18/02/2016 | Supporting education and research | Slide 1 High Performance Buildings – The Crucial Role of IT - King’s College 30 September 2008 ESTATES-IT COLLABORATION – The Crucial Link for Campus Sustainability? Joint Information Systems CommitteeSupporting education and research Professor Peter James

HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS Effective in all key dimensions - functional, comfort and safety, statements, AND sustainable AND flexible - avoid the cul-de-sac of ‘green construction’ Benefits of a holistic, iterative, design process - user needs; right sizing; systems integration Maximising synergistic features - e.g. natural lighting and ventilation Highlighting flexibility

CLIMATE GROUP/MCKINSEY STUDY ICT can reduce 2020 CO2 emissions by 15% $946 billion of cost savings 21% of reductions from ICT improved building design, management and control Other reductions also building related - smart grids (26%) - dematerialisation (6%)

FHE BUILDING CONTEXT A number of excellent examples - new e.g. Queen Mother Building, Dundee - old, e.g. Elizabeth Fry Building, East Anglia - forthcoming, e.g. Informatics, Edinburgh Many new buildings are creating a long-term burden of excessive cost, and inflexibility There is no alternative - regulation; funding councils; reputation - changing markets

RESIDENCE PERFORMANCE - Fossil fuel heated, 3000 m 2 TypeFossil Fuel (kWh/m 2 ) Electricity (kWh/m 2 ) Cost pa (2006) Best12635 £24,354 Good20047 £35,605 Typical24653 £42,078 Worst38758 £57,144

04-05 RESIDENCE ENERGY DATA (Fossil Fuel Heated)

04-05 RESIDENCE ENERGY DATA (Electrically Heated)

KEY INSTITUTIONAL MESSAGES ‘Win win’ opportunities are concentrated in the first few months of the process - need a high level champion The ‘intangible’ factor of teams who ‘get it’ and talk to each other is crucial Simple things done well beats grand gestures Empower the engineers and facilities staff Understand the real costs of decisions Commissioning and evaluation are vital

EARLY STAGE WIN-WIN BENEFITS Concept, orientation, layout Flexibility (enabling longer life and higher utilisation) ‘Right sizing’ services/eqt to needs Avoiding future infrastructure investment Budgeting for commissioning, evaluation etc.

KEY SECTOR MESSAGES Many individual institutions struggle to build and maintain relevant capacity - Harvard 20 specialists, 7 HPB Little structured evaluation and sharing of experience - BREEAM for (Higher) Education - Sustainable Laboratories initiative - AUDE establishing database