News & Insight
Students should perfect these cost-cutting habits. But, for automation of energy saving, the solution is Prefect.
The energy crisis is affecting everyone here in the UK, and although the magnitude of the rapidly rising costs is out of our control, there are ways to marginally reduce our personal liability. Multiply this by a communal factor such as the UKs student population and...
Experience Prefect Controls in person this Autumn
We will be attending 3 exhibitions during the 2022 exhibition season. SEPTEMBER The first is the Association of University Engineers (AUE) Annual Exhibition and Conference. This year it will be held at The University of Stirling in Scotland, from 7 – 9...
New heat loss calculator from Prefect
We have been providing a traditional heat loss calculation service for many years to accurately determine heating output required for projects we are involved with. The calculations, prepared by professional surveyors, combine the thermal transmittance co-efficient or...
Can a label make energy green?
At the start of this year an argument was brewing across Europe with the European Commission proposing to label some gas and nuclear power as ‘green’. With a majority vote in favour, this could become law by 2023. This came just months after the COP26 Climate Summit...
Control saves hard cash
A new report by Cornwall Insight, one of the top management consultancies in the energy, utilities, and environmental sector, says that energy buyers have many more years of rocketing fuel prices to come. Stating that prices will remain above £100/MWh annually, which...
Ink helps to blot out Malaria
Following a stock take and tidy up here at Prefect Controls HQ and as part of our ongoing commitment to green initiatives, we have donated some unused printer cartridges to a great organisation, Cartridges4Charity. Since 2003 Cartridges4Charity has been helping...
Now is the time to cut unnecessary use of energy
I received an email the other day from a director of a newly opened student accommodation facility. The tone of the email was almost incredulous. Having installed electric panel heaters in around 200 rooms he was finding that the occupants were adjusting the room...
25 years studying degrees C
While Harry Potter left platform 93/4 from King’s Cross to begin a new chapter at Hogwarts, freshers arriving for their first year at university would also be settling in. Enjoying a £1.82 pint of lager, listening on their discman to Elton John’s number 1 Candle in...
We bid a fond farewell!
After almost 10 years of dedicated service, we are bidding a fond farewell to our National Sales Manager – Andy Lee. Andy’s career started in 1977 when he joined John Laing, in procurement, purchasing materials for the construction company. This was followed by a move...
HobSensus – Electrical Industry Awards 2021 Finalist
We are very pleased to announce that HobSensus was shortlisted as a finalist in this years Electrical Industry Awards in both the Commercial Product Of The Year and Residential Product Of The Year categories. Organised by Electrical Times magazine and hosted by...
Energy Report – Energy Management systems – student accommodation
The Student accommodation sector Since the turn of the century the student accommodation sector has been revolutionised! Until around the time of the millennium, students had the choice of university-run halls of residence or converted homes for multiple occupation...
New kit for accurate water tank temperature monitoring
Monitoring the temperature of water within a hot water cylinder provides essential data for managing energy use to save costs. Often this simple information is not recorded accurately. Usually, a thermostat is strapped around the centre of the tank which triggers the...
