Sustainable

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Sustainable Responsible Estates Strategies

• David Somervell, Energy Sustainability
  Manager
• University of Edinburgh Estates
  Buildings Department13 Infirmary Street,
  Edinburgh EH1 1LT Tel [phone]
• http//www.eso.ed.ac.uk David.Somervell_at_ed.
  ac.uk

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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
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there is only 1 planet

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What should Universities and Colleges actually
do?

• Work out a Plan for how you will develop
• Engage with Corporate Strategy process
• Re-frame the Estate Strategy
• Client requirements for HPBs
• Invest in Utilities Infrastructure
• Decentralised Energy Solutions

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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
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Embed sustainability in your estate strategy

• Sustainable development is not limited to large
  scale, new build capital projects
• The principles apply to small developments and
  routine estate / facilities management
• Maintenance, change of use, conversions,
  extensions, internal refits or demolition

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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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High Performance Buildings for Universities
Colleges and how they can be achieved
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Estates Strategy

• Ambitious, unambiguous, sustainability vision,
  targets and specifications
• Continuing relationships with experienced
  contractors so that skills and knowledge can be
  transferred between projects
• Internal capacity to set and implement high
  performance building objectives

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Estates Strategy

• Standard procedures to assess energy efficiency
  and other sustainability features in design, at
  handover, and in use
• Whole life costing approach to decisions,
  including those of value engineering

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Carnegie College, Dunfermline
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Scottish Natural Heritage HQ
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SNH, Great Glen House, Inverness
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Performance vs Benchmark
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Queen Margaret University