Higher Education Carbon Management
Participants of past and and current Public Sector Management (xls)
Why take part?
Carbon is a vital issue for university senior management and universities have a key role to play in leading the UK's 80% carbon emissions reduction by 2050. By proactively managing carbon emissions, they can also maximise financial benefits from the Carbon Reduction Commitment.
What is involved?
Our Carbon Management service provides the expertise your institution needs to identify and then effectively implement practical cost and carbon savings.
Our service guides participating organisations through a structured process that:
- identifies carbon saving projects
- provides analysis software and tools
- facilitates training and workshops
We make sure you have all the consultant support you need by providing workshops, teleconferences, webinars and national events. Our service takes the form of a 5-step process.
The 5 steps
How is Carbon Management different?
Even if your institution has already reduced its carbon emissions, you can still benefit from Carbon Management. Have a think about the following questions:
- Is everyone in your organisation thinking about carbon reduction?
- Has your organisation recorded its £ savings through energy reduction so far?
- Is there a list of future short, medium, and long-term measures in place to ensure green growth?
- Does your organisation know how cost-efficient these measures will be?
If the answer to any of the above is "no", you should seriously consider applying to be on the next round of the carbon management service.
How to apply
Our Higher Education Carbon Management service starts in April each year and all we need from you is a commitment of two days a week for 10 months. If you would like your institution to be considered for the next phase, please email publicsector@carbontrust.co.uk, and include your:
- title, forename and surname
- position and organisation
- telephone number
- annual energy bill, and what this bill includes.
Strategic Design Advice (SDA)
Accredited expertise to help identify and implement carbon reduction in the design, construction and review of new or large developments. The Carbon Trust, together with a small pool of highly-skilled and accredited consultants, will work with your team to challenge conventional design standards and provide strategic interventions to ensure that carbon and life-cycle costs are accounted for throughout the design process. Advice is provided in two areas, Low Carbon Buildings Design Advice and Data Centre Design Advice.
Low Carbon Buildings (LCBDA)
Three streams of work are available to help customers planning a new development, or refurbishment project.
- Stream 1: New build construction and multi-site template designs. Working with your design team, this service aims to set buildings’ emissions targets and meet them through strategic interventions during the design and build process.
- Stream 2: The Carbon Manager. The Carbon Manager can be engaged at any point through the construction process to act as a “critical friend” on issues relating to the carbon impact of the build process, embodied carbon, life-cycle assessments and value engineering and post-occupancy evaluation.
- Stream 3: Decentralised energy. Support to the public sector and developers on local energy networks incorporating renewable technologies and district heating
Ideally, the customer is engaged early on in order to optimally influence decisions around site selection, building orientation, architectural and passive design, as well as energy strategies including renewables.
Data Centre (DCDA)
This service will reduce your carbon footprint, your operational energy costs, the burden of CRC, and provide resilience to current and future legislation.
With a low carbon focus firmly on the client, the service can either set the scope for a new data centre, or review the performance of an existing one. It looks at software and what data storage might be required, hardware and how many servers are needed, and facilities support such as associated building and engineering services.
The client is able to select design configurations, having compared recommended vendors’ hardware, and capital and operational cost – an holistic calculation with both IT and the supporting infrastructure in mind.
The efficient operation of the facility is paramount: essential testing, written guidelines, and training of the client’s teams all ensure an optimal and low carbon occupation.
Get in touch now and find out how to apply for design advice:
Collaborative Implementation Programmes
To help progress implementation, Higher Education Institutes with similar carbon reduction projects are taken through a series of workshops run by leading experts in key technology areas.
Starting with an introduction to the technology, the workshops address common and sector-specific barriers to implementation. The implementation process is mapped, looking at performance specifications, design, tendering and installation, advice on contractual negotiation and practical examples from within the region where available. Each attendee will create a detailed action plan to take away. Technology days include:
- Renewable Heating technologies, with a focus on Biomass
- Solar Energy for Schools
- Decentralised Energy and campus-based renewables
- Electrical energy efficiency within buildings
- Focus on voltage management
- Motors and Variable speed Drives
- Effective behavioural change workshop
If you are interested in our collaborative implementation programmes, please contact us.
Carbon Trust Implementation can also help you obtain a set of high quality, competitive proposals for an energy efficiency project at no upfront cost.
Surveys
We can provide expert advice as well as walk-around surveys to help you plan cost-effective carbon reduction projects.
Once you have requested a survey, an accredited consultant will visit your organisation and work with you to:
- review your energy usage
- identify energy-saving opportunities
- define practical ‘next steps’
Some of our recommendations involve no capital outlay whatsoever. But if any capital expenditure is necessary, our consultant will work with you to calculate the payback period.
Apply for a survey online now and after we receive your application, we’ll give you a call to discuss our eligibility criteria and what we need from you.
University of Liverpool
Since joining the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Management programme, the University of Liverpool has implemented a number of carbon reduction initiatives, including an innovative PC power-down project.
King’s College London
King’s College London has progressed from small-scale action to challenging refurbishment and renewable energy projects, cutting its CO2 emissions by over 3,000 tonnes in one year. It now stands to generate savings of £4.4 million.
Cambridge University
Working with the Carbon Trust has helped Cambridge University to reduce its annual energy bills by £476,000, through a collaborative approach to efficiency.
Loughborough University
Loughborough University's staff engagement programme, part of its Carbon Management Plan, has achieved stellar results, gaining a 5% reduction in site energy consumption in its first year.
Sheffield Hallam University
Virtualisation software for its IT services has enabled Sheffield Hallam University to save £43,000 a year and 270 tonnes of CO2.
Cranfield University
Cranfield University set out to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% over five years from a 2005/2006 baseline of 16,000 tonnes.