The work was completed during term time, outside of core hours, with no disruption to learning and within the agreed budget.

School Business Manager, Debbie Buss, commented: “The work was carried out in a considerate manner given that it took place during term time.  We were very happy with the engineers; they worked around us, planned access with us and there was no disruption at any time.”

LED lighting upgrades are a key priority to help schools reduce the amount of energy they are using, reducing both costs and carbon emissions. The trust is utilising the information collected from the energy audits it has commissioned, together with the thermography reports previously undertaken, to identify the key priorities for each individual school, and work together to see measures installed that will help us to reach our goal of being Carbon Neutral by 2035 and achieve significant savings to budgets.  

St Andrews, after reviewing all their energy audit data, are making improvements to their boiler controls, hot water heating and have scheduled their LED lighting upgrades. Some of these measures have paybacks of less than three years, demonstrating the value in prioritising these over other improvement recommendations.