Polypipe
Building Services announces that Simon Russell has joined as UK Regional
Director, supporting customers across central and southern areas of the
country.
He
brings with him a wealth of established contacts among MEP
consultants thanks to a building services career of over 35 years and will
focus on offering an enhanced level of support in the design of drainage and
water supply systems for commercial projects.
Simon
observed: “I will be working closely with designers, contractors, and clients
to ensure our product knowledge and expertise is fully available at every step
of their commercial projects. From concept to construction to handover, as a
manufacturer we are ideally placed to provide detailed advice on important
topics such as the environmental footprint of systems as well as how selecting
the right product can help to enhance performance and durability.”
Key
to this will be a series of training days and roadshows to be held in the new
year. Aimed at engineers, these sessions will provide an opportunity to discuss
the important role of plastic drainage and water supply systems in modern
building design. Polypipe Building Services will also highlight what it is
doing to ensure engineers are able to easily get all relevant performance data
to make the right specification, including on the increasingly important topic
of embodied carbon.
Simon
observed: “A big reason I was excited to join the team was that they clearly
take the challenges that our industry is facing very seriously, and how we can
work to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment.
“Measuring
embodied carbon is something that has quite rightly become of critical
importance to the design of projects, and manufacturers need to make sure they
have all the required information easily available. We have been working hard
on this, for example in the production of EPDs across our product range as well
as investing in the likes of in-house prefabrication and recycling facilities
to further support a more sustainable industry.
“I’m
looking forward to getting out and about to provide building services engineers
and contractors with more information on how we can help, as well as enhancing
our presence with industry bodies such as CIBSE and the Society of Public
Health Engineers.”
Tom
Murray, UK Sales and Marketing Director of Polypipe Building Services
commented: “We’re delighted to welcome Simon to the team. The design of
commercial buildings has become more complex in recent years and now must take
into full consideration a broader range of factors. In turn that means we as
manufacturers have a responsibility to support public health engineers with not
only detailed and accurate product information on the likes of performance and
embodied carbon, but also by evolving our business to make sure how we operate
is as sustainable as possible.
“The
advantage we have at Polypipe Building Services is that our recycling,
prefabrication, and testing is all in house and so we have total control over
it. The fact that we can take waste plastic from site and run it through our
own recycling process and test it for quality means consultants and specifiers
can have complete assurance of quality in our products.
“We
can only continue to offer the right level of support to engineers if we are in
regular dialogue with them and discussing the challenges they face. So, Simon’s
role is extremely important to offering the best possible service – and
ensuring that working with Polypipe Building Services means you can efficiently
and confidently make the best possible specification.”
