Enigin Advice

Stop Those Office Distractions

By Steve Hill

The Enigin office buzzes with highly interactive people.

Enigin’s technical bods, creatives, marketing men, web developers, Pas, and Directors, plus they are always interrupting me — generally for valid work reasons but sometimes just to chat.

For whatever reason they are welcome but they’re distracting, and their needs are often a far lower priority than what I need to work on at that precise moment.
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Running and Energy Efficient Project

You may wonder, “Where should I start?”

Do I replace one piece of equipment or system at a time? Or, should I do a comprehensive upgrade of my entire facility?

The answer will vary depending on each individual business’ situation. The age of your current equipment and facility systems, your type of business, your local utility rates, your hours of operation, and your access to capital are all key factors in what level of upgrade makes business sense.

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This is the Time to Act - Enigin Energy Saving Tips

IN the northern hemisphere now is the time to act to save energy in the winter.

We tend to consider how much our air-con will be working as the days get warmer, and this should not be forgotten but hopefully we acted awhile ago to either replace an old inefficient unit or have an intelligent air-con controller fitter, before actually needed it so that when we switch the unit on it is not swallowing loads of money.

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Energy Saving Tips

An office and home energy audit is the first step to understanding how much energy is consumed.

Proper energy management will keep all systems running efficiently. An energy audit of electrical heating and cooling includes checking insulation, draft stopping, windows and doors, as well as the overall envelope of the home.

This assessment will determine the efficiency of the heating and cooling system and how to conserve energy. Corrections in the systems will save homeowners time and money.

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Some More Energy Saving Tips from Enigin

The cost of electricity and power is increasing steadily and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
What can you do to combat these price rises, which is evermore vital in the current financial climate?

Of course if you are in business or responsible for an organisation spending thousands on your utility bill, your best bet would be to contact us at Enigin and we can help you to save money and energy.

But how about when we are at home, we too face rising costs. Like we have all being doing in the past 18 months or so we have reduced our cost of living.

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How to conduct an energy audit

If you’re serious about lowering your carbon footprint by reducing the energy you use at home or at work (as well as saving money), then the best thing you can do it conduct what’s known as an energy audit.

What an Energy Audit Does
An energy audit examines the electricity used by appliances, as well as letting you calculate the amount of insulation you have to let you understand how much of the heat in the building might be escaping thanks to poor insulation.

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Energy Saving Advice II

Initial Action

Discover how much carbon you are emitting on a yearly basis. You can do this by visiting the many different websites, if you do a search you will find the resources online that you need - try this link: Energy Saving Trust carbon calculator.

Once you have calculated the annual output then begin to start cutting back.

The average western European household emits over 6 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.

There are simple steps to take to reduce your carbon footprint, and you will also save money.

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Energy Saving Advice I

It is important for everyone to start becoming more energy efficient and there are hundreds of simple actions we can all take to reduce or energy use to save money and the environment.

At Enigin we like to share energy saving advice for free.

It is vital to understand why we have to take action. So here is an overview about energy saving and why it has become so important worldwide.

A few basics before we look at the practicalities.

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Start Becoming Energy Efficient

At Enigin we work along with commerce, industry and the public sector to help them save money through saving energy, but it is important for everyone to start becoming more energy efficient and there are hundreds of simple actions we can all take to reduce or energy use to save money and the environment.

It is vital to understand why we have to take action. So here is an overview about energy saving and why it has become so important worldwide.

What are these Carbon Emissions you read about?

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a gas emitted into the atmosphere from many sources but the area that causes concern is the CO2 emitted as a result of burning fossil fuels.

Through photosynthesis plants and organic matter removes the CO2 from the atmosphere and the carbon helps to make sugars, which may either be consumed in respiration or used as the raw material to produce other organic compounds needed for plant growth and development, the Oxygen part of the CO2 is returned to the atmosphere. When the plants are burnt, either as plants or as fossil fuels, the CO2 is released back into the atmosphere.

Particularly since the onset of the industrial revolution there has been an ever growing imbalance between the CO2 the plants and organic matter of the earth can deal with and the amount still within the atmosphere. But, because industry and our lifestyle now depend on fossil fuels the balance has tipped causing an excessive amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Enigin Connect To The World

Here at Enigin we realise how important networking is - nothing revolutionary in that thought.

Businesses have realised that networking is vital since the first trade or barter. If you wish to grow your business you need to connect with people who need and want your services.

The problem is often people do not know they need your business as they do not know you exist - hence they do not know they want it!

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” is plainly untrue - they need to know where that door is and they need to know you have invented a better mousetrap, hence the need for marketing and networking.

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