Events

Forthcoming

To be announced.


Past

Financing Energy and Environmental Improvement
22 June, University College London. See presentations

Strategic Sustainability: Transforming Green Rhetoric into Gritty
Reality
21 June 2007, Leadership Foundation, London. See presentations.

Green Futures for Old Buidings - Sustainable Reurbishment of the HE Estate
20 June 2007, King's College, London. See presentations.

EcoverCity: Education. Architecture. Regeneration, with a particular
focus on the role of higher education in creating sustainable cities
19 June 2007, University of Bradford. See presentations.

Improving Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Laboratories

26 April 2007, University of Warwick. See presentations and workshop summary report.

Labs21 Europe - Improving Sustainability and Safety in European Laboratories
23 April, KU Leuven, Belgium. See presentations.

EAUC 11th Annual Conference - Bridging the Gap
How Sustainability Links Campus, Community and Curriculum
18-19 April 2007, Queen’s Campus, University of Durham
Visit www.eauc.org.uk for further details
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Renewables on Campus
27 March 2007, Harper-Adams University College, Shropshire. See presentations.

Sustainable Residences – Creating Low Carbon Buildings & Environmentally Aware Students
5 March 2007, University of Leeds
A joint HEEPI & Unipol event in collaboration with ASRA, BACHE & CUBO. See presentations.
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High Performance Buildings
8 February 2007, Southampton University. See presentations.

Greener Residences - Improving Energy Efficiency in Existing, New and Refurbished Accommodation:
Energy Benchmarking Workshop
30 November, King's College London

Workshop to discuss and analyse energy consumption in HE residences with tour of a facility. See Workshop summary report.

Building Learning - using the estate for teaching and research
24 November, University of York

Workshop in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Futures and the Higher Education Academy - GEES, which examined the use of an institution’s buildings and grounds for academic purposes. See
presentations.

Recycling and Greener Cleaning
17 October, University of Leeds

Workshop on the green Gown winning and highly commended entries for waste, plus sessions on sustainable cleaning products. See presentations.

Designing Sustainable Laboratories
22 September, Imperial College London

Workshop on designing sustainable laboratories, with presentations on UK/US experience and breakout groups. Speakers included Geoffrey Bell. See presentations


Designing Sustainable Laboratories
20 September, University of Leeds

One day specialist course on energy efficient laboratory design, led by Geoffrey Bell, an expert on laboratory HVAC systems from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California. See presentations


Achieving High Performance Buildings
18 September, University of Glasgow

One day conference forming part of the launch of Labs21 UK, with speakers from Glasgow and the US on experience of High Performance Buildings at Glasgow and the US. See presentations.

Biodiversity
23 August, Hatfield, University of Hertfordshire. See presentations.

Post Occupancy Evaluation and Commissioning
13 July, University of Westminster

Presentations by Mel Barlex on Aude's work; Bill Bordass and/or Adrian Leaman on PROBE; and on implementation at the University of Bath. See presentations


Creating High Performance Buildings: Oxford's Information Engineering Laboratory
21 June 2006 at Oxford University

Presentations by the University and architects RMJM on the key features of the building and how they were designed through the design and build process. Also a presentation by Sun on designing and managing IT facilities for low energy consumption. See presentations.


BREEAM for Higher Education
28 April 2006 at Sheffield Hallam University. See presentations.

Travel Planning for Higher Education
16 May 2006 at the University of Derby.

A collaborative master class with ACT featuring winning (Southampton) and commended (Derby) transport entries from last year's Green Gown Awards, and a presentation on the HEEPI transport survey.

Improving Environmental Performance Through Management Systems

9 February 2006 at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham

The University of Gloucestershire is the first English university to gain campus-wide accreditation to the environmental management system (EMS) standard, ISO14001, and will present on its implementation, and benefits. The sector's rising interest in EMS is also indicated by HEFCE funding for the EcoCampus project, which will provide a template for an education specific model. The event will provide the first public opportunity to hear about the content and plans of EcoCampus, and how it relates to ISO 14001. Download flier

Changing Staff and Student Behaviour Towards Sustainability
16 February 2006 at York St John College

York St John’s Students’ Union has set up an innovative 'Pick it Up' anti-litter campaign supported by the Panto Dames. If delegates wish hard they might appear at this event – but just look behind you to make sure you haven’t discarded anything by mistake! The speakers include their employer, the Union’s President, Jack Woodhams; Antje Danielson, now of the University of Durham but previously worked on student awareness programmes at the Harvard University Green Campus Initiative); and Dr Liz Sharpe from University of Bradford, who will describe the latest research on how to effectively communicate environmental messages. Download flier

For more information or to book, please email events@heepi.org.uk