Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement

See 2007-8 results.

See also 2007-8 Stage 1 Shortlist and details of 2006-7 winning and commended entries in a full brochure, and in a Green Gowns article in a special Estates supplement of the Times Higher.

Also see the shortlist for 2006-7, individual case studies of the 55 winning and commended entries to date, and other publications on Green Gowns, including the 2005-6 brochure and a summary article in a special Times Higher Supplement on Sustainability on the winning and commended entries for the 2005-6 Awards.

SusteIT Workshops
See project outline of our JISC-funded project on sustainable ICT in FHE, and details of our next event on new ways of working (Edinburgh, 21 August).
Also presentations from our Cardiff workshop on 19 June.

New - High Performance Building Reports
Read our new reports - Summary, The Business Case and The Process of Delivery

Environmental Issues
and Regulations
A new report on the Carbon Reduction Commitment, EPBD and EU-ETS
- Details of regulations (now updated to 2007) in full (Environmental Virtual Campus) and in Summary.

People and Planet
Like it or not (and there are some problems with using EMS data for benchmarking - as P&P does - as section 4 of a past HEEPI paper discusses), this is only following the Govt's aim of encouraging 'naming and shaming' through more disclosure of environmental information. A new HEEPI report discusses two new regulations which take this even further, and will have big impacts on HE.

Building Benchmarking
- See our recent reports on benchmarking laboratories and residences, and the results from our 2002-4 benchmarking round, plus details of our other benchmarking activities. Also compare your buildings to sector benchmarks, and identify savings and carbon reduction potential, with our Excel tool.

What is HEEPI?

HEEPI is a project funded under the Leadership, Governance and Management initiative of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The project is based at, and led by, the University of Bradford. The project steering group includes AUDE, BRE, BUFDG, EAUC, TEC, SCOP and UUK.

The project has four main areas of work:

Assisting energy and environmental management in higher education by providing information, running events, developing cases and guidance materials, and other means

Identifying and disseminating best practice in energy and environmental management through the annual Green Gown Awards

Stimulating HE interest in, and take up off, high performance buildings which combine good environmental performance with effective functionality

Developing the capacity of staff with environment-related responsibilities to achieve positive environmental change within their institutions through action workshops and other means.

Click here to see the Heepi Brochure (PDF - 648KB).

Documents

Read our new report on sustainable laboratories in HE. Also previous ones on metering and aM&T and guide to waste management.

Case Studies

These are now available on:

- Waste at Derby

- Water Efficiency at Liverpool JMU

- Green Procurement at Leeds Metropolitan

- Transport at Bristol

- Video Conferencing at Bradford

- Eco-efficient equipment at Edinburgh

- Metering & information provision at UMIST

- Financing energy efficiency at UCL & Leicester

Transport Survey

A standardized HEEPI staff/student online travel survey is now available. See flier. Click here for the paper version. Please contact the project if you would like login details to see the online version. If you are interested in surveying your own staff and/or students we can run a customized on-line version for you very cheaply.

BREEAM for HE/ GreenBuild

See minutes of consultation meetings, and summary of key issues.

Good Campus

Asses the sustainability of your institution with our new self-assessment tool and information resource

Presentations from Cardiff (here) and Past Events (here)

EcoverCity - HE and urban regeneration, June 19 2007, Bradford.

Green Futures for Old Buildings: Sustainable Refurbishment - June 20 2007, King's College (featuring 2007 Green Gowns winner).

Strategic Leadership for Sustainability(with Leadership Foundation)
- June 21 2007, London.

Financing Environmental Improvement - June 22 2007, London.

Sustainable Laboratories - Presentations from events at Katholiek Universitiet Leuven (23 April 2007) and University of Warwick (26 April 2007). See also reports on the Warwick benchmarking workshop and the 2006 UK Labs events.

Renewables on Campus - at Harper Adams UC (27 March 2007). See presentations on Green Gown winning biomass scheme + ground source heat, solar and wind.

Greener Residences - University of Leeds (5 March 2007) - presentations.

High Performance Buildings at Southampton University, 8 Feb 2007 - presentations.

Building Learning - presentations on the Green Gown Award winning National Science Learning Centre, York, and linkages between curriculum and estates.

Labs21 presentations from September events at the University of Glasgow (with a focus on its new laboratories), University of Leeds (with a focus on detailed engineering issues) and Imperial College (with a focus on design issues and UK-US comparisons).
- Presentations from other workshops on Recycling and Cleaning, Biodiversity, POE and Commissioning, the Oxford University Information Engineering Laboratory and BREEAM. Also presentations from the Creating Tomorrow's Campus conference. featuring Leith Sharp from Harvard.

How Yorkshire and Humberside Higher Education Can Help to Minimise the Region's Carbon Dioxide Emissions : HEEPI's Scoping Study for Yorkshire Forward
Download the Report in Word format (163KB)

Sustainable Building Assessment in the FHE Sector
In 2004 HEEPI held 2 workshops that examined the use and need of building assessments to help guide sustainable construction. The outcomes can be seen here and here.

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