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Asked by katnic to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 18 Jun 2014.
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Cathy Fraser answered on 18 Jun 2014:
I’d like to look at how people use energy and ways in which to change their usage – so possibly to role swap with Jaz!
During the day the electricity that we use varies dramatically and we get ‘peaks’ in the afternoon/evening. If we could flatten these out, then the uncertainty that is currently there would be removed and we’d know more accurately what energy we needed!
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Mark Greaves answered on 18 Jun 2014:
I’d like to work on one of our 4,000+ sites as a Production Engineer. This would allow me to thoroughly optimise the site from start to finish. Trying to save as much power as possible whilst extracting as much useful energy as possible.
Cathy has mentioned electricity peaks in the day, the same happens with water and sewage. Mornings and evenings see huge increases in demand/use whilst everyone showers before/after work, we call this a diurnal flow pattern.
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Jaz Rabadia answered on 18 Jun 2014:
I’d like to help as many other business as possible save energy.. so i think next i could work for an energy supplier that has lots of customers. maybe i could go round to their customers and tell them about all the projects i have done at sainsburys and debenhams to give them ideas
@cathy – come work with me – its so much fun 🙂
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Rory Hadden answered on 18 Jun 2014:
My next big project is to look at how buildings made of wood can be built so that they don’t burn down if there is a fire inside the building.
It may sound crazy but people want to build up to 50 or more storey buildings using wood as the structure of the building (in the place of the steel and concrete we use now). This is really good because the trees can be grown again so CO2 emissions are reduced, and the building can rebuilt faster.
The problem at the moment is that no one knows what happens if there is a fire in one of these buildings. We don’t know how big the fire will get, how the fire brigade can put it out or even how much smoke is produced. This means that the rules say they cannot be built.
I hope to answer these questions so that we can build big buildings using wood so that we can take advantage of the environmentally friendly properties of wood.
Rory
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Roma Agrawal answered on 19 Jun 2014:
I’d love to work on a crazy bridge sometime! They are quite different from buildings so I think I’d learn lots about that. I did a small bridge in Newcastle but maybe a bigger one.
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