James Brittain, Director
telephone: 01803 867079
| email: enquiries@thediscoverymill.co.uk | website: www.thediscoverymill.co.uk
The Discovery Mill specialises in energy & sustainability management through people solutions, with many years’ experience across many industry sectors.
We work in partnership with our clients which often involves a combination of strategic, technical & behavioural joined-up thinking, with hands-on or more passive support as required.
• Energy Strategy & Energy Reviews are about taking the time to understand where you are and help establish your local strategy and catalyst for action.
• Training & workshops provide the skills, capability and mind-sets for champions and significant energy users to drive continual improvement. Training is accredited through ESTA.
• Apps & Toolkits provide passive support and quick management systems to make the process as easy as possible for everyday champions to deliver at scale.
• Hands on support provides specialist / technical skills, as required, for example for energy audits, behaviour change campaigns, project support, ISO 50001 energy management systems, where ever we can add value and support for our partners.
The Discovery Mill Limited, Yarner
Dartington, TOTNES TQ9 6JH |
Our Training Courses
- Energy & Sustainability Everyday Champions Course
- On the job training to create everyday champions and develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and performance that energy and sustainability champions and significant energy users need to deliver effective continual improvement and leadership.
Latest News
- Tools and techniques to deliver behaviour change, CPD article published in Energy in Buildings & Industry
- Tools and techniques to deliver behaviour change | 9th January 2019
- Selling energy savings
- James Brittain explains how a mix of technology and behaviour change led to greater energy efficiency at the retail outlets of Heathrow's Terminal 2 | 1st October 2017
- Taking up the challenge to deliver energy benefits
- Using psychology and behaviour change science to cause a fall in energy consumption is no easy task but, if done correctly, it can deliver significant results. | 1st June 2017
- Behaviour change for low-cost energy savings
- More organisations are appreciating that behaviour change can be one of the quickest and lowest-cost ways of delivering energy savings and environmental performance improvement at scale. | 1st June 2016
- The new age of energy leadership
- We know people don’t often like change. What we have discovered is that this depends on whether change is being done to people or whether they are leading up change themselves. | 1st December 2015
- How to make workplace lighting more effective
- There are two key questions that organisations have to ask about their lighting. The first is: Do you know how good your existing lighting performance is? And the second is: How much more potential do you have to improve it? | 1st August 2015
Latest Case Studies
- Think of energy as a service, CPD article as published in the Energy in Buildings and Industry Magazine, June 2019
- Think of energy as a service, CPD article as published in the Energy in Buildings and Industry Magazine, June 2019 | 24th October 2019
- Doing it for themselves, ISO 50001 case-study, published in Energy in Buildings & Industry
- From first workshop to certification in record time. A Netherlands-based material handling specialist is using ISO 50001 to meet increased customer expectations. | 30th September 2019
- Tools and techniques to deliver behaviour change, CPD article published in Energy in Buildings & Industry
- Tools and techniques to deliver behaviour change | 9th January 2019
- ISO 50001 energy management through people
- Congratulations to VANDERLANDE which has gained certification to the ISO 50001 standard for energy management following a four day audit in December 2017. | 5th April 2018
- Lessons from 10 years’ working with Heathrow, 2007-2016
- People solutions are often the quickest and most cost effective way to deliver energy savings and sustainability at scale | 6th January 2018
- ESOS & Energy audits through people
- ESOS is UK legislation that requires all large enterprises to audit their energy performance and identify energy opportunities every four years – this applies to all businesses and not-for-profit organisations with 250+ employees (or) €50m+ turnover and a €43m+ balance sheet. | 1st January 2018
- Energising behaviour change through people
- By spending 20 minutes ‘everyday’ anyone can champion energy and sustainability, make a difference and discovery the benefits for themselves. | 1st January 2018
- Behaviour change for low-cost energy savings
- More organisations are appreciating that behaviour change can be one of the quickest and lowest-cost ways of delivering energy savings and environmental performance improvement at scale. | 1st June 2016
Products and Services
- Accredited Services
- ESOS Assessor
- ISO50001 Implementation and Auditing
- aM&T Automatic Monitoring And Targeting
- aMT online services
- Monitoring and Targeting
- Energy Advice And Consultancy
- Building energy use
- Data Analysis and reports
- Emission assessment/verification services
- Energy audits and reports
- Energy policy and strategy
- Energy use in transport
- Information service provider
- Process and complex systems
- Project procurement and management
- Training and awareness
- Water and waste water advice
- Energy Services
- Energy management services
- InfraRed Thermography
- System design and installation
- Meters
- Electricity meters/sub-meters
- Portable meters
Sector Experience
- Aerospace and Defence
- Airports
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Construction
- Data Centres
- Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
- Factories; industrial buildings (not elsewhere specified)
- Financial & Insurance activities
- Government estate / Local Authority
- Health care
- Hotels / catering / hospitality
- Housing; multi-residential buildings
- Information & communication
- Offices
- Ports and railway terminals
- Professional, scientific & technical services
- Rail
- Recreation; sport; leisure
- Retail premises / shopping centres
- Schools
- Telecommunications
- Transportation; storage; fleet management
- Universities, Colleges and higher education
- Warehouses
- Wholesale & retail trade
Technology Experience
- Absorption refrigeration
- Board level presentation of findings
- Boiler house / plant room
- Boilers
- Building energy management systems
- Building fabric
- Carbon management
- Change management
- CHP
- Comfort cooling
- Compressed air
- Conceptual design
- Controls
- Emissions trading
- Energy from waste
- Energy management – Data collection & analysis
- Energy management – Management strategy
- Energy management – Workforce engagement
- Energy metering
- Energy procurement
- Energy service contracts
- Environmental management systems
- Financial appraisal
- Glazing systems
- Heat recovery – low temperature
- HVAC systems & plant
- Industrial maintenance
- Instrumentation
- Insulation
- IT and computing
- Lighting
- LTHW
- Materials handling
- Motors and drives
- MTHW
- Office equipment
- Process integration
- Pumps and fans
- Quality systems
- Refrigeration and chilling
- Renewable energy - Wind
- Renewable energy – Biomass
- Renewable energy – Hydro
- Renewable energy – PV
- Renewable energy – Solar Thermal
- Shading
- Space planning
- Steam distribution systems
- Thermal mass
- Training
- Waste minimisation
- Water conservation
Specialist Groups
- Independent Energy Consultants group (IECg)
Member Since: 2012 | Membership Number: 1220