SPP has extended the contract for maintenance and operation of its facilities and equipment with ENGIE Services for a further 3 years. ENGIE, which has been providing technical property management services for SPP since 2008, has thus seamlessly built on several years of successful cooperation between the two companies.
ENGIE Services, as one of the partner member companies of the Slovak Green Building Council (SKGBC), took part in the award ceremony of the Sustainability Ambassadors 2018/2019 competition at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava on 28 May 2019. The awards were presented to the representatives of the winning student teams at the Green Business Club event, in the presence of the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Ing. Michal Brašeň, ArtD. and other guests from the academic environment and the business sphere.
ENGIE Services was also a partner of the professional conferences Facility Management Days 2019 and EnergyCamp 2019 in May and June this year. ENGIE was actively involved in the programme of both conferences by participating in similar lectures on the topics of digitalization in the energy sector, the advantages of using energy management and optimization of heat production and distribution in the thermal management.
At the end of last year, ENERGY Distribution, a member of the ENGIE Group in Slovakia, purchased the assets and technologies of the local distribution system (LDS) at the Nová Hodvábka site in Senica with the aim of developing its energy distribution activities in Slovakia. This year, it is planning its extensive modernisation, which will result in the construction of an unmanned transformer station and more efficient operation.
Last year ENGIE became part of the pilot programme for youth training “SUSTAINABILITY AMBASSADORS”, organised by the Slovak Green Building Council (SKGBC). The two-year project, which involved more than 120 students from 4 schools in Bratislava, was launched by the organiser at the beginning of the 2018/2019 school year. The aim of the programme is to work systematically with secondary school students and prepare them for their future careers through theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the field of sustainable development.
In the metropolis of eastern Slovakia, AZOR, as the new owner of the building, has been reconstructing the multifunctional centre on Hlavná Street since June this year. ENGIE Services succeeded in the tender procedure and plans to start the reconstruction of the technological equipment for the production and distribution of heat, cold and electricity supply in the near future.
The ENGIE Group supported 3 schools in western and eastern Slovakia again this year as part of the ENGIE ECO Schools project. The project also included planting of greenery, which was carried out in September and October by employees of ENGIE Group companies together with pupils from primary schools in Moldava nad Bodvou and Skalica and students from the Secondary Vocational School of Crafts and Technologies in Bratislava.
Design, supply and installation of HVAC and heating systems, minor construction works and other activities – all this was carried out by ENGIE Services’ Technology Installation Department as part of the complex reconstruction of the Danube Hotel in 2017.
On 27 June 2018, ENGIE Services inaugurated a newly built 110/22 kV transformer station, which will distribute electricity to companies located in the Logistics and Industrial Park in Velika Ida from July.
More than 130 innovation-focused events in more than 25 countries around the world – this is the balance sheet of the international ENGIE Innovation Week 2018 (22.5 – 1.6.2018), which the Group organises annually. The main themes for this year were energy efficiency, renewable energy, mobility and Smart cities. The events took a variety of forms from innovation seminars, conferences, workshops, interactive lectures to road shows and international exhibitions.