Our Vision
To be known for thought leadership and creating brilliant environments |
Our Mission
We provide clever solutions that incorporate our expertise, our experience and a good dose of common sense to maximise value and sustainability |
Our Purpose
We do this to have happy clients and a happy earth. ‘Using the least to achieve the most’ |
Nick Meeten
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Nick is a director of Applied Energy working in the areas of Buildings/Water/Sustainability.
Nick is a Chartered Member of Engineering New Zealand. His career has seen him working in New Zealand, UK, Spain, Holland, Italy and Germany. Nick is a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in the following:
Nick’s specialty, an area in which he has built an international reputation, is using the thermal energy capacity of wastewater to make cities and industries sustainable and energy efficient. “In an era of changing climates, cities all over the world are increasingly struggling to cope with urban growth and associated growth in heating and cooling energy demands from buildings and industries. At the same time they are under pressure to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption. Wastewater flows are a huge energy resource which is largely ignored, yet has been proven to allow buildings to transition away from using fossil fuels for heating and allows refrigerant based heating and cooling systems to operate up to twice as efficiently as conventional air source systems. Using this thermal resource, and the below ground infrastructure which is already there, makes really good economic and environmental sense.” |
Mike Bourke
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After 40+ years working in the 3-Waters Department for Christchurch City Council (CCC), Mike stopped working there in April 2022 and is (theoretically) now in semi-retirement. Applied Energy have been very fortunate to coax Mike into joining our team and this is now what he says “I am however looking forward to opportunities to share my knowledge and experience with other organisations who wish to take advantage of that experience, to improve their long term outcomes particularly in the energy and carbon footprint impacts from water operations. Our water resource will be an increasingly vital part of our future on our planet and we must take every practical step to improve our guardianship of this precious resource to protect public health and the environment for future generations.”
Mike’s experience and knowledge are massive and difficult to describe briefly. Below are a few of the major accomplishments of Mike’s career:
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Rob Besaans
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Rob is the managing director of Geoinsight
Rob and his team are our genius mapping partners. They produce the hard copy maps for our reports and easy to use web-maps for the whole world to enjoy! Their expertise is amazing! |
Ina Meeten
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Ina is a director of Applied Energy working in the areas of GIS/Mapping & Marketing.
She completed her degree in cartography in Berlin and then commenced her career in Switzerland with Endoxon (which was subsequently acquired by Google as part of creating Google Maps). Her career has since seen her working in GIS/mapping roles, graphic design and raising three children (a complex project management role!) She contributes her mapping wisdom to Applied Energy in the styling and layouts of mapping projects & graphic design and delivery of marketing materials. |
At Applied Energy, we do not try to do everything by ourselves. We prefer to focus on what we are passionate about, because then we are focused. We believe we offer specialist expertise which is rare, and when a project requires expertise that we do not have, we team up with others who we know, we trust and they are experts in their fields to fill these gaps. As examples, we have strong working relationships with Nxity in Asia and Heatnet Global in Europe who are both experts in district heating systems. We have a strong team relationship with GeoInsight in New Zealand who are GIS and mapping experts specializing in the local government sector. We are also very proud to be the only Southern Hemisphere company selected to be an Ambassador for the European projects:Working with these people is fun and inspiring! |