On Wednesday 14 May, staff and students launched a new campaign to tag a selection of the University’s innovative investments in reducing our carbon emissions on campus.
Dr Neil Smith, Environment Manager, said: “The University has made some significant and creative changes across its campuses, but often these changes are hidden or invisible. This campaign rightly draws attention to them, and to the big impact they have made.”
In Chemistry, a tag highlights a project to link the fume extractor fans to the outside wind speed, which was a first in the UK. This allows the fans to run at variable speeds, saving, on its own, in the region of £47,000 and 250 tonnes of carbon every year.
The campaign is being run as a pilot in nine locations. If successful, an even larger number of changes will be celebrated in the new academic year.
This work is supported by the University’s Carbon Management Fund – a £4m investment in ideas that will reduce the institution’s emissions and improve the sustainability of our campuses.
Pictured above with the first tag outside the Hartley Library are Dr Neil Smith (Environment Manager), Lydia Butler (incoming SUSU Ethical and Environmental Officer), Mark Illingworth (Sustainability Officer in the Hartley Library), Julia Kendal (Sustainability Action Officer), John Duff (Assistant Director of Estates and Facilities) and Sarah Muskett (SUSU E&E Blackout Officer).