IDEA)
A member of BNI Glasgow Alba Chapter
A member of Synergy Business Services Club
And when I get some time off, I’m a member of Strathaven Golf Club
And of course, I’m a member of 4Networking in Glasgow.

Karl Drage, CEng, MEng, MIMechE, DMS, ACGI, MIOD

Chief Executive Officer, Coefficient Renewable Heating Solutions Limited

Carl Harvey

Director, My Home Survey Ltd

Carl Harvey works as an independent retrofit coordinator at My Home Survey Ltd, a business that Carl established in 2006 and now delivers a full suite of retrofit coordination services including Pulse air permeability testing, and as the senior retrofit coordinator at Osmosis ACD Ltd overseeing the PAS 2035 process within the business and promoting best practice in the industry.

Clint Walker

Fidura Consulting

Clint is the Founder and Director of Fidura Consulting Ltd, supporting businesses across the energy efficiency, retrofit and net zero sectors with partnerships, commercial growth and strategic direction.
Having worked across operational, commercial and partnership roles within the sector, Clint set up Fidura to offer businesses experienced support without the need to appoint a full-time senior hire. His work is focused on helping his clients build the right relationships, develop new opportunities, improve their proposition and navigate a fast-changing market.
Clint’s approach is practical, straightforward and built around understanding how businesses actually operate, not just how they look on paper

Gregory Elliott

Independent

Gregory Elliott is Property Services Director for Vibrant Energy Matters, the largest EPC supplier in the UK carrying out over 160K instructions per year. He hass been involved in the EPC industry from conception, with over 10 years in the property sector and overseen many changes. The most exciting has being within the energy sector, having worked with Birmingham Council with the first go early EPC scheme in 2007 to one of the first Green Deal Advise Reports. Experience gained from working with most of the Big Six energy companies on several ECO projects has given him both insight and an understanding on the opportunity that ECO and the Green Deal brings to the industry.

Adrian Hull

Chairman, Association for Technical Monitoring Agents (ATMA)

Adrian Hull is owner of leading quality assurance and compliance business, THS Inspection Services Ltd and MD of THS Retrofit Solutions Ltd. In the last 21 years he has delivered over £1bn worth of public funded domestic energy efficiency measures across the UK and Canada. He is Chair of ATMA, and a member of the PAS2030 and PAS2035 Steering Groups.

Frank Harris

Director, HD Services Ltd

Katie Searle

Senior Project Manager, Energy Saving Trust

Katie joined the Energy Saving Trust in 2007 and has an in-depth knowledge of product assurance and certification across a broad range of product categories including insulation, glazing and heating products. She graduated from the University of Greenwich with a degree in Environmental Science and began her career in insurance. Katie has previously been responsible for the set up and management of an accredited Green Deal Installer certification scheme and more recently is leading project co-ordination of a three year European funded programme developing digital tools to better inform consumer buying choices of energy efficient products.

Mark Weaver

Head of Business Development, Alsecco

Mark has worked in senior Sales and Marketing roles within the Construction Products sector for the past thirty years. Mark is now Head of Business Development for Alsecco, a major supplier of facades solutions and part of the International DAW Group. Mark has been actively involved for many years in the Energy Efficiency and Retrofit sector and was Chair of SWIGA, the solid wall industry guarantee scheme during its inception. Mark is presently acting Vice-Chair of INCA, the leading External Wall Insulation trade association. Cycling, football and his family are what keep Mark sane out of working hours.

Michael Morrall

Ciga Council Member & Head of Retail, Dyson Energy Services

Michael's journey in the energy efficiency industry has been very much hands on and varied from Building Surveying, On-site Technical Monitoring and Quality Supervision, Senior Operations Management and most recently Business Development. Michael has a proven track record in the development and delivery of large scale Insulation, Heating, Renewable and Energy Assessment projects in partnership with Energy Companies, Local Authorities, Social and Private Landlords. Michael has developed some long standing relationships with Local Authorities nationwide for community based schemes delivering energy efficiency measures to those whom are most vulnerable. His primary focus in the immediate is to continue the nationwide development of existing and new partnerships for ECO & LA Flex supported measures as well as the expansion of the Merchant Distribution and Retail divisions of Dyson Energy Services.

Patrick Allcorn

Head of Local Energy, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Peter Sumby

NEA-National Energy Action

Peter Sumby has worked at NEA, the national fuel poverty charity, since 1996 and has been Director of Operations since 2006. Peter is a member of NEA's senior management team and is responsible for the delivery of NEA's practical work programmes. These seek to demonstrate innovative ways of bringing affordable warmth to low income and vulnerable households and are delivered in partnership with local authorities, housing associations, the health sector, the community sector, energy company partners and others. Peter leads a team of with expertise in delivering energy advice, tackling fuel debt and delivering income maximisation services. Peter’s role involves developing strategic partnerships to enable the delivery of NEA’s programmes and to manage relationships with those national and local agencies with whom NEA needs to engage in order to deliver projects that tackle fuel poverty. Peter's role is also to ensure that lessons learned from project delivery are incorporated into NEA's policy development process in order to inform NEA's advisory role to government, local government and the wider energy sector.

Simon Ayers

Chief Executive Officer, Each Home Counts (TrustMark)

Having worked across a number of energy sectors over the course of his career, Simon Ayers has witnessed (and participated in) the evolution of Energy Efficiency as a concept.
Now as Chief Executive of TrustMark, Simon is actively involved in helping consumers find competent, local tradespeople to carry out energy-efficient installations in and around their homes.
Deeply committed to the continual raising of standards of energy efficiency, Simon is keen to recognise and champion organisations demonstrating excellence in this field, without sacrificing their corporate values and commercial success.
As such it is with delight that Simon is involved as a judge at this years Energy Efficiency Awards, and he looks forward to celebrating the achievements of those leading the field in this sector.