Date: Tuesday 29 November 2011

Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Venue: De Montfort University

City: Leicester

Workshop summary

There is much discussion of the opportunities to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to both improve the efficiency and effectiveness of university and college estates, and to reduce the costs, energy consumption and carbon emissions of buildings. The realisation of these opportunities involves:

• Better inter-connection and optimisation of existing building control systems, e.g. BMS with CCTV, fire, laboratory ventilation control and other systems;
• Interfacing BMS and other building systems with other institutional systems, e.g. data centre management, timetabling;
• Better inter-connection and optimisation of operational estates management systems, e.g. condition appraisals, financial project management, job management, and performance management;
• Better recording and inter-connection of Estates strategic management information, e.g. Autocad and drawing databases, condition appraisals, historic information such as leases, legislative compliance and terriers.

However, achieving these objectives is often difficult in practice. This workshop has therefore been organised in collaboration with the Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) with the aims of:

• Identifying current opportunities and barriers, and means of overcoming them;
• Building links between Estates and ICT practitioners, with the aim of stimulating subsequent technical actions on areas such as interfaces and standards.

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Programme

Time 

Activity 

10.00 – 10.30 
Registration and refreshments

10.30 – 10.50 
Introduction
Rob Bristow, Green ICT Programme Manager, JISC Peter James, Director, SusteIT

10.50 – 11.25 
Opportunities and Issues: Director of Estates’ Perspective
Derry Caleb, Director of Estates, University of Surrey and AUDE President

11.25 – 12.00 
Opportunities and Issues: Estates IT User’s Perspective
Speaker tbc

12.00 – 12.35 
Opportunities and Issues: Estates IT Expert Perspective
Speaker tbc

12.35 – 13.40
Lunch and Demonstration of DMU Intelligent Building Work

13.40 – 14.15
Solutions: Software Developer’s Perspective
Mahendra Mahey, Project Manager, JISC-funded Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) project, UKOLN

14.15 – 14.50
Solutions: Commercial Perspective
Speaker tbc

14.50 – 15.10
Refreshments

15.10 – 16.00
Groups/Plenary Discussion – Next Steps for Institutions and JISC

16.00 (approx)

End of Event

The event is being funded by JISC, and has been organised by two JISC Green IT projects – DELTA at the University of Bradford and RECSO (Responsible Energy Costs, led by Forum for the Future). Both are associated with the SusteIT initiative.