Polypipe Building Services has appointed Simon Russell as UK Regional Director, supporting customers across central and southern areas of the country.

He brings with him a wealth of established contacts among MEP consultants thanks to a building services career of over 35 years and will focus on offering an enhanced level of support in the design of drainage and water supply systems for commercial projects.

Simon said: "I will be working closely with designers, contractors, and clients to ensure our product knowledge and expertise is fully available at every step of their commercial projects. From concept to construction to handover, as a manufacturer we are ideally placed to provide detailed advice on important topics such as the environmental footprint of systems as well as how selecting the right product can help to enhance performance and durability."


Key to this will be a series of training days and roadshows to be held in the new year. Aimed at engineers, these sessions will provide an opportunity to discuss the important role of plastic drainage and water supply systems in modern building design. Polypipe Building Services will also highlight what it is doing to ensure engineers are able to easily get all relevant performance data to make the right specification, including on the increasingly important topic of embodied carbon.

Simon continued: "A big reason I was excited to join the team was that they clearly take the challenges that our industry is facing very seriously, and how we can work to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment.

"Measuring embodied carbon is something that has quite rightly become of critical importance to the design of projects, and manufacturers need to make sure they have all the required information easily available. We have been working hard on this, for example in the production of EPDs across our product range as well as investing in the likes of in-house prefabrication and recycling facilities to further support a more sustainable industry.

"I'm looking forward to getting out and about to provide building services engineers and contractors with more information on how we can help, as well as enhancing our presence with industry bodies such as CIBSE and the Society of Public Health Engineers."