Sustainability and Facilities Management

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• Sustainability and Facilities Management
• John Sullivan
• Energy Sustainability Office
• Facilities Services Division

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Environmental Management Plan

• Eight key target areas
• Energy Greenhouse management
• Water Management
• Waste Management Recycling
• Biodiversity
• Pollution Prevention Environmental Risk
  Management
• Transport
• Community Awareness
• Environmental Management

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Energy Greenhouse Management

• Objective To achieve a continual improvement in
  energy conservation
• Target To reduce absolute energy consumption
  and greenhouse gas emission levels to 10 below
  the base line year (2002) by 2008

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Energy Reduction Strategies

• Switch it off stickers distributed through the
  campus
• Shut the window stickers
• Back of the loo campaign
• Individual reports to areas on energy consumption
  
• The purchase of green energy

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Water Conservation

• Objective To achieve continual improvement in
  water conservation
• Target Reduce consumption levels by 10 by 2008
  based on 2002 consumption

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Water Reduction Strategies

• The purchase of 31.5 mega litres of recycled
  waste water for two of the ANU playing fields
• The purchase of vacuum pumps to replace venturi
  devices in labs
• The introduction of process cooling units for
  heat exchange on equipment

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Water Reduction Strategies

• Trial of Grey water treatment systems
• Landscape planning incorporating more drought
  hardy plant stock and design focusing on use of
  natives
• The use of water efficient appliances ,low flow
  showers, dual flush toilets, waterless urinals,

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Waste Management

• Objective To achieve best practice in recycling
  waste management
• Target Reduction of waste going to landfill by70
  ( from 2002 levels) by 2008

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Recycling Strategies

• Paper
• Cardboard
• Co-Mingled material
• Steel
• IT Waste
• Styrofoam
• Printing Consumables
• Furniture
• Food Waste
• Fluoro Tubes
• Batteries

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Biodiversity

• Objective To manage biodiversity in an
  ecologically appropriate manner in consultation
  with the university community
• Target Develop implement a biodiversity
  management plan

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Pollution Prevention Environmental Risk
Management

• Objective to continually improve pollution
  prevention actions and to achieve best practice
  in environmental management in line with the ACT
  EPA

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Transport

• Objective to positively contribute to
  addressing University-related aspects of the
  sustainable urban transport issues for Canberra
• Targets
• Increase the efficiency of the University car
  fleet
• Reduce the environmental impact of the
  universitys community commuting

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Community Awareness

• Objective To promote corporate and community
  awareness of environmental issues
• Target Increase the number of people/areas
  considering environmental impact of decisions

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Environmental Management

• Objective To promote corporate and community use
  of ANUgreen as an internal environmental
  consulting unit within the campus
• Target to develop a cross institutional
  approach to environmental management. All major
  areas within the ANU to have developed an EMS by
  2008

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Conclusion

• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Rethink

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Thankyou