INDUSTRY EXPERT
Andrew Rennie, Business Development Manager at Kingspan.
KINGSPAN’S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER ANDREW RENNIE ON THE RISE OF RETROFIT... The road to zero
the insulation business for nearly three decades. Educated at Royal School Armagh (he lives outside the cathedral city with his wife and two children), Andrew Rennie continued his studies in England before returning home. “I began working in the insulation business in 1993, selling Expanded Polystyrene Insulation to Builders and Builders Merchants in Northern Ireland. The market at this stage was strong. Standard products were 60mm EPS board for the walls and 50mm EPS board for the floors, and with everyone using the same type of insulation, the only question was what price it was!” Appointed Sales Manager for Northern Ireland in 2000,
I t might sound like a contradiction in terms, but do we need a new approach to retrofit in Northern Ireland? Could our drive towards energy efficiency be, well, more efficient? The governments in London and Dublin have both committed to a target of zero carbon by 2050, with retrofitting a crucial component of their respective strategies. The methodology
for achieving that common goal, however, is very different. Northern Ireland is, in many respects, still playing catch-up with the Republic of Ireland’s retrofitting a more established, developed, and joined-up scheme. To assess both approaches to bringing new technology to old systems, NI Builder sought the opinion of an expert in the field, a man who has worked in
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