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SEC Time Capsule being placed. Mick Count, GB Building Solutions Site Manager and Russell Smith University Estate Manager installed a time capsule in the SEC Building yesterday.
Items inside the time capsule include the original 1966 University Planning Document, a current newspaper, an assortment of coins, a copy of Russell's Presentation from the internal launch of the building and the latest copy of News and Views.
Students were consulted about which items would be appropriate for inclusion, fitting in with the objectives of the enterprise centre. Future students at the University of Bradford will be able to learn about everyday life from their peers of today.
Posted 25 May 2012
EMU Logo The collaboration project EMU (Environmental Move for You) between Estates and the School of Health won the behaviour change category at Green Build awards last night. Members of Estates and the School of Health collected the award from BBC TV presenter and Environmental Journalist Lucy Siegle at Manchester's prestigious Museum of Science and Industry . EMU moved the School of Health from off campus accommodation into the BREEAM 'Very Good' rated Building on City Campus whilst delivering unprecedented energy savings.
EMU is informing other projects across the University, notably GLEE the library refurbishment project and Green Inpact Energy, the cross institute energy saving through behaviour change initiative. EMU has also been shortlisted at the (External) Yorkshire Post Awards (external link) in the innovation category The awards ceremony is to be held at the Queens Hotel, Leeds on 10 May 2012.
Posted 10 May 2012
The University of Bradford has achieved the Platinum Standard in the BITC Environment Index.
The Business in the Community (BITC) Environment Index provides a thorough framework for analysing environmental management and performance. (External)
Read more about the Environment Index
(external link).
Achieving platinum standard is a major achievement and puts us up with the highest performing organisations in the region!
On top of this we also are one of this years Climate Change Champions. Our progress towards meeting our 2020 target of a 50% reduction in carbon emissions is well ahead of schedule as investment is starting to pay off.
For more information see our
Environment Site
.
Posted 3 May 2012
The Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) have two articles featuring Estates & Facilities in their latest newsletter, no. 39. The Spring 2012 issue features the recent award of CIBSE Carbon Champion of the Year at the 2012 CIBSE Awards . In addition an article is included related to our new £40 million sustainable student village, The Green , winning the 2012 BREEAM Multi-residentual award. The BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) Awards honour the most sustainable buildings and are made annually to the buildings that achieve the highest scores under the scheme.
Read the full articles on pages 3 and 5 AUDE Newsletter No. 39 (3.7MB, pdf) .
Posted on 2 May 2012
Maintenance Icon Service Level Agreements between the University and Estates and Facilities have been reviewed and are now online for comment. Service Levels have been calculated after considering the severity of the issue, the disruption caused to users and where appropriate it's location. All the Service Level Agreements for the department will be discussed with Schools shortly with a view to ratification by the University.
The cross-section SLA document contains details of the service offered, contact information and the responsibility of both the User and Estates and Facilities, our commitments and whether the task falls inside or outside of our agreed overheads. The website provides a link to the main document and where appropriate, when you should expect a response and completion of typical tasks broken down by type.
posted 30 April 2012
Green Build Finalists 2012
The Greenbuild Expo and Awards are fast approaching and Estates and Facilities are proud to be playing a significant role in this year’s event. (External) On the opening day (external link), 9 May, members of the Estates team will be sit on an expert panel answering questions on BREEAM and sustainable construction.
That evening members of Estates & Facilities will be joined by colleagues from the School of Health Studies at the awards ceremony where the collaborative EMU Project has been shortlisted in the behaviour change category and has also been (External) shortlisted for the 2012 Yorkshire Post Environment Awards (external link). This innovative project will be featured at the Expo itself and on the Greenbuild website. The Greenbuild Expo Sustainable Refurbishment and Building Conference takes place at Manchester Central (formerly the MEN Arena). View the (External) Greenbuild Awards Shortlist (external link).
(External) On Day two (external link) of Greenbuild the ground breaking Sustainable Enterprise Centre takes centre stage and provides one of keynote presentations. This is first public outing for the revolutionary building that achieved the world’s highest BREEAM interim of 94.95%. The SEC Building has many unique feature including a timber structure, recycled aggregate floors and wall made from hemp and delivered using the University industry leading sustainable Construction specification that focuses on building physics rather than renewable. The SEC Building is currently on site and further details and progress can be found on its dedicated webpage .
Read more about the Greenbuild shortlisted EMU Project .
Bradford Community Broadcast Radio (BCB) have recently run a feature on the work carried out by Estates and Facilities on sustainability. The article included interviews with Director, Clive Wilson; Estates Manager, Russell Smith; and Environment Manager, Ben Tongue.
Listen again: /estates/media/EstatesandFacilities/AllFiles/Documents/Eco-Uni.mp3
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Come to eco fair on May 1st at Elland Road, Leeds and hear two the two key members of the University of Bradford's EMU team (one from Estates and the School of Health Studies) speak about the succesful EMU project and the campus wide follow-on project Green Energy Impact Energy. EMU has generated a great deal of interest inside and outside the sector and has assisted and help inform how the University of Bradford build and refurbish buildings whilst saving energy. There are a wide range of other speakers and exhibitors at this bustling event.
eco-fair is the largest environmental event in the North of England focusing on real business issues and best practice case studies. The themes for 2012 are waste, energy, greener buildings and strategy.
Eco Fair is free to attend event, however delegates do need to pre-register, which can be done on the (External) Eco Fair website .
Bioversity Tour
Peter Winn and Robert Ideson this week led their first Biodiversity Campus Tour wonderfully, showing off the campus and the work of the grounds team. The six members of staff taking part learnt all about the planting that's happening around campus providing food for humans and animals.
We've now got a herb garden, orchard, Italian garden, allotment area, Gooseberries and Plum trees, ponds, bats and birds of many kinds on site!
Find out more about how we are Greening the Campus .
Tours are taking place on the last Wednesday of every month through to the Autumn at 12.30pm meeting at Students Central Reception.
Nightwatchman software installed to combat 41% of computers which are left on, stands to save £29,000 in first year.
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The installation of Nightwatchman is a collaboration project between Estates and Learner Support Services to reduce energy waste and decrease carbon emissions from PCs that are not being used.
The University's ambitious Carbon Management Plan and sustainability vision to reduce it's emissions by 50% by 2020. The installtion of this software will help the University save approximately £29,000 in the first year.
NightWatchman helps track when PCs are left on out of normal working hours. The sophisticated software help to see where and when energy wastage is occurring. More than that, it actively and automatically shuts those machines down saving unnecessary energy use. Along with other carbon reduction projects and intiatives we hope this year to report a step change reduction in our carbon emissions.
School of Health Studies BREEAM Certificate
Our School of Health Studies building (Horton A) recieved it's BREEAM certificate today. It is officially rated at Very Good. BREEAM (Building Research Estasblishment
Environmental Assessment Method)
is a measure of a buildings sustainability.
BREEAM ratings are very difficult to achieve in refurbishment projects, therefore to comfortably secure a 'Very Good' rating is no mean achievement, in what was effectively a two thirds refurbishment project. The £9 million (4,000m 2 ) part refurbishment, part new build opened in September 2011 and enabled the relocation the School of Health Studies from a tired off site location to a prime site on the City Campus.
The building has been shortlisted in the RICS Pro-Yorkshire Awards 2012 in the Design and Innovation category and the winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on 4 May 2012.
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EMU Project wins at Greenbuild Awards , added 10/5/2012
Emergency Help Points Plan , added 5/5/2012
Car Parking Policy (Appeals) , updated 2/5/2012
Helpdesk Statistics , updated 1/5/2012
Service Level Agreements , added 30/4/2012
EMU Project , updated 18/4/2012
Greenbuild , added 18/4/2012
BCB Radio , added 17/4/2012
Updated Floor Plans , updated 3/4/2012
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