Energy costs make you look at things

[Monkeybusiness]

Schools and hospitals to get solar panels

The government has announced a £200m programme of fitting solar panels to English schools and hospitals.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" The government has announced a £200m programme of fitting solar panels to English schools and hospitals.

200 schools and 200 hospitals will be fitted with solar panels
The first project from Great British Energy, the new government-owned renewable energy investment body, is to put solar panels on around 200 schools and 200 NHS sites in England.
Around £80m in funding will support around 200 schools, alongside £100m for nearly 200 NHS sites, covering a third of NHS trusts, to install solar panels.
The first panels are expected to be in schools and hospitals by the end of this summer, saving schools money for the next academic year. "

Surely it doesn’t cost anywhere near half a million quid to install solar on a school or hospital? How do these projects get signed off ffs, what a massive waste of money?!

 

[William127]

Surely it doesn’t cost anywhere near half a million quid to install solar on a school or hospital? How do these projects get signed off ffs, what a massive waste of money?!

School roof we put a massive enclosure on around 2 heat pumps last year had the rest of the roof covered in solar panels. Next year they're all coming off then going back on so they can replace the roof. The year after that the school is getting closed!!! All in the name of 'decarbonisation', which as far as I can see consists of ripping out perfectly serviceable boilers and replacing them with heat pumps that aren't up to the job....

 

[Lancs Lad]

Surely it doesn’t cost anywhere near half a million quid to install solar on a school or hospital? How do these projects get signed off ffs, what a massive waste of money?!

Exactly !!! I got quoted 45k for a 36KW system fully installed etc ages ago
Surely they'll be getting better rates etc...
As usual the big lads will be in the trough screwing the government.
If ever there was a scandal that needs the lid lifting on it's big infrastructure projects.

 

[V8Druid]

Exactly !!! I got quoted 45k for a 36KW system fully installed etc ages ago
Surely they'll be getting better rates etc...
As usual the big lads will be in the trough screwing the government.
If ever there was a scandal that needs the lid lifting on it's big infrastructure projects.

sad part is it's the wrong ppl doing it

MPs and Lords launch inquiry into infrastructure project delivery

Newly formed group gives interested parties until 6 May to respond

www.building.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

So they will be directly employed installers or just another load of bs jobs using sub contractors

what do you think??

 

[V8Druid]

sad part is it's the wrong ppl doing it

MPs and Lords launch inquiry into infrastructure project delivery

Newly formed group gives interested parties until 6 May to respond

www.building.co.uk

https://www.theconstructionindex.co...omises-new-era-for-uk-infrastructure-delivery

another committee/quango that'll fail miserably ... but more jobs for the boys

" The NIC was created in 2015 to provide independent analysis and advice to the government to set out the UK’s long-term infrastructure needs. That its recommendations were so easily ignored by government – witness cancellation of the both northern legs of HS2 and slowness to deliver on energy projects – are testament to its failure. The NIC was meant to ‘take the politics out of infrastructure’ by building a consensus of experts. Yet infrastructure remains political – and prone to delays and cost over-runs.

In 2017 the NIC became an executive agency of the Treasury, thus losing its independence. Now the new government has gone a step further and merged it with the Cabinet Office’s own executive infrastructure office, the IPA.

While the National Infrastructure Commission has formally been abolished, the commissioners themselves – the independent experts – will now form an advisory council for NISTA. It is not yet clear how different, in practice, the NISTA Advisory Council will be from the National Infrastructure Commission. "

 

[V8Druid]

" “A Bill will be introduced to allow local leaders to take control of their local bus services [Better Buses Bill] " good luck with that one
" .. establishing Great British Railways and bringing train 8 operators into public ownership [Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, Rail Reform Bill]. " and then run HS2 slower from brum to manchy-land on existing tracks and, AND, AND discourage ppl from using trains
" legislate to introduce a new deal for working people to ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights [Employment Rights Bill] " so it'll be even more difficult to sack useless, idle tw*ts
" an English Devolution Bill. Legislation will be introduced to give new powers to metro mayors and combined authorities. " can't even get the bins emptied reliably/regularly .. god help anything else
" setting up an independent football regulator " WTF has that got to do with a government FFS

"We're doomed, I tell you, DOOMED"

Camb.s CC not doing too well with this one

Council fined £6m for guided busway safety fails

Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m after pleading guilty to serious safety failings on its guided busway network that has led to three deaths and multiple injuries over the past 10 years.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[6feetdown]

Camb.s CC not doing too well with this one

Council fined £6m for guided busway safety fails

Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m after pleading guilty to serious safety failings on its guided busway network that has led to three deaths and multiple injuries over the past 10 years.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

Bus lanes scurge of zooport

 

[V8Druid]

Bus lanes scurge of zooport

and every other town/city that has them