Sustainability Engagement

Caroline OveryEngagement Team Leader

Sustainability Engagement

• Approach

• Current focus

• Achievements

Approach

• Conversations with building users• Existing knowledge and experience• Increase staff and student ownership

• Working with academic requirements• Effectively embeds energy saving in work

Approach

• Collaborating to reduce energy wastage and improve sustainability

Current Focus

• Around 20 buildings– 1000 people spoken to so far– Active collaboration with Edinburgh

Sustainability Awards and Switch and Save• Example: Grant Institute

• Face to face engagement with follow-up• Buildings-related• Lab managers and technicians

Achievements

• Quantitative Reduction• 4.1% reduction in electricity consumption in target

locations compared to the same months last year• Annualised, this leads to a £89,000 saving.

On track to meet our target of £72,000

• Qualitative Results• Enhancing relations between different

sections of the University community• Engaging people with sustainability

on a practical level