From the founders of multi-award winning, low carbon energy engineering business Synergie Environ, Fraser Energy Projects aims to linkcircular economy projects with funding to help realise the ambitions of the project originators.Utilising his many contacts and extensive knowledge of complex engineering projects developed over the past 35 years, Uisdean Fraser will work with multi-million pound funds and connect them to developers to get their project to a stage which is ready for funding and delivery.The company can help with technical assurance, due diligence, contracts and project development to help you realise your ambitions. It can can also help with your project carbon assessment which is becoming of key importance in order to attract project funding.If you have an interesting project in the low carbon/circular economy space come and talk to us about your funding and project development requirements.

Uisdean is Managing Director at Synergie Environ who, since their establishment in 2009, have rapidly gained a reputation for high quality specialist advice to clients, underpinned by the development of engineering solutions to clients’ issues.As an engineering consultancy we work in a variety of sectors including large scale de-centralised district heating, anaerobic digestion development and industrial energy efficiency. All of this work is underpinned by the development of energy, waste and other strategies to help drive the clients’ business forward in the most efficient and cost effective way.With an enviable and growing list of clients in the public and private sectors, Synergie Environ are proud of its high level of repeat business, demonstrating year on year client satisfaction which has resulted in rapid business growth in recent years.The main areas of business are:• Anaerobic digestion projects across multiple feedstocks/sectors with different end uses for the gas including CHP, upgrade and injection to gas grid and direct fire;• Large scale district heating projects with multiple low carbon heat sources. We have the in-house design capability to the latest CIBSE standard and have experience in the incorporation of district cooling as well as private wire distribution for on-site generated electricity;• Industrial energy efficiency and heat recovery across a very broad range of sectors including oil & gas, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, construction, energy production, textiles and food & drink productions;• Energy and waste strategies including development of site wide energy and waste plans, waste reduction/re-use, packaging review, ESOS assessments;• Project Support services include: Project technical and commercial due diligence Project development Planning and permitting of renewable and waste management facilities Process technology review Contract development and management (IChemE, NEC3, JCT, FIDIC) Project management

Synergie provide integrated design, management and procurement services for built infrastructure projects through two main divisions – Projects and Environ. The Projects Division provides services in project, cost and design management, encompassing architectural, engineering, renewable energy developments, waste management and facilities operation. The scope includes new build projects, historic building refurbishments and infrastructure enabling works. The Environ Division provides an holistic approach to resource efficiency and sustainability, incorporating waste, water and energy management, utilities auditing and procurement, automated utility metering and data analysis, sustainable energy management, renewable energy developments (primarily in wind, wave, tidal and solar) and building assessment through Energy Performance Certification

Latterly Head of Waste at the local authority. Through this and previous employment at the Council secured funding for and develeloped an Anaerobic Digestion plant to process organic waste for the Western Isles of Scotland. Also developed a range of new recycling processing systems with a focus on developing products with a local market.

Development of long term waste disposal and recycling solutions within the Western Isles to enable the Council to meet its obligations under the EC Landfill Directive. The main areas of responsibility were:Waste Strategy Responsible for producing the Council's Waste Strategy Implementation Plan to meet the Area Waste Plan. Completed successful funding bid requiring 18 months of negotiation to the Scottish Executive for the funding to implement the Council's waste strategy (£25.4M) and subsequently given responsibility for its implementation. Given the role of leading on the implementation of the project and taking it from concept to contract start by March 2005 including responsibility for all contract documentation. Appointed as project manager for the £10M project to construct the two new waste plants required as part of the delivery of the plan. Waste DisposalResponsibility for existing waste management facilities such as landfill sites and the consequent infrastructure development, PPP licence applications (with consultants) etc. As a consequence was required to develop close links with SEPA as the regulatory body.RecyclingResponsible for the construction of the first recyclate processing facility in the island at a cost of £180K (receiving part funding from Europe). Innovations included processing of glass to a product for use in decorative applications, processing paper to animal bedding and the design and purchase of a mobile car baler (£110K also part European funded) which gives a permanently island based solution to the problem of derelict vehicles.Community EnvironmentalResponsible for the planning, development, implementation and operation of an environmental improvement grant scheme to enable communities to undertake environmental improvement works in their area.

Responsibility for all the departments cleansing functions with an annual value of approximately £1.5M.The duties included the contract management for the departments' CCT contracts (including contract preparation etc.), management of the Council's waste disposal facilities and staff, budgetary preparation, preparation of the sectional business plan and all aspects of service development including reports to the Council. Client Representative for all aspects of the development of the extension to the landfill site serving the Southern Isles (£750K) and the extension for the site serving the Northern Isles (£950K

Client representative for the contracts of refuse collection, street sweeping and public conveniences with a combined annual value of approximately £750K with responsibility for all the day to day running of the contracts, budgetary preparation and management and revision of the contract documentation.Preparation of all contract documentation (with the legal department), preparation of tenderer lists, evaluation of tenders/award of contract and the preparation of all reports to the Council to enable decisions to be made at each stage of the process.