COP26

M-Four is thrilled to announce that our Associate Director Dave Falla will be speaking at an EU side event at COP26.

The session, titled “How Civil Society and Businesses engage in Climate Action - and where Policymakers need to follow”, will be hosted in by M-Four in collaboration with other organisations who advocate for ambitious climate policies, and the implementation of innovative climate measures, on the ground that empower citizens to become part of the solution.

We have partnered with the following groups who do fantastic work across Europe to work towards saving our planet and implementing real changes for a better, safer world:

BUND - Germany
Conscience Consulting – Belgium
Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA)

This session will take place virtually at 11.30am on 11th November 2021, and will be free to attend to participants from across the globe. Our interactive session will run for one hour and will be streamed on a dedicated events platform, which will also contain session and speakers' information, various shared communication tools and networking options.  

The event will showcase how different stakeholders, particularly from civil society and the business sector, engage in national climate policies and implement concrete measures at the local level around the world. Case studies will specify where political, institutional and regulatory support is needed to mainstream and scale these experiences to raise climate ambition and create co-benefits.

More details on how to book your place will be available soon.

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In partnership with nghomes, we are pleased to present a unique event for social housing leaders, which will run every weekday during the COP26 conference, from 3pm - 9pm.

ng homes’, supported by the Scottish Government’s Social Housing Net-Zero Heat Fund and our partners, The McDermott Group, Easy Heat Systems and M-Four, would like to invite Social Housing Leaders to experience the work they have undertaken to improve the lives of their tenants in North Glasgow.

The event will give an insight into how the project was conceived, how funding applications were developed and how the system was installed and commissioned.

At 3pm, guests will be picked up at a suitable location in Glasgow, in a state-of-the-art, fully electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro bus, the short distance to ng homes' properties in Springburn for an informative tour and account of their market leading project. They would welcome all questions on this project and encourage all delegates to be as inquisitive as possible during the tour.

Afterwards delegates will be driven to the Dakota Hotel EuroCentral for informal networking and a complimentary dinner at 6pm. To round off the day the bus will return to the original pick-up spot in Glasgow in the evening, around 9pm.

Places on the COVID-secure bus are limited.

Bookings are now open, and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. It will be free of charge to attend this event.

If you have any questions about the event or want to book your place, please do not hesitate to contact the event lead, Dave Falla at endfuelpoverty@m-four.org

Over the past five years, M-Four have been working closely with registered social landlords, providing consultancy services to improve energy efficiency for more than 18,000 properties across Scotland.

In the last twelve months we have helped several clients by developing feasibility studies and investment-grade business cases to secure over £15m of grant funding from the Scottish Government Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme (LCITP) and the recently launched Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund.

In tandem with additional soft loan funding from the Energy Saving Trust, our social housing clients have injected more than £30m of investment into housing regeneration, improving energy efficiency, tackling fuel poverty and energy inequality.
Our in-house consultants are experts in collecting information relating to housing stock condition, heating systems, energy conservation measures, and futhermore, we are all passionate about our ‘crazy’ goal of eradicating fuel poverty in Scotland.

Our expert consultants are on hand to help social housing providers roadmap their journey to EESSH2 compliance, so if we can help please get in touch.

As part of an LCITP application, ng homes wanted to be able to monitor temperature and humidity within properties to carry out a before and after appraisal of heating consumption and fuel poverty, should they successfully win funding for the work.

To facilitate this, M-Four installed 600 Temperature and humidity sensors into more than 250 homes and the installation of 3 V2 LoRaWAN Gateways.

Utilising our highly-skilled team of data scientists, they were able to develop an interesting profile of heat consumption, proving that enhanced measures were required to retain heat in these properties. As part of the appraisal, we surveyed the tenants of properties with a sensor installed as to their health and wellbeing.

Our data scientists found a reverse heat profile in 63% of the properties with sensors installed. In other words, heat is not being retained after the heating is turned off and as a result, a secondary heating system must be used later in the day to restore heat into homes. In effect, tenants are paying double to heat their homes. The results of our health and wellbeing survey indicated that 68% of those polled reported being in fuel poverty, which reflected the results obtained through our data insight.

Additionally, we were able to monitor temperature and humidity spikes to identify when a secondary heating source was being used and, given the spike in humidity, we were alerted to the use of heating sources that use Calor gas bottles. This allows quick intervention by the Association.

Get in touch to see how M-Four can support your business.

In January 2020, we were appointed by Cloch Housing Association (CHA) to undertake an options appraisal for the replacement of a communal gas-fired heating system that served a flatted development of 15 properties.

At the time, the existing system was operational but had reached its expected operational life. Parts were now obsolete, and the underfloor heating system connecting to the boilers weren’t balanced, which was causing heating issues throughout the building.

We developed an options appraisal that examined a number of heating systems but narrowed down the field to the three most viable systems.

Options were presented to the client in a report, including details of CAPEX costs, lifecycle and running costs and energy efficiency. The report also provided a detailed spend profile for each system so that the client could budget accordingly. As part of the appraisal, we also discussed funding opportunities currently available through the Energy Saving Trust, DH Loan Fund and Renewable Heat Incentive.

Even within a tight deadline, we completed a comprehensive appraisal that will allow the client to make an informed decision on the option to best meet their needs.

Paul McGolgan, Property Services Manager, said “In 2019 Cloch Housing Association appointed M-Four to provide an options appraisal report for the renewal of a communal heating system.

We were impressed with the level of detail and information provided which ultimately allowed us to progress to agree the best solution which meets the criteria set out by Cloch for this project”

Get in touch to see how M-Four can support your business.