Friday 22nd March at 5.00pm Llandaff Campus plunged into darkness following an initiative organised by Richard James, the Energy & Environmental Engineer. The idea was to turn off all the lights and electrical items at their source. After the weekend the energy consumption was then compared to previous weeks to ascertain the cost and environmental savings. Both staff and students really bought into the idea and enthusiastically took part in the black out. Fifteen students, ten staff and one member of the SU partici- pated, with some taking up to three hours to complete their check of allocated buildings. Cardiff Met has a Black Out. It all went dark at Llandaff Campus. Stubbing it out at Plas Gwyn. Supporting National No Smoking Day - 12th March 2014. Lisa Ah Mun, (pictured centre resting her foot on a student!) recently championed a No Smoking Day on the Plas Gwyn Campus. Students were encouraged to give up for a day with the enticement of an inter-block sports tournament, chocolate lucky dip and cigarette amnesty. A fun approach to quitting smoking was had by all, with anyone spotted smoking on the campus throughout the day encouraged to don a visi vest and collect 10 cigarette butts! Stubbing it out. Plas Gwyn goes smoke free! 1 Upgrade of Data Projectors. More efficient and cost effective. 2 The arrival of Mobile Printing Print from anywhere, anytime! 3 Compliments. Everybody likes a compliment. 4 Easter Recipe. A delicious recipe from a student. 5 E&F staff in Photos. Jumpers, Chairs & Boyzone! 6 A Year of Resolutions. It’s not as easy as you think. 7 Meet your Colleagues. Richard and Adrian. 8 Inside this issue: Breaking News: Its Double Points time! The whole of April is double points time in Cardiff Mets Catering outlets. Don’t forget generally to present your staff ID card whenever you purchase any item from Catering and watch your points quickly build up. During April double points are available on: Any Eatwell products across all campuses. A 5 Item Breakfast before 9am at either Cyncoed K1 or Llandaff Atrium. The Estates & Facilities Times Not just business as usual. The good news is that we saved up to 25% of night time energy consumption, with 575 items being turned off, and 645kg of carbon being saved. If we all just turn off every- thing as we leave on a Friday, tens of thousands of pounds would be saved annually, and more importantly make a real dent into our carbon footprint. Newsletter Date: 01/04/14
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Friday 22nd March at 5.00pm
Llandaff Campus plunged into
darkness following an initiative
organised by Richard James,
the Energy & Environmental
Engineer.
The idea was to turn off all the
lights and electrical items at
their source. After the weekend
the energy consumption was
then compared to previous
weeks to ascertain the cost and
environmental savings.
Both staff and students really
bought into the idea and
enthusiastically took part in the
black out.
Fifteen students, ten staff and
one member of the SU partici-
pated, with some taking up to
three hours to complete their
check of allocated buildings.
Cardiff Met has a Black Out. It all went dark at Llandaff Campus.
Stubbing it out at Plas Gwyn.
Supporting National No Smoking Day - 12th March 2014.
Lisa Ah Mun, (pictured centre
resting her foot on a student!)
recently championed a
No Smoking Day on the Plas
Gwyn Campus.
Students were encouraged to
give up for a day with the
enticement of an inter-block
sports tournament, chocolate
lucky dip and cigarette amnesty.
A fun approach to quitting
smoking was had by all, with
anyone spotted smoking on the
campus throughout the day
encouraged to don a visi vest
and collect 10 cigarette butts!
Stubbing it out.
Plas Gwyn goes smoke free!
1
Upgrade of Data Projectors.
More efficient and cost effective.
2
The arrival of Mobile Printing
Print from anywhere, anytime!
3
Compliments.
Everybody likes a compliment.
4
Easter Recipe.
A delicious recipe from a student. 5
E&F staff in Photos.
Jumpers, Chairs & Boyzone!
6
A Year of Resolutions.
It’s not as easy as you think. 7
Meet your Colleagues.
Richard and Adrian.
8
Inside this issue:
Breaking News:
Its Double Points time!
The whole of April is double
points time in Cardiff Mets
Catering outlets.
Don’t forget generally to
present your staff ID card
whenever you purchase any
item from Catering and watch
your points quickly build up.
During April double points are
available on:
Any Eatwell products across all
campuses.
A 5 Item Breakfast before 9am
at either Cyncoed K1 or
Llandaff Atrium.
The Estates &
Facilities Times Not just business as usual.
The good news is that we
saved up to 25% of night time
energy consumption, with 575
items being turned off, and
645kg of carbon being saved.
If we all just turn off every-
thing as we leave on a Friday,
tens of thousands of pounds
would be saved annually, and
more importantly make a real
dent into our carbon footprint.
Newsletter Date:
01/04/14
The Estates &
Facilities Times
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* Future proofing the rooms - The new
projectors are HDMI ready and now
able to accommodate room cabling up-
grades as they happen. With the inevita-
ble demise of VGA cabling, this was
seen as paramount to teaching delivery
and the student experience.
* Energy/Cost Efficiency - The new
projectors use less than one watt of
power consumption in standby mode
and last up to ten times longer.
Richard James, Cardiff Met’s energy
manager says:
“The new projectors are an efficient
LED product which alongside improved
If you are interested in cycling to work
and do not currently own a bicycle, or
would like to upgrade your current one,
then hang on until late April.
Cardiff Met will be launching its annual
Cycle to Work window when staff can
purchase a bicycle virtually tax free. You
save around 30% of the cost.
The other added benefit is that you can pay
for it over 12 months, with a host of local
cycle stores to choose from.
All of Cardiff Met’s campuses and
Staff Cycling Update.
You can buy a bike this Spring!
Upgrade of Data Projectors.
Contributed by Sophie Rowland - Estates Helpdesk Administrator.
create timetables for the current year 1
Business & Management students that
progress into year 2. This is dependent
upon students making early module selec-
tions. The pilot should identify any pit-
falls with our current business processes
that may adversely effect this, as well as
establishing resource implications, prior
to this being opened up across all Schools.
This is the first time this has been
attempted and requires a lot of work and a
change to the current timetabling process.
The aim is to produce more user friendly
timetables, as students will only see the
sessions that are relevant to them rather than
having to try and pick out their sessions
from a programme timetable which contains
sessions for all modules
Staff are now able to view their timetables
in Microsoft Outlook, which has been very
popular as staff are increasingly using
mobile devices. We hope to do the same
for students, and in the future hopefully
students will be able to access their
timetables via a mobile app which is being
developed by ISD.
The Timetable Unit is participating in a
project to produce individual student time-
tables. A project team has been set up
including staff from ISD, Registry and
Schools in addition to Timetabling. Cardiff
School of Management are participating in
the initial pilot and we have already
successfully created timetables for Year 3
Computing programmes in time for the
start of last September. Since then we have
created individual timetables for Year 1
Business & Management students. The
pilot will continue from April onwards to
controls, will reduce the energy
consumption of projectors by up to 50%.
Improvements such as this help the Uni-
versity to reduce costs and emissions, and
help work towards achieving increasingly
challenging carbon reduction targets.”
January witnessed the launch of the new
facilities for staff and students who choose
to cycle or walk to work at Llandaff Cam-
pus. They are located on the ground floor
of the new Cardiff School of Art & Design
building, and already seeing plenty of use.
Both male and female changing areas have
several sinks, showers and lockers to store
your clothing. The lockers are designed to
be accessed via your ID card and will
automatically open at midnight each night
to stop anyone making a locker permanent-
ly their own.
particularly Llandaff are quite easily acces-
sible via the power of the peddle. More
details about the purchase window will be
sent to all Cardiff Met staff in late April.
September and October will see the annual
cycle, walk or run to work for a free
breakfast event.
This year though we won’t be issuing the
vouchers but plan to be crediting ID cards,
with staff having to pledge to a particular
travel mode to receive the credit.
Exciting New Developments in Timetabling.
Contributed by Elaine Griffiths - Space/Timetable Manager.