The Diocese of Ely Church Buildings & Pastoral Department recently held a training day of seminars focusing on Church Heating during June 2023.
The day brought together a wide range of expertise to help churches to understand the options available for church heating, with a real focus on helping parishes to achieve the Net Carbon Zero goal, as adopted by the Diocese of Ely and the Church of England.
Presentations from the day included:
- A path to Net Zero Carbon by Geoffrey Hunter, Diocesan Advisory Committee Secretary and Head of the Church Buildings and Pastoral Department
- Solar panels and heatpump at Waterbeach by Richard Stobart, fabric team at St John the Evangelist, Waterbeach
- General Heating Options for Churches by Bawden Burrows, Director of Building Services at SWECO
- Heat Pumps by Shane Browne of Mitsubishi
- Pew Cushion Heating by Richard Hammerschmidt from KovoSchmidt Pew Heating
- A Case Study of St Mary's Church, March, by Bob Skelton
- Solar PVs on Churches by Alexandros Michalitsianos of Arch:Angel
- Information needed by the Diocesan Advisory Committee by John Morgan, Assistant DAC Secretary.
If you are interested in finding out more about Church Heating options, or were unable to attend, you can access PDFs of these presentations here.