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Biomass Heat Pods being delivered to site
Buckinghamshire County Council Biomass Framework
Rural Energy was appointed by Buckinghamshire County Council to design, install and maintain nine biomass heating systems across the county, in a contract...
Cherry Trees Care Home
Cherry trees Care Home, a purpose-built Barchester Health Care home on the outskirts of Stratford-Upon-Avon, is a 24-hour nursing care centre for older people...
John Cleveland College plant room opening
John Cleveland College & Green Fox Community Energy
Green Fox Community Energy is a volunteer-run energy cooperative set up by a team of local volunteers in 2012 to enable community-led action for sustainable...
Ben Herz engineer at Blackpool The Harbour
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust: The Harbour
Over the past decade, the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has been redeveloping its existing inpatient mental health wards and investing in new facilities...
Heat Pod craned to site
NHS Dumfries & Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway NHS has committed to meeting carbon reduction targets for oil, gas, butane and propane usage to be reduced annually by 3% to 2014/15. The...
The fuel store and biomass boiler in the plant room
NHS Crichton Royal Hospital
Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries is an NHS Dumfries and Galloway site. The boiler house supplies three hospitals of varying size and age along with other...
Campsmount Academy
Campsmount Academy
Campsmount Academy in Doncaster is a newly constructed school replacing the original school building which suffered from bad fire damage.    This essential...
Opening Beacon College's biomass installation in 2006
Beacon College
Beacon College is a thriving specialist sport, science and training community college in Crowborough, East Sussex. A project to provide heating and hot water...
Biomass boiler at Brunel University
Brunel University
Brunel University’s Eastern Gateway building is the centre of the Brunel University’s Business School facilities in Birmingham. This £32m flagship building has...
City of Derby Academy
City of Derby Academy
The City of Derby Academy project began after the loss ofthe local community school buildings due to fire. Today, this Academy educates 800 11-16 year old...
Institute for Manufacturing building at Cambridge
Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
Part of the University of Cambridge’s Engineering department, the Institute for Manufacturing brings together management, policy and technology in engineering ...
JCoSS Jewish Community Secondary School
JCoSS is the UK's first Jewish, cross-communal state funded secondary school, catering on an equal basis to the needs of the entire Jewish community.   By 2017...
Judgemeadow School is now home to a Herz BioMatic
Judgemeadow College
Judgemeadow Community College, based in the East of Leicester, is a multicultural college serving around 1200 students across the area.    Part of the Building...
Madani High School in Leicester
Madani High School
The Madani High School and Community Centre is the first purpose-built Islamic faith secondary school in the country.    Construction of the school was...
800kW Herz BioFire retrofit at Milne's High School
Milne's High School
Milnes High School is a 1980s high school set in beautiful countryside, just a stone’s throw from Spey Bay on the Scottish coastline.   The remote location...
Plant room in production
Blessed John Henry Newman Roman Catholic College
Newman Roman Catholic (RC) College was created in 2012 by the amalgamation of Weneth’s St Augustine of Canterbury and Royston’s Our Lady’s Roman Catholic High ...
The original Herz Firematic now faces a new Herz BioMatic from phase 2
Nottingham University Samworth Academy (NUSA)
The NUSA Academy, located on the site of the former William Sharp School in Bilborough, opened its doors to the first influx of pupils in September 2009, with...
Stanley Park High School in construction phase
Stanley Park High School
Stanley Park High School in Surrey is an ever growing and very popular school. Having quickly grown from 800 to over 1000 students in the space of four years,...
The Waterhead Academy building
Waterhead Academy
Replacing two previous schools in Breeze Hill and Counthill,Waterhead Academy is a £26million new build campus that opened in late 2012 in Oldham, Greater...
Fuel agitator from adjacent fuel store
Whitford Primary School
Consisting of a self-contained biomass plant room and fuel store, Rural Energy’s Heat Pod, supplies this Welsh primary school with renewable heating using wood...
Fuel store delivery
NHS Wythenshawe Hospital Cardiac Unit
Wythenshawe Hospital, incorporating University Hospital of South Manchester, opened the Northwest Heart Centre in 2011. The unit brings cutting edge technology...