BCB Interview Estates Staff - 28/9/2011

Bradford Community Broadcast Radio (BCB) today interviewed Russell Smith and Lyn Ha about sustainable construction and the Award Shortlisted School of Health Studies EMU Project.

Listen again: BCB, Russell Smith & Lyn Ha Interview (mp3, 8MB)

Estates and Facilities gain CHAS Accreditation

Becoming an accredited member of CHAS (The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) demonstrates the departments compliance with important parts of Health and Safety Law (the core criteria as described in the CDM Regulations).  This is an important step to improving the management of Health and Safety in the department and to maintain our accreditation will become an important part of our ongoing commitment to improving Health and Safety standards.

 To become an accredited member the departments systems were assessed by an independent NEBOSH qualified Health and Safety professional.

 Thanks must be expressed to all members of the department who made this possible.

 

Unlocking Sustainable Behaviour Event

Most carbon reduction programmes have an awareness, behaviour change or organisational culture aspect.  But how much energy and carbon do they really save? 1%, 10%, 30%??  Whether you're looking to get on the road with an engagement programme or looking for fresh ideas to develop sustainability culture that delivers real savings, come and join us in Bradford on Friday 7th October.

 A low-carbon culture event hosted by the University will help you deliver energy and carbon reductions through behaviour change.  You will:

• meet and share ideas with others who face similar challenges
• learn from other organisations who have delivered projects to develop low-carbon cultures
• work in teams to plan a programme to develop a low-carbon culture

Read further for the Agenda and booking details.

 

 

The Green - BREEAM Outstanding!

The Green has been awarded the highest ever BREEAM rating for any building, at 95.05% which is the highest accredited award for sustainable development and operation. The development is the only BREEAM 'Outstanding' student accommodation in the country. The Green is a new £40 million purpose built accommodation in the heart of the city campus. 

Here's how the BBC covered our initial vision for the project in 2007.

Further to the opening of the accommodation the BBC reported again on 'the eco-friendly student village' and interviewed Clive Wilson for a dedicated news report.

 

Sustainability and Enterprise Centre

The Sustainability and Enterprise Centre (SEC) has been designed to the University's target driven sustainability specification, delivering the world's highest ever pre-construction BREEAM (external link) rating of 94.95% at award. The building seeks to be the focal point in embedding sustainable living and learning within all University activities in unison with the Ecoversity vision. The building will showcase sustainable development and construction at it's best and expand the University's relationship with the wider community.

The SEC will be used for research and knowledge transfer activities and as an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) 'learner' centre.  It will provide facilities for ESD events (which work mainly with primary school children) and learning opportunities through the building's function and the sustainable construction that are integral to the design.

Further details can be found on the Sustainability and Enterprise Centre website.

 

EMU Project - Shortlisted for the prestigious Energy Awards

EMU (Environmental Move for U) has been shortlisted for the country's premier energy and carbon related awards. The awards are sponsored and judged by some of  biggest names and companies in the industries. EMU was an innovative, effective and replicable collaboration project between Estates and the School of Health (SOH) . The target was to maximise engagement in carbon management; promote collegiality and engender well-being and to prepare and move 150 staff and 3,000 students from an 'off campus' building to a new 'GREEN' building on City Campus. To succeed where many others have failed (including ourselves) we recognised a need for an engagement project within the old building which would provide the foundation for success in the new building. This represented a challenge, a large physical area to influence and encourage sustainable behaviour from staff entering programme review. However, the project resulted in achieving unprecedented savings of 33% in the metered areas.

Further Details: EMU Project.

 

 

Environment News - 17 August 2011

Energy Performance

Not only do we have one of the most challenging carbon reduction targets across the sector  (50% by 2020) but we are constantly making progress in achieving this target and our latest renewals of the Display Energy Certificates has shown a further improvement in performance.

For more information check out the full of list of display energy certificates here:- http://www.bradford.ac.uk/environment/performance/BuildingData/

With our CHP engine now operational and a planned roll out of further improvements to the campus infrastructure we are confident that we will become the first University to achieve a 50% reduction in carbon emissions.

Recycling Results

Congratulations to all of those working on the area of waste minimisation. With the recycling, composting, food waste schemes we're continuing to see some very positive results.

This year (10/11) saw a rise in recycling rates to 69% (well above target) and a fall in the amount sent to landfill by a massive 32% to 156 Tonnes. These are brilliant results.

Improvements to the waste systems have seen a 22% increase in recycling since the first year of the full recycling system (07/08) and a 48% reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill from 298 Tonnes to 156 Tonnes.

 

Gold Award Winners - 24 June 2011

At last night's Ecoversity Awards held at the Norcroft Centre, Estates and Facilities won the Gold Award in the Green Impact League.

Big congratulations to the following team members who worked hard to achieve this achievement:

Steve Clayson, Maria Fernandez, Doreen Foster, Andrew Hickey, Frances Johnson, Sylvia Lang, John Llewellyn, Chris Mudd and Peter Winn.

 

City Campus Car Parking - 23 June 2011

Increased demand for city campus car parks from September

What's Happening?

We are bringing more of our activities onto the City Campus.   From September 2011 the car parks on the City Campus will be running at the full permit allocation for the first time in a number of years.  Overall City Campus Car Parking Spaces will be kept stable for 2011/12.

How will this affect me?

All existing permits will be valid until current expiry dates, but it will be more difficult to find a space in the car parks at peak times.  If you are struggling to find a space we recommend you use the NCP Car Park on Thornton Road or find other car parks here:  http://www.bradford.gov.uk/asp/carparks/carparks_b.asp

What can I do to make my travelling easier?

Single occupancy car use to our sites has dropped by 1/3 since 2004 to 43% of staff and 14% of students meaning that pressure on car parks is lower than it used to be.   We have a very wide range of options and incentives available for travelling to our sites in different ways:

• Discounted parking for car sharers
• Discounted public transport tickets
• Tax free and second hand bikes, showers and secure storage
• Sponsor and use of Free City Bus
• Remote working and virtual meeting technologies preventing the need for travel
• Single occupancy car use at the University has dropped by a third since 2004, to 43% of staff and 14% of students, meaning that pressure on car parks is lower than it used to be.

Our new travel webpages hold more information on these options: Smart Move Travel

How is the University easing the pressure?

A variety of methods are being investigated to ease the pressure on car parks to maximise the ease in which permit holders can find spaces including:

• Adding additional parking spaces close to the City Campus ¿ overflow parking at Laisteridge Lane site.
• Limiting visitor car parking to a dedicated visitor car park and providing information on other local facilities.

City Campus Car Parks with Capacities (pdf, 319KB)

 

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