The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Andrew Moore
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The global solar sector purchases around 90% of its solar panels from China. In the UK the figure is about the same. Thes panels are mass produced to a high quality and certain manufacturers have worked hard to remove any trace of slave labour from their supply chains and provided better traceability of materials within the products. However, with such a concentration of panels form China, there are strategic risks around control of supply, availability, price and warranties. The question has been asked many times whether we ought to have a UK manufacturer of solar panels in order to countenance these risks.
Andrew Moore is the founder and sales Director for UKSol, a UK based company that manufactures solar panels abroad, but where all the controls, pricing and guarantees are UK based. As a UK company, taxes and regulation are to UK standards, making their panels an attractive alternative to Chinese providers.
Listen to this podcast to hear how brand UK is attractive around the world and the unique selling points that a UK based manufacturer uses to sell effectively into fifty countries worldwide. Andrew talks about the challenges of setting up a UK manufacturing base and the benefits of subcontracting design, innovation and manufacturing to the best organisations around the world to provide panels that he can be proud of.
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