Fingers crossed for the Green Gown Awards!

By joburtonOct 17, 20140 Comments
The EAUC's Green Gown awards ceremony is fast approaching, where the University is shortlisted in the 'carbon reduction' category. Check out the video explaining how our fume cupboard energy efficiency upgrades are saving £90,000 a year, and 343 tCO2.  Keep your fingers crossed for us on Monday 3rd November! Here's a photo of our the simple, interactive energy display we've installed in the Chemistry labs, designed by our Go Green Week competition winner, to indicate in real time how efficiently the cupboards are operating:                      
Awards and Achievements
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Recycling League: Minghella takes top spot!

By joburtonSep 29, 20140 Comments
Breaking news: the first set of results for the Recycling League are now in for the new academic year!  Congratulations to everyone in the Minghella building - you've achieved the top spot with a fantastic recycling rate of 88%, keep up the good work. However, close on Minghella's heels in joint second place are Whiteknights House and Central Catering (Park House and Eat @ The Square) with a brilliant recycling rate of 83%. The current recycling rate target is 60% and 14 buildings and departments meeting or (vastly!) exceeding this.  Many more of you are not far from achieving this, so every can,…
Awards and Achievements, Waste and Recycling
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UoR Awarded 14001 and EcoCampus Platinum!!

By joburtonSep 09, 20140 Comments
An outstanding achievement once again! The University of Reading's Environmental Management System for Whiteknights and London Rd has achieved the international standard ISO 14001 and the EcoCampus Platinum award for the second time running! An Environmental Management Systems (EMS) is a structured framework for managing the institute's significant environmental impacts in order to move towards a more sustainable way of working. Vice-Chancellor Sir David Bell said: "The successful achievement of ISO 14001 is an important milestone in our commitment to minimise our effect on the environment. Staff, students and third party stakeholders can now have a degree of assurance that…
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2 more sustainability award shortlistings!

By joburtonSep 03, 20140 Comments
Our continued carbon reduction achievements have been recognised with two shortlistings for the national Sustainability Leaders Award. We are one of 7 www.edie.netcompanies shortlisted in the Carbon Management category, recognising how we are building on our carbon emissions cuts of over 20% in the last 4 years.  Specifically, the shortlisting recognises how the tools we have developed are providing a clear vision of how we can continuously reduce our carbon emissions into the future. Meanwhile, our shortlisting in the Energy Efficiency category recognises our achievements in cutting laboratory fume cupboard energy use, and the work that's underway to replicate this across…
Awards and Achievements, Energy and Water
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Biggest ever carbon reduction programme!

By joburtonJul 16, 20140 Comments
  We've got our largest ever carbon reduction programme planned for 2014/15; with over £2 million earmarked for investment.  Here's a taster of what's coming up: We've got a large focus on science buildings, with our top 5 energy using buildings all being science facilities, and making up a large chunk of our carbon footprint: Our new Energy Review tool is helping us understand the potential for carbon savings right across the estate: To keep in touch with our latest news, why not follow us @UniRdg_Sust or like us on Facebook at CleanandGreenUoR.
Awards and Achievements, Energy and Water
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Morris and Blunt go green

By joburtonApr 23, 20140 Comments
  University Building contractor, Morris and Blunt have invested in low carbon technology, in the form of an electric vehicle. Taking advantage of their locality to the Whiteknights Campus, Morris and Blunt have taken the opportunity to work in the spirit of the University's aim to reduce carbon emissions by 35% 2015/16. This will fit in nicely with the existing electric fleet on campus, including the Clean&Green van and the Microbiology transport units. Morris & Blunt Ltd is an established main contractor builder specialising in public sector new build, extension and refurbishment work.
Energy and Water
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Green Impact 2013/14

By joburtonApr 09, 20140 Comments
Here’s the news we’ve all been waiting to hear: the results of the Green Impact Awards 2013/14! It’s been another busy year with a record number of entries. Some of the highlights include the School of Construction Management & Engineering, Institute of Education – Technical Team and 2 new UPP teams joining the awards. The awards ceremony will be held on 9th May in the Meadow Suite. We were going to hold the suspense until the day, but we couldn't hold it off any longer so we wanted to publish the results on our blog. You can view the League…
Awards and Achievements, Energy and Water
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Latest carbon reduction projects underway

By joburtonApr 01, 20140 Comments
Here’s our latest carbon reduction project news.  Lighting improvements We’ve been investing in lots more energy efficient lighting, with improvements in 3 of the SAGES (School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science) buildings now pretty much complete.  As well as more modern, efficient light fittings, intelligent sensors have been installed to make sure the lights dim/turn off when there is either sufficient daylight, or no one is present.  Further lighting work is shortly due to begin in the Maths & IT building and the Harborne building and our thanks go to the Green Impact teams in both buildings, who highlighted…
Energy and Water, Policy
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