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Sustainable & Responsible Estates Strategies

Explore strategies for embedding sustainability in university campus estate management. Learn about decentralized energy solutions, renewable energy sources, waste management, and more. This guidance offers insights on high-performance buildings and achieving sustainability goals.

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Sustainable & Responsible Estates Strategies

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  1. Sustainable & Responsible Estates Strategies David Somervell, Energy & Sustainability Manager University of Edinburgh – Estates & Buildings Department13 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT Tel 0131 650 2073 http://www.eso.ed.ac.ukDavid.Somervell@ed.ac.uk

  2. Extreme droughts will plague sub-Saharan Africa. Children stand behind one of thousands of livestock that died from thirst in southern Ethiopia. [REUTERS March 2006]

  3. … there is only 1 planet

  4. What should Universities and Colleges actually do? • Work out a Plan for how you will develop • Engage with Corporate Strategy process • Re-frame the Estate Strategy • Client requirements for HPBs • Invest in Utilities Infrastructure • Decentralised Energy Solutions

  5. Sustainable Development Guidance for Estate ManagementMarch 2008 Prepared on behalf of the Scottish Funding Council by Thirdwave The Business Case for Sustainability www.sfc.ac.uk

  6. Embed sustainability in your estate strategy • Sustainable development is not limited to large scale, new build capital projects • The principles apply to small developments and routine estate / facilities management • Maintenance, change of use, conversions, extensions, internal refits or demolition

  7. Consider the following: • Minimise energy, incl insulation and natural ventilation • Renewable energy sources, inc passive solar energy • Building layout and flexible design • Building materials, including recycled content • Water management, including drainage • Pollution and toxicity • Waste management and recycling • Biodiversity • Site waste and site management plans and • Transportation and travel plan development

  8. High Performance Buildings for Universities & Colleges … and how they can be achieved

  9. Estates Strategy • Ambitious, unambiguous, sustainability vision, targets and specifications • Continuing relationships with experienced contractors so that skills and knowledge can be transferred between projects • Internal capacity to set and implement high performance building objectives

  10. Estates Strategy • Standard procedures to assess energy efficiency and other sustainability features in design, at handover, and in use • Whole life costing approach to decisions, including those of value engineering

  11. Carnegie College, Dunfermline

  12. Scottish Natural Heritage HQ

  13. SNH, Great Glen House, Inverness

  14. Performance vs Benchmark

  15. Queen Margaret University

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