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 David.Somervell@ed.ac.uk

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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