Upper Forth Boat Club
Going Green
The club has been making small changes over the last few years to reduce our carbon footprint.
Every year we have highlighted and implemented various projects, some small, some large to make the club greener.
Our club house is little piece of history, being the officers smoking quarters of the Ben Cleuch, which was brought to Bo’ness for scrapping. Unfortunately the down side is the material that it is made from – Steel, making it difficult to heat. This made picking the next project an easy one, insulation of the roof. We also replaced the lighting in the main club room to low energy bulbs.
A project is on the cards for further down the road when funds allow. The insulation of the walls in the main club room and also the instillation of low energy lighting in the hallway, ladies and gents.
Our first project was the introduction of two bins for recycling; one for aluminium cans and the other was for glass. Although this was a small step, it was a step in the right direction.
One of our members recycles the cans, donating the money raised to Falkirk Hospital.
Water consumption was the next plan, we have a small membership and the urinal set up with a large head of water that automatically flushed every 20 minutes was a large waste of water. We installed a press to flush system. This reduced the entire water usage of the club by almost half.
The club house windows have been replaced with double glazed units.
This project was made possible by a grant that was received from
the Green Blue Initiative.
The club security lighting used to be halogen lamps. Our first look at these was a low cost project, to reducing the 500w bulbs to 150 watt. This was finally improved on by removing all but one of the halogen lamps and replacing them with security lights which use 16 watt low energy bulbs and a solar powered light.
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