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www.le.ac.uk/environment
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