Inverurie Sports Centre's environmental efforts to feature at COP26
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The Garioch Sports Centre's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and to become the first carbon neutral sport centre is to feature as part of a presentation to be made at COP26 which starts this week in Glasgow.
The centre's Kevin Bonarius said: "This exciting opportunity, along with national recognition comes off the back of our two successful Climate Challenge Fund projects in partnership with Keep Scotland Beautiful.
"The team of Audra Booth and Alan Still who are our Green Champions delivered over £300k of capital funding to improve the facilities at Garioch Sports Centre.
"Throughout the projects we engaged with our user groups, schools, and local businesses helping to educate all on how to reduce the carbon footprint within the Garioch community.
"The Climate Challenge Fund project enabled us to fully upgrade the facility to LED lighting, including our outdoor 3G Football Pitch, install a new inner foyer door to improve our heat retention, add heat reflectors behind all our radiators and draft excluders on all fire exit doors.
"We also delivered educational workshops on fuel efficient driving and demonstrated the basics of changes that can be made in the home to lower utility bills.
"We then accessed a separate fund to fully install an electric charge point in the top car park."
The centre is now working on a project to fill the building's flat roof with solar panels to power the centres activity and have entered into a new partnership with Motive UK, which has seen a renewable container with Solar panels and wind turbine installed on site.
Plans are also underway to add an additional car charging installed point for users of electric vehicles.
