Event
NIRAS UK SPARK event - Driving Energy Efficiency & Water Risk in Manufacturing
Join us for our Breakfast Briefing on Driving Energy Efficiency & Water Risk in Manufacturing. Whether you are responsible for plant performance, capital investment, or energy & water initiatives, this event will provide clear guidance on how to turn rising energy costs into a catalyst for innovation, helping your factory become more competitive, efficient, and future-ready.
Address: NIRAS Group (UK), Millennium Court, First Avenue, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2WH. Easy and free parking available.
Date: October 01, 08:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Cost of admission: Free and limited to 2 people per manufacturing business.
Organiser: NIRAS
Join us for a focused SPARK session
With energy costs continuing to rise and becoming increasingly critical, manufacturers are under more pressure than ever to optimise their operations.
Most manufacturing sites have vulnerabilities that haven’t been mapped, whether it’s a supply constraint, a single point of failure, or a system that cannot scale with demand. These risks are often hiding in plain sight.
This session takes a practical engineering view of operational resilience across energy and water, exploring where exposure sits, how decarbonisation connects to resilience, and how to address gaps before they impact production.
Why attend
- Hear insights to managing rising costs to combat volatility in energy prices
- Learn how operational resilience & decarbonisation are connected, not competing priorities.
- Understand where the hidden single points of failure tend to sit on manufacturing sites, and how to find them before they find you.
- Gain practical insight from engineers who deliver solutions.
- Understand why independent advice matters when assessing technology and system options.
What we’ll cover
- How resilient is your site to energy supply disruption — and can your systems cope if production scales?
- Where decarbonisation fits into a resilience strategy, and how to build a business case for both
- Water security and demand constraints, what happens when supply can't meet production growth
- What a structured site services assessment looks like in practice, capacity analysis, resilience mapping, and vulnerability identification across utility systems
- Next steps: what a resilience review covers and how we can learn from case studies
Who should attend?
This event is designed for decision-makers and technical leaders within manufacturing and industrial operations who are responsible for performance, cost, and resilience of site utilities.
- Engineering Directors
- Site Managers
- Utilities Managers
- Capital Project Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Manufacturing Leaders
Whether you’re planning future investment, improving efficiency or reducing operational risk, this event will provide insight to help inform your next steps.
Meet the speakers
Michael Bannerman
Sustainability Consultant
Burton upon Trent, United Kingdom
Mike is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and ESOS Lead Assessor with extensive experience in energy and utility systems across food, beverage, and industrial manufacturing.
He takes a process engineering approach to resilience, working across the full project lifecycle from study through to delivery.
Recent project work includes utility capacity reviews, decarbonisation studies, water capacity and stewardship assessments, effluent treatment capacity upgrades, and site services reviews for new production line installations at major UK manufacturers.
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Megan Bethell
Process Engineer
Ascot, United Kingdom
Megan is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and has experience in feasibility studies, detailed design, and implementation of both energy and water projects in both the UK and New Zealand.
She takes a practical approach to defining current performance and developing practical solutions.
Her recent project work includes energy studies with a focus on improving reliability, cost reduction and resilience, and design of water and wastewater
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Matthew Hidderley
Sales & Marketing Director (UK)
Burton upon Trent, United Kingdom
