There are still places left, especially for developers.
On 27/10/2011 13:22, Mahendra Mahey wrote:
> 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
> email: [log in to unmask]
> skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey
> http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/
> http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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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
email: [log in to unmask]
skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey
http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://cerify.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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