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.
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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
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skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey
http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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