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Green Digital Charter Study Tour. Welcome to Birmingham. Smart City Birmingham. Green Digital Charter. Birmingham co-developer and first wave signatory 2009 Close cooperation internally Climate Change & Sustainability, Digital Birmingham, Property Services.
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Green Digital Charter Study Tour Welcome to Birmingham Heike Schuster-James Program Manager
Green Digital Charter • Birmingham co-developer and first wave signatory 2009 • Close cooperation internally Climate Change & Sustainability, Digital Birmingham, Property Services • Chapter ‘ICT & Energy Efficiency in the Roadmap’ with 6 actions • Energy data • Building management • Estate management • School premises • Wellbeing and fuel poverty • Intelligent energy infrastructure research
Street Lighting • Amey – 25 strategic contract and partnership (PFI) • Improving and maintaining Birmingham’s highways • 2500 km of roads • >850 highways structures and bridges • < 100,000 street lights • 2010-15 accelerated improvement
Home Logbook • An one-stop online place for social housing tenants • Supporting behaviour change and sustainable tenancies • Take responsibility for own home (payments, heating, ventilation, furnishings) • Work with Family Housing Association includes energy savings advice • Tenant training house offers information about electricity, gas and water usage, each room gives different advice • Direct and indirect carbon savings: landlords save on printed information and have more lasting tenancies, tenants change their behaviour
Smart Spaces • Building Energy Management • 3 pilot sites • Training building professionals • Informing building users through website
Thank you Enjoy your Visit!