Energy and Resource Efficiency without the tears
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Niall Enright is a graduate of Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Chartered Energy Manager who has worked on hundreds of energy and resource efficiency programmes worldwide since the early 1990s. This experience was gained as both a director and senior project manager for several leading global consulting firms, as well as a change agent within large and complex organizations.This book is a comprehensive exploration of the management aspects of energy and resource efficiency. “If you read the self-congratulatory case studies organizations put out about their achievements, you would be forgiven for thinking that this efficiency stuff is easy.” In fact, the landscape is littered with disappointment, premature declarations of victory, exaggeration (to put it mildly) and outright failure. Drawing on three decades working on programmes for global giants like BP, Unilever, Hilton International, Rio Tinto, L’Oreal, The World Bank and numerous public institutions, as well as eight years as Sustainability Director for Peel Land and Property Group, Niall Enright shares the insider’s insight on what works and what doesn’t. It is an enthusiastic, candid, compelling and authoritative exploration of why programmes succeed or fail.The book starts with a review of contemporary issues around resource efficiency, the value that this offers to organizations and the many barriers that exist. A framework is set out to enable programmes at all scales and in any sector to achieve success. Structured around three pillars, Mandate, Method and Momentum, the framework offers a flexible approach to enhance, renew or design an improvement programme that will drive maximum value and endure in the long run. In the second section of the book, over 200 proven techniques that deliver improvement are explored in detail, accompanied by countless real-world examples. This book is eminently practical. It addresses the toughest challenges,
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