jisc delta project (university of bradford)

Confronting Inequality: Celebrating Diversity

Russell Smith

University of Bradford – Estates Manager Building and Engineering

DASHBOARDS AND THE EFFECTS

June. 14. 2011


Dashboards have to be useable

The EMU Project


Behaviour change can save 10%?


This is how we did it


•Invigorate the local economy

This is how we did it

Users given full access (Green Impact Team) and ownership of Edd:e

The GI team reported anomalies to Estates

The GI team undertook switch-off campaigns

Impressive savings: circa 33%


The Dashboard we used


A typical eMail report


Extremely flexible and it can be configured to send all manner of reports


HoweverIt’s difficult to interpret


Hilary Pape: Ecoversity Academic Pioneer

A none technical perspective of using a dashboard


A user perspective of using a “dashboard” in a behaviour change programme:•Graphs were difficult to see and interpret for non engineers•Info presented not meaningful to School staff•Time consuming to enter Edd:e database and pull out data


A user perspective of using a “dashboard” in a behaviour change programme:•Needed interpretation from estates •Clear graphs help to ‘prove’ results but words probably better•E.G. what this shows is that you have achieved……..


EMU informing the JISC DELTA project

- Element of technical expertise required to interpret

-Good results, but scattergun and information overload

-Dashboards need to be personalised

-Simple information is the best

-Empowerment works


The DELTA Project

Aims:

To develop an electronic dash board, with:

- Real (near) time read back

- Easy to understand: “at a glance”

-Produce meaningful information to the user

-Able to be replicated across a broad range of systems


The Challenge

Two large teaching labs in a multi-story ‘60s building

Ageing infrastructure – leaky building

Engineering layouts not conducive to individual monitoring

Disparate and combined systems

Fume cupboard compliance issues

Interesting lab management practices


The scale of the challenge


Constant Volume and VAV systems

Edd:e metering

Trend BEMS

Fume Cupboards: Waldner and Machaire


Good data on our fume cupboard performance


NEXT Strand one:

Two large teaching labs selected

Working with Edd:e and Waldner on what data can be collected and how

Installation of metering systems over the summer

4 week benchmark period from September –staff to not be informed.

Interventions/campaign launched October


Strand Two:

-Meet with users and get their views

-Deciding what information is to be displayed

-The format of the display – designed with the user in mind

- Link to “Big Green Lab” project


Something like this, perhaps - but web based

Simple traffic light system?


QUESTIONS?

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