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EMWG Environment Team - Annual Review

Dr Emma FieldhouseEnvironmental ManagerUniversity of Leicester

Outline

• Main areas of progress this year by work theme

• Additional work completed in 2009/10

• The year in pictures

• Salix Funding – over half of the fund has been committed or spent (£565,368.85)– £131K pipework insulation with 1.7 yr

payback– £33K MSB lighting 3.5 yr payback

• Combined Heat & Power– Detailed design work of Leicester

scheme underway – PIT established– City scheme – ESCo appointment

imminent

ENERGY

• Recycling scheme now in all satellite buildings

• Free collections of fluorescent tubes and batteries set-up – annual savings of c.£8,000

• New, cheaper shredding contract arranged

• Waste auditing crossed boundaries with teaching and learning – now incorporated into ‘Ecological Futures’ final year Geography course

WASTE

• STIG established

• Henry Wellcome car parking issues resolved with mini Travel Plan

• Travel surveys receive good response

• City Council pleased with progress of Plan

• Cycle-to-Work scheme now live

• Travel summary is ready for release across University

TRANSPORT

• Water Audit Services auditing water use at all residential /non-residential sites

• Further recommendations awaited

• TOR of working group in development

• Positive impacts of early feed into design meeting

WATER

BIODIVERSITY/LAND MANAGEMENT

CONSTRUCTION/REFURBISHMENT

• 10:10 – expecting to achieve 10% reduction in carbon by end of 2010

• Little Green Week – prelude to Big Green Week

• Green Impact – 17 departments have now submitted workbooks for the Green Impact Awards

• Universities that Count – submission made

• Green League Table – submission made

COMMUNICATIONS

Additional work completed

• Env Sus Strategy to 2015

• Ticks boxes for reporting in terms of SMART objectives

• Sets out high-level goals for next 5 years

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Internship

• Project progressing well and extended to maximise outputs

• Both Universities that Count and Green League Table have focussed upon ESD in their questions this year

• Will provide information to feed into the Green Leicester web project (in the ESS)

The year in pictures