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Creating the Intelligent Campus- Birkbeck College 29 September 2008

ESTATES-IT COLLABORATION– The Crucial Link for Campus Sustainability?

Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting education and research

Professor Peter james

www.susteit.org.uk

BACKGROUND

• SustainIT – world’s first organisation purely focused on sustainable ICT (1999)- European Commission; DTI; BERR- Expert Group on ICT & Energy Efficiency

• Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (www.heepi.org.uk)

• SusteIT- Strategic review of IT in universities- Highlighting and supporting best practice

A LARGE ICT FOOTPRINT

• 2% of global CO2 emissions

• ICT in UK HE- 760,000 PCs- 215,000 servers- associated cooling & power- 147,000 networked printers- 512,000 Mwh of electricity- 275,000 tonnes of CO2 - over £60 million in 2009

BUILDING-IT CONNECTIONS

• Tomorrow’s buildings must support ICT-intensive learning

• BEMS are already reducing costs & energy- can a common IP platform for building services reduce them further?

• IT central to space planning/utilisation

• IT an increasing proportion of building-related energy

IP BUILDING SERVICES• Energy management

• Fire and safety

• HVAC control

• Lighting control

• Lifts

• Room booking and space management

• Security

• Telecommunications