Sustainable & Responsible Estates Strategies
David Somervell, Energy & Sustainability Manager University of Edinburgh – Estates & Buildings Department
13 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT Tel 0131 650 2073 http://www.eso.ed.ac.uk [email protected]
Extreme droughts will plague sub-Saharan Africa. Children stand behind one of thousands of livestock that died from thirst in southern Ethiopia. [REUTERS March 2006]
… there is only 1 planet
What should Universities and Colleges actually do?
1. Work out a Plan for how you will develop
2. Engage with Corporate Strategy process
3. Re-frame the Estate Strategy
4. Client requirements for HPBs
5. Invest in Utilities Infrastructure
6. Decentralised Energy Solutions
Sustainable Development Guidance for
Estate Management March 2008
Prepared on behalf of the Scottish Funding Council by
Thirdwave
The Business Case for Sustainability
www.sfc.ac.uk
Embed sustainability in your estate strategy
1. Sustainable development is not limited to large scale, new build capital projects
2. The principles apply to small developments and routine estate / facilities management
3. Maintenance, change of use, conversions, extensions, internal refits or demolition
Consider the following:
• Minimise energy, incl insulation and natural ventilation • Renewable energy sources, inc passive solar energy• Building layout and flexible design• Building materials, including recycled content • Water management, including drainage• Pollution and toxicity• Waste management and recycling• Biodiversity• Site waste and site management plans and • Transportation and travel plan development
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Estates Strategy
1. Ambitious, unambiguous, sustainability vision, targets and specifications
2. Continuing relationships with experienced contractors so that skills and knowledge can be transferred between projects
3. Internal capacity to set and implement high performance building objectives
Estates Strategy
4. Standard procedures to assess energy efficiency and other sustainability features in design, at handover, and in use
5. Whole life costing approach to decisions, including those of value engineering
Carnegie College, Dunfermline
Scottish Natural Heritage HQ
SNH, Great Glen House, Inverness
Performance vs Benchmark
Performance Benchmarking-sample Units Accepted Benchmark
Naturally vented building
Predicted for SNH Achieved
Heating/Hot Water
Kwh/m2/annum 151 70 tba
Electricity
Kwh/m2/annum 54 25 tba
Carbon Emission
kgC/m2/annum 16.76* >8 7.16
Air leakage
m3/m2/hour@50pa 10+ 5 4.87
Water use
Litres/occupant/annum 58 9.9 tba
*converted using actual building/met. data
Queen Margaret University