Carbon Management
What is involved?
Our Carbon Management service provides the expertise your organisation needs to identify and then effectively implement practical cost and carbon savings.
We can help you reduce carbon emissions across all of your organisation, whether it’s buildings, vehicle fleets, street lighting, waste or leisure facilities, laboratories or halls of residence.
Our service guides participating organisations through a structured process that:
- builds a team
- measures the cost and carbon footprint
- identifies and prioritises projects
- creates a case for action
We make sure you have all the consultant support you need by providing workshops, teleconferences, webinars and national events.
Over 530 public-sector organisations across the UK have already benefited from partnerships through this service, which takes the form of a 5-step process.
The 5 step process
How is Carbon Management different?
Even if your organisation 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 the £ savings made 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", why not consider applying to be on the next round of the Carbon Management service?
How to apply
Our service starts in May each year and requires a minimum commitment of two days a week for 10 months. If you would like your organisation to be considered for the next phase, please email publicsector@carbontrust.co.uk, and include:
- title, forename and surname
- position and organisation
- telephone number
- annual energy bill, and what this bill includes
Why take part?
Local authorities
Local authorities have a leading role to play in Carbon Management, both in ensuring sustainability and making energy efficiency savings. The Climate Change Act, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Energy Efficiency Scheme and Energy Performance in Buildings Directive all increase the onus on local authorities to reduce their emissions.
The Carbon Management service can help to structure your response. We can work with police, fire and rescue services, housing associations, passenger transport executives, and national parks.
We also offer a collaborative Low Carbon Schools Service specifically to help local authorities work with their schools to drive Carbon Management.
Expert advice for Local Authorities
Higher education institutions
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.
Expert advice for Higher Education institutions and Colleges of Further education.
NHS Trusts
With an annual energy bill of over £600m, total carbon emissions from the NHS represent 3% of the UK total. The Department of Health and the NHS Sustainable Development Unit are working on carbon reduction policies and targets to meet anticipated government requirements. By effectively managing their emissions, NHS Trusts can prepare for regulation such as the Carbon Reduction Commitment and the Energy Performance in Buildings directive.
Expert advice for NHS Trusts
Central government organisations
Central government in England is responsible for an estimated 18% of public-sector emissions. From Whitehall departments to prisons, we help central government organisations show leadership in creating a low carbon economy. By meeting and exceeding carbon budgets and greening government targets, departments can also maximise efficiency.
We can work with prisons, the armed forces, non-departmental government bodies, museums, galleries etc.
Expert advice for Central Government
Carbon Management Revisited
A Carbon Management Revisited option is available for organisations who have previously participated on a carbon management programme, but where organisational changes or the passage of time mean that additional opportunities to cut energy costs and carbon exist. We will provide you with up-to-date guidance and tools to help you reinvigorate your organisation and update your plan.
If you are interested in participating on Carbon Management Revisited in 2012-13, please email publicsector@carbontrust.co.uk.
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, NHS organisations 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:
- Building-integrated renewables
- Biomass Heating
- Cooling and Air Handling
- Combined Heat & Power and decentralised energy
- 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.
Collaborative Low Carbon Schools Service
This year-long programme is designed to increase capacity and knowledge around energy efficiency in the local authority schools estate. The service enables local authorities and schools to drive quick payback, low cost, energy saving measures.
Engaging initially with a pilot group of schools, the service will then develop the capability to roll out support to all schools. Savings of between 8% and 30% on energy bills have been demonstrated within 8 months of the start of the programme.
The service covers seven key steps to effective school Carbon Management, while offering a flexible approach so that authorities can set and achieve their own goals for carbon reduction within an overall support framework. If you would like your organisation to be considered for the service, please email publicsector@carbontrust.co.uk, with "Collaborative Low Carbon Schools Service" in the subject line and include your:
- title, forename and surname
- position and organisation
- telephone number
- annual energy bill, and what this bill includes
Tailored support
Once you have made the decision to reduce your carbon footprint, it can be hard to know where to start. The Carbon Trust can provide you with independent, accredited consultants to help you identify key energy-saving opportunities.
Our consultants can help on simple low or no-cost measures to bigger projects with longer payback periods. We also offer tailored support to help projects go smoothly – from feasibility studies and helping with technical specifications through to making the business case.
Through our tailored service we can provide independent advice on the financial and management considerations involved in delivering complex projects. We can also help you in the drive to reduce area-wide emissions thanks to our expertise in decentralised energy and renewable solutions.
Across all of our services we simplify the procurement process and ensure that best value is delivered. Give us a call on 0800 085 2005 or apply online now to discuss our eligibility criteria, costs and next steps.
