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SFC’s Developing Capital & Climate Change
Strategy
24 September 2014
Martin Kirkwood, SFC
Capital & Climate Change Strategy
4 elements to it:
• Working with both FE & HE sectors to help them
meet targets required under the legislation
• Promoting environmental sustainability on campus
and in the curriculum
• Investing in low/zero carbon estate
• Driving research and innovation in low carbon
industries
College Estates statistics (2012-13)
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Number of sites: 139
Number of buildings: 337
Gross internal area (sq m): 802,904
Value of estate: £1,030,320,836
Maintenance costs: £20,741,790
Energy consumption: £41,020,923
Annual report to Council
• SFC’s response to its public body duties:
• SFC policy & institutional sustainable
development activities
• Carbon reduction in the sectors
• Carbon reduction at SFC
• 2010-12: sectoral power consumption as proxy for
emissions data
Estimated College Emissions 2010 - 2012
• Non-residential gas & oil
consumption down 20%
• Electricity use up 7%
But:
Based on returns from
only 1/3 of colleges
Estimated college and university emissions 2010-12
Main sources for both
sectors are electricity, and
non-residential gas & oil
Carbon Reporting
• Estimated data for last 3 years, standardised reports from 2013
• Overall sector footprint not decreasing to target
• Ongoing technical Issues e.g. carbon conversion factors (re-visit
historical emissions/re-baseline?); addition of scope 3
emissions
• Urgent need to re-baseline college footprints
• ‘What gets measured, gets managed.’
What doesn’t get measured
doesn’t get managed.
…What can't be measured isn't worth
managing?
‘It is better to pick the wrong priority
than none at all.’ (P. Drucker)
Corporate reporting
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Should reflect your objectives and aspirations
Every institution is different; what do you all have in
common?
Reporting solely for external purposes does not drive
change internally; what’s the link to internal governance?
Good indicators can drive useful actions and behaviours
New SFC Capital & Climate Change Team
• Estates data collection & analysis
• Commissioning estates condition
surveys
• Management of existing NPD
projects
• Developing new capital funding
programmes & guidance
• Ensuring new projects are
exemplars in carbon reduction
and sustainability