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News Release from: Sentinel Performance Solutions
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2008
Sentinel wins fourth HandV Award
Sentinel wins prestigious award for partnering arrangement with Liverpool Housing Trust, its fourth consecutive HandV Award on the trot.
At the recent awards ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane, Sentinel's Danny Knight collected the 'Partnering Initiative of the Year' award from award winning comic Rob Brydon in front of more than 1100 guests from the heating industry The initiative won the award for its contribution to 'measurable benefits' that saw the average costs of each domestic heating installation undertaken by LHT dropping from GBP3000 to around GBP2200
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company was also short-listed for the 'Marketing Initiative of the Year', for its energy efficiency campaign, designed to help reduce energy use and emissions.
From Sentinel's point of view, the initiative was a prime example of best practice.
A clean system helps a technologically advanced piece of equipment like a condensing boiler to operate better and to optimum efficiency levels.
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There is no point in investing in a top quality, high efficiency boiler and expecting it to operate well on a mucky system.
It won't, and debris in a heating system will quickly damage its components - the heat exchanger in the boiler, the valves, the pump and the pipework, not to mention the radiators clogging up with scale and black magnetite sludge from corrosion within the system.
There was no point LHT investing in quality new heating systems for their tenants only for those new systems to rapidly deliver inferior performance levels because of the failure to invest in the treatment required to keep the system operating at maximum efficiency.
This would result in higher energy bills for the tenants and higher maintenance costs for LHT.
Sentinel introduced a testing regime as part of their input to the Partnering agreement, to ensure that every system was indeed cleaned and treated with inhibitor - a random testing regime that saw samples of system water sent to Sentinel to test.
Sentinel and LHT devised a very simple 'traffic light' system - red was a fail, green was a pass and amber was a pass but one where attention was needed.
Danny Knight who headed up the project for Sentinel says: "We believe that our role as a partner in this initiative provides a template for successful partnership for the future for component manufacturers and suppliers in the HVAC sector".
"It highlights how working closely with a customer can deliver mutual benefits to each other and result in attaining the goals both set from the initiative".
"It also has allowed us to put in place a number of internal initiatives - training, testing and others, that we can now confidently offer to our partners".
Full details of all the products in the extensive Sentinel product range can be found at the Sentinel website.
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