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thermal comfort +28%

air quality +36%

lighting +25%

noise +26%

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User Satisfaction

An energy efficient building reduces carbon dioxide

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is a better building to work in.

• UEA generates 3 MW of its own electricity

• saves over 9000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

• saves around £40,000 a month

• exploring installation of absorption chiller - the WIN - WIN option

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Other examples where UEA is leading the way.

Student Residences

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Community Carbon Reduction Project (CRed)

Low Carbon Innovation Centre

Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research

School of Environmental Sciences

Why CRed?

Why CRed?

• Energy White Paper – aspiration for 60% cut in CO2 emissions by 2050

• Will require unprecedented partnership activity in local communities to ensure on track by 2020s

Why CRed? Opportunity• Leading the way to the new lower-

carbon economy• Attracting people with new ways of

thinking and new ways of doing things• Norwich/Norfolk, with partners in the

East of England, showing the world – “exemplar for the world”

Ambition

To engage, enthuse and empower a large, diverse community to debate, plan and execute a

programme to reduce carbon emissions by up to 60% by 2025

The Challenges

• Awareness, perceptions, attitudes, acceptances

• Awareness-raising, demonstration & research project

• Scientific/technological

CRedibility?School of Environmental Sciences (6*)

HQ Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Climatic Research Unit Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global

Environment Centre for Environmental Risk

East Anglian Business Environment ClubEnvironmental Management Systems ClubSchools’ Energy ClubSchools’ Waste Club

The CRed Community

• Participatory/inclusive• Spark imaginations• Modes of participation (targets/methods)• Matrix of modes of participation = representative of

real-world complexity• Centred on Norwich/Norfolk, but links across the

region, country, the world….• Partnerships

Some Partners– City– County (incl. LEA)– Districts– The Broads Authority– Norwich Research Park– Norwich Union (Aviva)– Powergen– Housing Association– Transport Organisations– Building Developers– Building Partnerships– EEEGR

Norwich New Build

• CRed partnership:– City Council, Bovis,

Persimmon, Flagship Broadland, community groups, EST.

– Initial phase: – Carbon Index 8.6

minimum. Some homes much better.

1200 Energy Efficient homes in Bowthorpe,

West Norwich

Operational Team

• Project Manager• Project Officer• Data and information management• SME Co-ordinator: link to EABEC & EMS

Club• External liaison officer• Research associate

Project Plan - 1

• Feasibility Phase: 24 months– Project scope: 6 months including

• Building the community• Learning from experiences elsewhere

– Project Specification: 18 months• Benchmarking• Accounting processes• Options analysis• Options selection

Project Plan - 2

• Strategic Plan Phase: 6 months• Developing the implementation plan

• Implementation Phase (mid 2005)• Implementation of carbon reduction

options• Evaluation• Refinement

Launches

• National launch - May 21st in Westminster

• Local launch - May 22nd at the Forum

CRed can:

Identify obstacles to the adoption of low carbon practices

Help overcome themIntegrate myriad activitiesThrough partnerships, provide joined-up thinkingPromote demonstration and awareness-raising projectsStimulate/encourage research (scientific, economic,

policy)Influence decision-making and policy

We can all do so much more… • Consumers will pay for energy efficiency• Builders need encouragement, but will respond (improve

information and grant procedures)• Revision of building regulations- bye-laws to allow

Councils to improve (e.g. Norwich – Carbon Index 9.6?)• Separate CI for building envelope and heating system?• Improvements needed for small-scale CHP under NETA

(61% reduction following NETA); scheme such as the Renewable Obligations Certificate?