The Energy Manager

I wrote a month or so ago about the new Energy Manager, part-funded by the Carbon Trust, that is working at the university on a consultancy contract for six months. He is working within the Estates Office, on a 2-day-a-week basis. I can now provide further details about what exactly that person will be getting up to:

- Building Energy Managment Systems - the project is to develop a campus-wide BEMS that will allow energy consumption in buildings to be monitored easily and remotely, integrating existing stand-alone monitoring systems in individual buildings.
- Lighting - to develop a comprehensive lighting policy and action programme for both academic and residential buildings that will help deliver a 20% cut in electricity consumption for lighting.
- Biomass Heating - to look at areas where at least three biomass (woodchip burning) boilers can be introduced in buildings at a cost-effective level.
- Campus Refurbishment - providing energy conservation and sustainability input into the refurbishment of 1200 m2 of university office space during the first half of 2007.

For all but the last of these, the goal is that by the time these six months (up to June/July) are up, the tendering process for physical delivery of the changes identified will have begun.