Construction 21 met Martin McKay, who, as the Executive Director of the Regeneration of Clyde Gateway in Scotland, leads Clyde Gateway's Green Regeneration Innovation District including the District Heating and Cooling networks as it drives to Net Zero. He tells us more about the application of the 2nd Interreg NWE capitalisation on Glasgow pilot site from the D2Grids project.
C21: Can you tell us more about why Glasgow and Magenta Business Park applied to the D2Grids project?
Martin McKay: Glasgow and Clyde Gateway, as a green regeneration and innovation district, are advocates of district heating systems. We feel that, for modern commercial development, having systems that can offer district heating and cooling in the way 5GDHC (5th generation district heat and cold) can do, would be very advantageous to that development.
We also wanted to be able to provide low-carbon energy but at the same time also have technologies that we feel will be attractive to customers and to potential occupants of the buildings.
