And the winners are… Bacchus Kft. and DS Consulting!

Bacchus Kft. created a video to show all of the actions that they undertake to reduce the need for heating at their restaurant Nimród vendéglő. Watch the video to see visual examples of how they control the temperature, dry and polish their glasses rather than using the dryer and use winter dress codes to save energy.

Tamas Tüske from Bacchus Kft stumbled upon the START2ACT Winter Challenge on social media. He said:

"I strongly believe we should be committed to saving energy at work. The generation of today has to act up to mitigate the effects of climate change. I remember I was particularly happy when the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2015, however I also realised we can only achieve the goals of the Agreement if we act locally. I do my best to spread the word about climate actions and I’m happy that we can do something about it with my employees"

DS Consulting upgraded their window panes and frames to improve the thermal efficiency in their office. Previously their windows were several decades old and were known to be inefficient, so they calculated that they could make a 36% saving in energy use by upgrading to new units with secondary glazing and sealing.

Daniel from DS Consulting said:

"My office space was surrounded by mostly heated areas and the heat losses through the exterior windows were relatively large. Especially because of the bad thermal properties of old external windows. I want to reduce the heat loss to the smallest possible extent. I'm business oriented to energy efficiency in the industry and I wanted to show in my office the possibilities that exist in reducing energy losses."