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Are you a developer who is interested in greening issues? Do you work directly with estate systems or would you like to learn more? Would you like to learn more about Greening issues and your university? The Developer Community Supporting Innovation Project (http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog) is investigating whether there is scope for developers working in or with universities to be more involved in the systems and services that are currently being used in universities and to learn more directly from the people that manage these systems. We would like to invite you to a FREE workshop / meeting where you will learn more from estate managers, suppliers of systems and anyone else interested. You will be able to talk about the issues that effect you and what you are interested in. For more information please visit: http://www.goodcampus.org/events/info.php?siteID=&refnum=78&startnum=0 and a booking form: http://www.eventlink.org.uk/events/info.php?refnum=78 There are opportunities to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to both improve the efficiency and effectiveness of university and college estates, and to reduce the costs, energy consumption and carbon emissions of buildings. The realisation of these opportunities involves: • Better inter-connection and optimisation of existing building control systems / Buildings Management Systems (BMS), e.g. BMS with CCTV, fire, laboratory ventilation control and other systems; • Interfacing BMS and other building systems with other institutional systems, e.g. data centre management, timetabling; • Better inter-connection and optimisation of operational estates management systems, e.g. condition appraisals, financial project management, job management, and performance management; • Better recording and inter-connection of Estates strategic management information, e.g. Autocad and drawing databases, condition appraisals, historic information such as leases, legislative compliance and terriers. However, achieving these objectives is often difficult in practice. This workshop has therefore been organised in collaboration with the Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) with the aims of: • Identifying current opportunities and barriers, and means of overcoming them • Building links between Estates and ICT practitioners, with the aim of stimulating subsequent technical actions on areas such as interfaces and standards. The event is being funded by JISC, and has been organised by two JISC Green IT projects – DELTA at the University of Bradford and RECSO (Responsible Energy Costs, led by Forum for the Future). Both are associated with the SusteIT initiative. --------------------------------------------- Mr Mahendra Mahey Project Manager DevCSI and CERIFy Projects Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY Tel: ++44 (0) 1225 384594 Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256 Mobile: ++44 (0) 07581069575 email: [log in to unmask] skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------