Cynergin’s project at National Museum’s Liverpool has won the Innovation Award at this year’s prestigious Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) Awards.

The CHPA’s Gala Dinner and awards ceremony, held at the Banqueting House in Whitehall on the 25^th November, showcases the latest achievements within the field of combined heat and power technology over the last 12 months.

The ceremony, which was attended by several key MPs and representatives of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, rewards those projects or ventures that have demonstrated a significant technological, commercial or financial advance.  The award was presented by Lord Whitty, President of the CHPA, to Hill Dickinson for the legal services they provided to National Museums Liverpool (NML) in relation to the recently-completed project to provide energy facilities for the Museum of Liverpool.

Working with Hill Dickinson as legal advisors, Cynergin advised NML on the outsourcing of the design, installation and operation of new energy facilities for the Museum of Liverpool.  Following a competitive tender process, Ener-G Combined Power Ltd. (Ener-G) was ultimately selected as NML’s preferred partner for the project.  The Museum of Liverpool has been designed to replace the former Museum of Liverpool Life and the award recognises the innovative approach to this complex energy facilities project.

The services Cynergin provided for this project included management of an OJEU compliant procurement process and agreement of the technical schedules between NML and Ener-G, which set out Ener-G’s commitment to design and install its proposed energy solution for the Museum by early 2010.  The contract also outlines Energ-G’s obligation to operate and maintain the installation for a term of 17 years.  Cynergin also negotiated for NML a guarantee by the contractor that £500,000 worth of energy and operational costs will be saved annually, against the energy expenditure which NML had projected it would have spent at the Museum, had it not outsourced its requirements to an external contractor.

Tony Allen, Executive Director of Finance at National Museums Liverpool, concluded: “The savings that this energy facilities project guarantees will allow funds, which would have gone towards powering, heating and cooling the Museum of Liverpool, to be put towards showcasing NML’s outstanding collections in the best possible way.  That the innovation this project demonstrates has been recognised is a tremendous achievement for the Museum, Hill Dickinson and all the other parties involved.”