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HVCA president Gareth Vaughan has warned m&e contractors that installers from other disciplines are moving in on the green services market.

The building services engineering sector was well placed to be at the forefront of a green revolution 鈥� but there were others players, from other disciplines, who were already developing the skills required to install 鈥済reen鈥� products.

鈥淭hey will not be slow to pick up the ball and run with it, should we let it slip from our grasp,鈥� said Vaughan.

Drawing on his experiences at the annual convention of the Mechanical Contractors鈥� Association of America (MCAA), which took place in Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier this year, he said that 鈥渙ur American cousins have heard the sustainability clarion call loud and clear 鈥� and are responding in a manner, and at a speed, that has made the USA the great and powerful nation it is today鈥�.

鈥淚t is my belief that the 鈥榞reen fever鈥� that has our US colleagues in its grip is one that is very well worth catching 鈥� and that the greater our engagement with sustainability, the better it will be for the nation, the planet, our industry and our businesses.鈥�

The quest for sustainability across the built environment was not a passing fancy, he said, but was here to stay 鈥� so that, sooner or later, low and zero-carbon buildings would become the norm.

Technologies that depended, in whole or in part, on renewable energy sources were being developed and marketed, and many such products already existed.