Annual Sustainability Statement 2009–2010 - Manchester

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Manchester Metropolitan University

Annual Sustainability Statement2009/2010

“Environmental sustainability is one of our key priorities. Protecting the environment is no longer optional - it is a duty shared by every university student and every member of staff.”Professor John BrooksVice Chancellor

It’s our goal to manage our activities and estate to deliver continued improvements in environmental performance through the adoption of key policies.

In 2010 we reviewed our existing university wide Environmental Sustainability Policy and defined 10 key areas of environmental sustainability. We’ve committed to improve our performance, set targets and indicated how we’ll go about reaching them over the coming years. In the following areas:

• Environmental Management Systems and Legislative Compliance

• Energy Management, Emissions and Discharges

• Sustainable Buildings

• Water Management

• Waste and Recycling Management

• Sustainable Procurement

• Travel Plan Management

• Sustainability in the Curriculum

• Communication

• Biodiversity

Environmental Policy Commitments & Targets

2 Annual Sustainability Statement 2009/2010

Headline Achievements• We’ve achieved the Carbon Trust Standard certification for all of

our operations which shows that we’ve successfully reduced our carbon emissions year on year

• We jumped up 30 places in the Green League 2010 to 27th, achieving a 2:1 classification

• We’ve produced a Carbon Management Plan which has been used as an exemplar of best practice across the public sector by the Carbon Trust

• We reused and recycled 16.8 tonnes of student’s unwanted items when they moved out of their halls of residence as part of our 2010 Zero Waste campaign

• We’ve lowered our carbon footprint by 5.6% since 2008-09

• We hosted the internationally acclaimed ‘Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature’ exhibition exploring the global issues of climate change, poverty, wildlife extinction and human rights

• Produced a nationally recognised and esteemed ‘green graffiti’ board as part of Go Green week 2010

• The percentage of staff travelling to work by car has decreased from 59% in 2007 to 44% in 2010. There’s also been a 15% reduction in Single Occupancy Vehicles from 2007 to 2010 across all campuses!

• We’ve achieved an 8.4% reduction in electricity consumed (equivalent to - £15,214 or 102 tonnes of carbon) within the halls of residence taking part in the Student Switch Off

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Professor Kevin Bonnett Chair of the Sustainability Investment Board Deputy Vice Chancellor – Student Experience

Universities have entered a period of unprecedented uncertainty, faced by an extremely challenging economic and policy environment. None of us in the sector can be certain what the next few years will bring in terms of student demand and consequent financial sustainability. Despite this, MMU remains in a strong position and we will not allow worries about the future of the sector to overshadow our real and demonstrable commitment to environmental responsibility; we remain determined to lead the sector in attaining a responsible, environmentally sustainable future for the University.

We continue to strive for all-round sustainability as we invest and build to save, not least through the work of our Sustainability Investment Board. This year’s report demonstrates once again the scale and speed of the progress we are making, along with the dynamism and creative commitment of our staff in achieving this progress. The results recorded here are a tribute not only to the tireless enthusiasm of our Facilities Environment Team, but also to the wider will for change across MMU. We are all determined to sustain this positive progress, however challenging the external circumstances.

Welcome

Dr John HindleyHead of Environmental Strategy

Welcome to our second Annual Sustainability Statement 2009-10, which is a collaborative record of the significant areas of progress and achievements the University has made in implementing its Environmental Strategy. It provides a comprehensive report of our performance regarding those areas identified as having significant impacts as set out in our revised Environmental Sustainability Policy 2010 over the period 2009-10.

Our report covers areas that reflect progress against our significant environmental impacts in the context of our commitments and management approach, reporting the highlights and outcomes of the objectives set in the last statement. For those interested in numbers!, our Key Performance Indicator Dashboard is set out in the rear of this statement, which shows the change from last year and from our baseline year (2007/8).

Before you begin to browse the report, I wanted to summarise the increasing expectation and legislative need to reduce our environmental impact. Over the next year, whilst the delayed implementation of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (Tax) will cost MMU £12 for every tonne of carbon it emits from gas and electricity (which is purported to rise to £30 by 2020), the sector is coming under increasing pressure to understand its wider environment impact.

MMU has worked hard and has captured the environmental impact of our energy emissions (achieving the Carbon Trust Standard for Real Carbon Reduction since 2006/7), however we will be expected to understand our wider environmental impact, linked to indirect emissions, by 2012. This will cover the goods and services we purchase (energy in manufacture), our waste emissions (transportation and landfill and recycling) and staff, student and business travel emissions (by mode of travel). Initial work and thoughts amongst the sector, indicate that carbon impact of these indirect emissions will be as big or bigger than the direct carbon footprint we have all established related to utilities, in effect doubling our carbon footprint.

This process will require MMU to understand and collect the emissions related to its supplies chains and in the next annual update we will report how this will be done. Related to the MMU Value for Money Strategy, the development of the sector wide methodology will give MMU the ability to not only capture this impact, but also the chance to develop and integrate training tools to assist in understanding the whole life cost related to energy, consumables and waste of the good or service.

By taking clear steps to reduce the environmental impacts of our business activities, we aim to create and establish a culture of change and increase the sustainability skills of our students and staff in this new economy.

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University Carbon emissions decrease by 5.3% – Congratulations! we’ve emitted 1284 tonnes less of carbon!

Key Objectives 2009-10Objective 1: Ensure compliance and continue to reduce exposure to the financial risk of environmental and climate change legislation.

There have been no major environmental non-conformities. To reduce risk, we’re implementing an accredited Environmental Management System (EMS) which will develop robust systems, records and processes.

Objective 2: Roll out Green Impact environmental accreditation scheme.

We’ve piloted the scheme successfully and over 370 members of staff across MMU campuses took part in 2009-10. See our ‘Green Impact’ case study!

Objective 3: Achieve bronze standard EcoCampus award.

We have made substantial progress and we’re well on course to achieve the bronze standard in 2010-11.


Environmental Management Systems and Legislative Compliance

Collaborating across Facilties. Facilities, Green Impact Team, Environment Team, Business Administration, Conference and Events, and MMU Placement Students.

Case Study: Green ImpactGreen Impact had a successful pilot year in 2009/10, and has been pivotal in delivering environmental management at the local level. In year one, 14 departmental teams participated in the scheme, encompassing over 370 members of staff across MMU.

Committed Green Impact team leaders organised their departments to improve the environmental performance, and facilitated the implementation of 270 environmental actions as a direct result of the project.

Following departmental audits, conducted by 15 trained volunteers, the achievements of all teams were celebrated at the first ever Green Impact awards ceremony. All teams made significant achievements, with 3 teams achieving the ‘working towards’ accreditation, 7 obtaining the Bronze award, 3 obtaining Silver and the overall winner (Accommodations Office) winning Gold.

The project has been an important tool for all ground level ‘Green Champions’ to encourage behaviour change among their colleagues, promoting a greater awareness of the day to day environmental impact of the department’s work.

As a voluntary project, teams have approached Green Impact with enthusiasm and creativity, with many continuing their initiatives created through the scheme, and looking for new opportunities to improve their performance in the future.

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Ensure compliance with all environmental legislation and maximise opportunities to deliver best practice.

Objective 2: Achieve bronze standard EcoCampus award.

Objective 3: Expand Green Impact participation and recruit at least 30 teams to take part in Green Impact year 2 with representation from all University campuses.

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Committed Green Impact team leaders organised their departments to improve the environmental performance, and facilitated the implementation of 270 environmental actions as a direct result of the project.

We’ve achieved the Carbon Trust Standard certification for all of our operations, reduced our carbon footprint by 5.3% over 3 years. This year we achieved a further 5.3% and achieved an additional £869,000 saving in utilities costs against budget

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Complete MMU Carbon Management Plan to include provision of 10 year carbon targets for the University and obtain senior management approval.

In July 2010, MMU’s Board of Governors approved our first Carbon Management Plan and ratified ambitious targets:

We’ve committed to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions from university buildings and our own vehicle fleet by:

• 35% (from the 2005/6 baseline) by 31st July 2016

With an additional stretch target of:

• 50% (from the 2005/6 baseline) by 31st July 2021

The Carbon Trust assessed the Carbon Management Plan as ‘good quality’, with one section being used as an exemplar of best practice across the public sector.

Objective 2: Achieve Carbon Trust Standard to reduce costs of the Carbon Reduction Commitment tax.

We’ve achieved the Carbon Trust Standard certification for all of our operations and reduced absolute carbon footprint by an average of 5.3% per year over 3 years.

We’ve appointed external consultants to ensure legislative compliance with the Carbon Reduction Commitment and to build capacity within the university to ensure continually improving future performance.

Objective 3: Continue to use the HEFCE Revolving Green Fund to deliver energy saving improvement projects across the estate and achieve improvement on current energy ratings.

We’ve invested over £250,000 (2009-10) into 47 Revolving Green Fund projects including more efficient lighting, heating controls in Halls of Residence, computer power down software and insulating boiler house pipes.

The projects will deliver annual savings of £90,000 with a payback of 4 years or less and save an estimated 580 tonnes of carbon per year.

Energy Management, Emissions and Discharges


The Carbon Trust assessed the Carbon Management Plan as ‘good quality’, with one section being used as an exemplar of best practice across the public sector.

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Deliver activities that support a continued reduction in the university’s carbon footprint and understand our wider environmental impact.

Objective 2: Publication of a concise reader friendly version of the Carbon Management Plan.

Objective 3: Secure funding and deliver a project to reduce the amount of energy wasted by the fume cupboards in our John Dalton Tower laboratories.

Objective 4: Identify and deliver environmental improvement projects in support of the Carbon Management Plan across the estate by continuing to use the HEFCE Revolving Green Fund.

Objective 5: Implement automated metering and live energy displays across the All Saints Campus.

Objective 6: Develop and improve energy data management, monitoring and targeting systems.

Objective 7: Identify and create a monitoring framework for discharges to air, land and water.

Case Study: PowerMan Project: Powering down our PCs!As part of our continuing efforts to reduce Carbon Footprint and operating costs, we’re introducing ‘PowerMan’ energy management software for our PCS throughout the estate during 2009, 10 and 11.

The software ensures that PCs are turned off at the end of the day and sent to standby when they’re idle. It’ll reduce electricity consumption and save around 281 tonnes of CO2, delivering annual savings of £47,000.

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Bold plansfor reducingemissions

35%from the 2005/6 baselineby 31 July 2016

MMU stops using oilin boilers and convertsto gas – a much lowercarbon fuel. 50%from the 2005/6 baseline

by 31 July 2021

The evidence that our climate is changing is undeniable and it’s clearthat if we fail to significantly reduce our carbon emissions theconsequences will be disastrous. The university sector is key tosuccessfully reducing carbon across the UK. Manchester MetropolitanUniversity is proud to be part of the Higher Education CarbonManagement Programme, which answers the Government’s call toreduce emissions.

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2005

Decision is taken toform an EnvironmentTeam and set MMU ona path to using naturalresources moreefficiently.

2006

Display EnergyCertificates createdfor all MMU buildings– see website forhow well yourbuilding performs.

2007

Manchester’s secondlargest solar panelarray installed onMMU roofs. The firstyear of Big StudentSwitch off seesstudents in hallsreduce electricityconsumption by 8.4%.Lawrence Buildingrefurbished to betwice as efficient.

2008

A £650K RevolvingGreen Fund createdto invest in energysaving projects – withthe savings used forfurther carbon savingmeasures. Allbuildings at Creweinsulated. GreenImpact launched withfirst staff Christmasenergy shutdown.

2009

Space Optimisationprogramme launchedwith reduced openingtimes for mostbuildings. PC powermanagement softwareinstalled on 6000computers. BuildingManagement Systeminstalled across Crewesite and new lightingin three buildings.New Exercise andSports Science centreopened at Crewe withsolar water heatingand rainwaterharvesting.

2010

Revolving Green Fundhoped to be recycling£10,000 per monthback into energysaving projects.Closure of the Alsagercampus with allactivity relocated toCrewe. NewBusiness Schoolcomplete enabling fitout in preparation forstaff and students tomove out of theAytoun campus in2012.

2011

New Art and Designbuilding opens withsolar thermal panelsand grey waterrecycling. Re-claddingof Chatham Towerand double glazedwindows will makethe building fourtimes more thermallyefficient.

2012

Eco-Campusenvironmentalmanagement systemin place across MMU.Electrical loadshedding planned forintroduction at timeswhen demand on thenational grid is high.

2013

Birley Fields Campuscomplete with thetarget of being ZeroCarbon, Zero Water,Zero Waste. MMUBirley FieldsCombined Heat andPower Energy Centreand District HeatingNetwork planned tocome online. Staffand students moveinto the new BirleyFields campus. TheDidsbury andElizabeth Gaskellcampuses are closed.

2014

Full review ofremaining estate andrelease of next phaseof MMU consolidationprocess. RevolvingGreen Fund will havedelivered 2000 tonnesof annual CO2savings.

2015

We’ve teamed up with The Carbon Trust to realise massive carbon and cost savings. MMU hasintroduced substantial measures to cut its emissions, and our Carbon Management Plan is allowingus to take stock of our current position, and effectively plan for a more sustainable future.

AmbitioustargetsManchester Metropolitan University will reduce emissions fromits buildings and vehicles by:

These are ambitious targets and they go beyond those set by HEFCE. But we’re determined to meet them.

MMU’s CO2reductionstory

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The average energy efficiency rating of our buildings has improved from a ‘D’ to a ‘C’ rating, overall we’ve seen a 9.5% energy efficiency improvement throughout our estate

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Continue to support the Capital Programme providing expertise on energy, carbon, water, waste and travel plan management.

We’ve provided environmental support and advice for a number of key capital developments including the new Birley Fields campus, Business School and Art and Design buildings. We have also developed a carbon foot printing tool to assess the energy impact of capital build options.

Objective 2: Continue to support the development and submission of funding applications for low/zero carbon technologies.

We successfully initiated and completed 47 carbon saving projects through the Revolving Green Fund and designed-in and utilised a number of progressive environmental technologies in retrofits and new builds.

Capital DevelopmentsAs part of our on-going commitment to consolidate our existing estate and improve the efficiency and environmental performance of our buildings, we’ve been working on a number of developments. These utilise new and innovative environmental technologies so that we’re at the forefront of green buildings design in the North West region.

Art and Design Building:The Faculty of Art & Design has been granted a £35m budget for an extensive reorganisation of its estate. This exciting new development will take place over the next two years for completion in 2012.

Key Statistics:

Size of Building: 7500m²

Forecast Completion Date: September 2012

Key Environmental Technologies proposed:

• Evaporative cooling system

• Rainwater harvesting

• Grey water system

• High efficiency boiler system

• Rooftop and courtyard

• Forecast Energy rating: Target A

Forecast BREEAM Rating: Excellent

Exercise and Sports Science:Key statistics:

Size of Building: 3902m²

Completion Date: September 2010 (complete)

Key Environmental Technologies Used:

• Solar thermal hot water installation

• Rain waste harvesting systems

• Forecast Energy rating: B Unconfirmed

Forecast BREEAM Rating: Very Good

Sustainable & Healthy Buildings


Birley Fields:We’re working to create a new community campus at Birley Fields in Hulme and plan to relocate MMU’s Faculties of Education and Health.

Key statistics:

Size of building: 20,500m²

Completion date: September 2014

Key Environmental Technologies proposed:

• Central Energy Generation Plant – Combined Cooling Heating and Power (CCHP)

• District Heating Scheme (serving all campus buildings)

• Wind assisted natural ventilation system

• Extensive photo-voltaic panel installation (PV)

• Maximum design use of natural daylight

• Rainwater harvesting and water collection recycling system (Grey Water System)

• Borehole potable water system (drinking water system)

• Extensive use of LED lighting

• Forecast Energy rating: Target A

Forecast BREEAM Rating: Excellent/ Outstanding

MMUBS & Student Hub:The project will relocate the Business School from the Aytoun Campus in the city centre to the All Saints Campus and provide a Student Hub on land formerly occupied by the Loxford Tower and the former St Augustines school.

Key statistics:

Size of Building: 24,500m²

Forecast Completion Date: October 2011

Key Environmental Technologies Used:

• Under floor heating/cooling using borehole water from below the site via a ground source heat pump

• Abstraction of grey water from ground source system

• Extensive rooftop Photo voltaic panel installation

• Atria design to maximise natural ventilation and daylight distribution Forecast Energy rating: Design assessed B

Forecast BREEAM Rating: Excellent

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Deliver the capital programme.

Objective 2: Develop District Heating Network Options.

Objective 3: Develop Photo-Voltaic options at MMU Business School and other sites.

Objective 4: Continue to invest in estate wide retrofit projects to improve the environmental performance of our buildings.

Objective 5: Continue to achieve improvements on current energy ratings of buildings.

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We’ve installed rainwater harvesting systems which collect rainwater from the roof area at our new Exercise and Sports Science building in Crewe. The system supplies rainwater to the WC and urinal flushing cisterns saving around 881 m3 of water, equivalent to £2060 per year!

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Develop Water Conservation policy and further reduce the water consumption and relative cost burden by ensuring robust detail within new building design and retrofit applications.

Ambitious water conservation targets have been set for the new Birley Fields Campus, such as 75% less water consumption compared to similar existing buildings.

In order to meet these targets the buildings will be equipped with water saving toilets and taps, will recycle rainwater to flush toilets, extract water from an onsite aquifer for drinking and reduce the amount of storm water leaving site with an array of sustainable urban drainage solutions.

Objective 2: Submit business case and implement green roof retrofit project for Mabel Tylecote building.

We’ve secured funding to give the roof on our All Saints building a green makeover, installing two green roofs. These will accompany the existing photovoltaic array and make the building one of the most sustainable in Manchester city centre.

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Develop water conservation and bottled water policies.

Objective 2: Set water conservation targets to reduce consumption.

Objective 3: Work with an MMU Masters student to conduct stage one of a university wide water audit.

Objective 4: Complete All Saints Green Roof Project.

Objective 5: Review surface water and highways drainage charges.

Water Management


Case Study: Manchester Green RoofsTwo green roofs are planned for installation at our All Saints building. This, along with the building’s solar panels will make All Saints one of the most sustainable buildings in Manchester city centre. The project commences in February 2011 and is due for completion in March 2011.

The green roofs will provide many benefits:

• Reduce the amount of heat lost from the building which can mean lower energy bills in winter;

• Reflect heat from the sun which can help to stop the inside of the building’s upper floor from getting too hot on a summers day and therefore reduce the need for air conditioning;

• Protect a building’s roof from damage caused by rain and UV light;

• Capture rainwater which collectively with other green roofs, trees and grass can help to reduce flash flooding at ground level;

• Trap harmful pollutants from car and bus emissions;

• Provide important habitats for city centre wildlife.

The roofs installed on the All Saints building will cover an area of approximately 715m2 and will be planted with a sedum and wildflower mix. The sedum genus contains around 400 species of leaf succulents which are particularly good at storing water while the wildflowers will provide a splash of seasonal colour and will attract a range of insects.

Once the green roofs have been installed, we’ll monitor them to see how they affect the buildings efficiency with regards to energy loss and water retention.

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We’ve stabilised contract waste management costs from a 17.9% increase (2008/9) to less than 1% increase (2009/10)

We’ve diverted over 16.8 tonnes of waste from landfill by reusing and recycling student’s unwanted items in our Zero Waste campaign

We’ve diverted over 213 tonnes of waste from landfill by recycling our paper, card, plastic, can and glass wastes!

We’ve improved our recycling rate by over 11% in 2009-10 and now recycle 29.4% of the waste we produce!

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Finalise waste audit and produce business case for the investment and implementation of internal recycling requirements to reduce waste to landfill costs.

We’ve completed a business case for internal and external recycling facilities, approved a 6 year waste strategy and carried out a University wide waste audit.

Objective 2: Set targets for increased recycling against business as usual costs.

We’ve set out waste and recycling targets in our Environmental Sustainability Policy 2010, and outlined the key financial and environmental savings against business as usual costs in our waste strategy.

Objective 3: Implement paper reduction action plan.

A Paper Action Team (PAT) has been formed and will support the implementation of a consolidated printing strategy. Representation on this group has allowed the discussion of several easy actions that can be taken to reduce paper usage and unnecessary printing including the use of mobile devices and netbooks.

Waste Management


Zero Waste volunteers collect unwanted bedding items from halls of residence

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Reduce waste to landfill by securing funding for internal and external recycling facilities and roll-out recycling hubs .

Objective 2: Progress with the implementation of an MMU wide paper reduction plan.

Objective 3: Align the recycling strategy and implementation plan with our networked printing consolidation strategy, ‘MMU Print’.

Objective 4: Develop a comprehensive waste strategy that provides a supportive framework to minimise construction waste and ensures excellent recycling rates through robust Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP).

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We’ve diverted over 213 tonnes of waste from landfill by recycling our paper, card, plastic, can and glass wastes! We’ve improved our recycling rate by over 11% in 2009-10 and now recycle 29.4% of the waste we produce!

We’ve achieved additional £869,000 saving in utilities costs

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Carry out audit of sustainable procurement and develop action plan.

We’ve formed a ‘Sustainable Procurement and value for money working group’ to ensure that whole life costing and environmental impacts are considered in all of our buying decisions.

Objective 2: Develop Sustainable Procurement Policy for Birley Fields Campus.

Our aspirations are to achieve a zero carbon, waste and water campus and consideration of sustainable procurement in all buying decisions

Objective 3: Procure new waste and gas contracts at best value.

We’ve procured a new waste contract and factored pay by weight, emissions related reporting tools and further materials recovery facilities into the tender specification.

We have also developed and agreed a flexible procurement route for our electricty and gas contracts.

Sustainable Procurement


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2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Undertake a comprehensive review of Facilities contracts and develop a sustainable procurement plan.

Objective 2: Provide a framework for the measurement of Scope 3 carbon emissions capture in order to realise a baseline and set targets.

Objective 3: Develop a sustainable procurement policy in 2011.

Objective 4: Provide training for university purchasers to increase their awareness of the environmental impacts of purchasing decisions, and their whole life cost.

Objective 5: Incorporate environmentally-weighted questions in the tendering process of all contracts.

Our carbon emissions from business travel have decreased by 13.3% in 2009-10 and we’ve jointly hosted 12 cycle to work days and an annual cycle to work event

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Introduce salary sacrifice benefit for annual bus tickets for staff and raise awareness of travel benefits.

Unfortunately, this has not been possible due to changes in HMRC guidelines. However, we’ve had over 100 staff memebers benefit from the cycle to work scheme, gaining discounts on new bikes and accessories.

Objective 2: Assist Capital Programme in the development of robust, quality, achievable Travel Plans for Crewe & Birley Fields.

We’ve developed travel plans and are currently reviewing them in light of the staff and student travel survey data obtained from surveys in 2010.

Objective 3: Carry out staff/student travel survey.

The staff survey was the most successful survey to date with a 43% response rate. We’ve seen a 15% reduction in Single Occupancy Vehicles from 2007 to 2010 across all campuses.

Objective 4: Improve car parking permit allocation system.

We developed, tested and implemented a new on-line permit application system for staff and students. We’ve encountered significant reductions in appeals, reduced paper based communications and built in vehicles emission options for staff vehicles to help us baseline our scope 3 emissions.

Objective 5: Work with Manchester Corridor Partnership to implement cross-city bus package project and associated infrastructure improvements.

We’ve reviewed and provided a report on transportation and highways issues directly effecting MMU’s estate. This bid will be resubmitted to the local sustainable transport fund by December 2011.

Objective 6: Re-launch car sharing initiative.

We’ve ensured our on-line permit application system allows staff members to nominate a car share partner and have promoted the scheme to all staff and students.

Objective 7: Carry out feasibility study on the viability of running the University vehicle fleet on bio-fuel.

We’ve supported an MMU student Masters Research project into the feasibility of reprocessing waste vegetable oil into bio-fuel to be used within the university’s fleet. The study proved that small and large scale productions of bio-fuel are economically viable.

Travel Plan Management


2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Effectively manage future car parking resources and review car parking revenue models with reference to new charging structures and parking allocations for contracted suppliers and students at Crewe.

Objective 2: Set Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV) targets for MMU Crewe and Manchester sites.

Objective 3: Provide continued assistance in the development of sustainable transport assessment for Birley Fields.

Objective 4: Trial a car share priority bay scheme for staff and students.

Objective 5: Further develop potential bio-fuel project to use waste oil in our fleet.

Objective 6: Trial a car club scheme at All Saints, Didsbury and Elizabeth Gaskell campuses to lower business travel related emissions through pay as you go pooling cars.

Objective 7: Develop a travel plan marketing campaign in line with MMU sustainability identity.

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The staff survey was the most successful survey to date with a 43% response rate. We’ve seen a 15% reduction in Single Occupancy Vehicles from 2007 to 2010 across all campuses.

The reorganisation of Level 4 curricula in response to the EQAL proposals means that all EQAL units now have learning outcomes that are mapped onto two key sustainability outcomes:

This process has firmly established that knowledge and skills enabling our graduates to live and work to promote more sustainable development are key employability outcomes.

Two related modules are to be available to all staff and students as part of the new Employability Skills Online being developed by the Centre for Learning and Teaching: ‘Understanding sustainability’ and ‘What can I do about climate change?’ This will included resources for students to study on-line, with additional resources f tutors who want to use these modules as part of classroom based activities in core units.

‘Understanding sustainability’ has been trialled with over 1000 students at Level 3 (foundation) as part of the core unit Academic Methods.

‘What can I do about climate change?’ has been trialled with over 700 students on the Level 4 Combined Honours programme who take the core unit ‘Professional Practice and Employability’.

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Expand Membership of Curriculum for Sustainable Living group (C4SL) and produce action plan.

The C4SL group has expanded its membership and now has representation from key Faculties across MMU. New members include:

• Manchester School of Architecture;

• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies;

• School of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences; Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care.

Objective 2: Develop Strategic Framework for Curriculum Group with specific targets for activity and engagement.

The newly formed C4SL group will reconvene and develop a specific framework with targets for activity and engagement.

Objective 3: Provide a review of evidence for sustainability in the curriculum and materials developed to take opportunities for revenue generation potential e.g. development of training for community facilitators for carbon literacy.

The review of evidence for sustainability in the curriculum is currently underway. It’s being achieved in a number of ways, including scrutiny of course documentation, interviews with relevant staff and student surveys.

Development of relevant training for community facilitators is underway, in conjunction with the Manchester Climate Change Call to Action.

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2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Audit and develop indicators that show the extent of sustainability aspects within the curriculum.

Objective 2: Enhance our student retention and experience to improve employability prospects by providing vocational opportunities for undergraduate placement students to develop practical sustainability skills for business and the wider community.

Objective 3: Assist and encourage course teams to integrate environmental sustainability into the core curriculum wherever possible, and give students access to university-wide option/elective units on sustainability.


We hosted the internationally acclaimed ‘Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature’ exhibition, a campaign for realistic solutions to the interlinked problems of climate change, poverty, the wasteful use of resources, population expansion, habitat destruction and species loss.

Key Objectives 2009-10:Objective 1: Develop Communications Framework to enhance promotion of environmental sustainability across the university.

We’ve worked with internal and external partners to develop a robust communications framework. We’ve created a distinct visual identity for sustainability across MMU- ‘Let’s make a sustainable planet’.

Objective 2: Sign up to 10:10 Carbon Reduction Commitment.

We signed up to the national 10:10 campaign and committed to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. Reductions will be reported in 2011; we’re well on our way and saw university wide reductions of 5.6% for this reporting period.

Objective 3: Develop network of departmental champions linked to Green Impact.

14 departments (over 370 members of staff) across MMU participated in Green Impact. This lead to the identification of a number of

departmental team ‘champions’ , and who will act as a good base from which to expand our green champions network during the 2010-11 Green Impact scheme.

Objective 4: Expand portfolio of staff engagement and support activities.

We’ve worked with and held a number of events and campaigns for staff and students ranging from national cycle to work days to staff induction sessions, integrating environmental awareness training into staff development programmes, supporting students in ‘Green Week’ and hosting an internationally acclaimed exhibition.

Objective 5: Provide support and information to address the carbon abatement opportunities within the Manchester Corridor.

We’ve been an integral and proactive part of Manchester Corridor low carbon strategy group providing knowledge and practical experience into energy efficiency and carbon reduction.

Communication

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: Use our sustainability identity to increase the effectiveness and diversity of environmental communication across MMU to promote engagement and cultural change.

Objective 2: Continue to run ‘Student Switch Off’ at our halls of residence, expand the number of residences participating in the campaign and improve upon our energy savings.

Objective 3: Develop and expand staff and student environmental awareness and training opportunities.

We signed up to the national 10:10 campaign and committed to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. Reductions will be reported in 2011; we’re well on our way and saw university wide reductions of 5.6% for this reporting period.

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Biodiversity is a new distinct area of our Environmental Policy to formally recognise the duty placed on MMU through the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act.

The duty aims to raise the profile and visibility of biodiversity, clarify existing commitments and to make it a natural and integral part of policy and decision making within MMU.

We’ve set a number of key objectives for 2010-11 to ensure the that the university protects and enhances biodiversity, seeking opportunities to increase and improve habitat diversity, encourage local wildlife and habitat linkages across our managed estate and new development sites.

Biodiversity

2010-11 ObjectivesObjective 1: To protect and enhance biodiversity and use landscape redevelopment opportunities to create local wildlife habitat by 2015.

Objective 2: Ensure that the development of landscape design within the capital development programme takes full account of our biodiversity policy.

Objective 3: Support opportunities for the local community to feed in biodiversity expertise into the capital design programme.

Objective 4: Complete the All Saints ‘Green Roof’ project to enhance opportunities for local wildlife and support post and undergraduate research projects on green roof retrofit and biodiversity.

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The duty aims to raise the profile and visibility of biodiversity, clarify existing commitments and to make it a natural and integral part of policy and decision making within MMU.

MMU Sustainability Metrics

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The University

University Built Estate

EMS Area m2 288,979 290,327 272,704 -6.1% -5.6%

University Staff FTE EMS Full Time Equivalent 3287 3280 3206 -2.3% -2.5%

University Students EMS Full Time Equivalent 28,465 29,654 29,740 0.3% 4.5%

Green League position

EMS Position in League (th) 67 57 27 -30.0 -40.0

Our Carbon Footprint

University Carbon Footprint

EMS Tonnes CO2 25,063 24,410 23,126

Carbon Savings Delivered to Date

EMS Tonnes CO2 Baseline Year 652.07 1,936.26 -1,284.2 -1,936.3

Current 4 year Carbon Reduction Target (2013)

EMS % Baseline Year 35%

Carbon Emissions Change from Previous Year

EMS % Baseline Year -2.6% -5.3% -5.3% -7.7%

Carbon Emissions per Area of Estate

ENE Tonnes CO2 m-2 0.083 0.080 0.085 6.0% 2.7%

Carbon Emissions per Student

ENE Tonnes CO2 Student-1 0.880 0.823 0.778 -5.5% -11.7%

Our Financial Investment in Sustainability

Amount Invested in Specific Carbon Reduction Projects

EMS £ £153,636 £648,875 £248,665

Financial Savings Delivered from Carbon Reduction Projects

EMS £ Baseline Year £23,750 £89,928

Our Utility Use

Carbon Emissions by Fuel

ENE GAS Tonnes CO2 8,426 8,791 8,016 -8.8% -4.9%

ENE ELECTRICITY Tonnes CO3

15,440 14,433 14,064 -2.6% -8.9%

Use by Utility ENE GAS kWh 41,271,070 42,762,814 38,993,538 -8.8% -5.5%

ENE ELECTRICITY kWh 28,326,004 26,472,722 25,794,395 -2.6% -8.9%

WAT WATER m3 178,817 216,579 214,123 -1.1% 19.7%

Spend by Utility ENE GAS £ £965,411.69 £1,170,123.00 £902,192.38 -22.9% -6.5%

ENE ELECTRICITY £ £2,344,896.70 £3,071,789.00 £2,645,459.33 -13.9% 12.8%

WAT WATER £ £579,701.34 £701,311.00 £643,272.33 -8.3% 11.0%

Utility Cost Efficiency ENE GAS £m-2 £3.34 £4.03 £3.31 -17.9% -1.0%

ENE ELECTRICITY £m-2 £8.11 £10.58 £9.70 -8.3% 19.6%

WAT WATER £m-2 £2.01 £2.42 £2.36 -2.3% 17.6%





Previous Yr

Overall Change on

Baseline Yr

Our Building Energy & Environmental Efficiency

Display Energy Certificate Scores Proportion of Estate

ENE % A

ENE % B 1 2 3 1 2

ENE % C 46 50 60 10 14

ENE % D 30 29 19 -10 -11

ENE % E 15 5 5 0 -10

ENE % F 8 14 13 -1 5

ENE % G 0 0 0 0 0

Number of Registered Building Certificates

ENE Number 109 90 67 -23 -42

Average Energy Rating

ENE Mean score Upper ‘D’ (76 - 100) 84

Upper ‘D’ (76 - 100) 82.5

Lower C’ (51-75) 74.5

-8.0 -9.5

BREEAM Rating of all New Buildings/Refurbishment (since 2008)

SB Axis Arts Centre, Crewe (2009)

N/A Not registered

Name, Completion Date and rating

SB JD Engineering Workshops (2010)

Very Good Rating not finalised

SB JD IRM Extension (2010)


SB Exercise and Sports Science, Crewe (2010)


Our Waste Streams

Contract Waste Costs WM £ £230,736 £272,072 £273,998 £1,926 £43,262

Contract Waste to Landfill

WM Tonnes 2019.25 2029.50 1815.57 -213.9 -203.7

Recyclate WM Tonnes 227.62 355.32 533.40 178.1 305.8

Recycling Rate WM % 11.27% 17.51% 29.38% 11.9% 18.1%

Confidential Waste WM Tonnes N/A 24.60 60.89 36.3

Paper & Card WM Tonnes N/A 42.61 282.24 239.6

Glass, Plastic, Tin WM Tonnes N/A 104.34 63.29 -41.1

Zero Waste Scheme WM Tonnes 2.45 10.98 16.82 5.8 14.4

Hazardous Waste WM Tonnes N/A 4.45 4.27 -0.2

Asbestos WM Tonnes 9.00 14.50 23.14 8.6 14.1

White Goods WM Tonnes N/A 1.27 0.92 -0.4

IT Equipment WM Tonnes N/A 8.88 9.64 0.8

Catering Oil WM Litres 2830.00 4390.00 5258.00 868.0 2428.0

Construction Waste TOTAL

WM Tonnes N/A 7398.18 11726.00 4327.8

Construction Waste Recycled or Reused

WM Tonnes N/A 5155.01 11620.00 6465.0

Construction Waste Landfill

WM Tonnes N/A 219.17 106.00 -113.2

Construction Waste Recyclate Rate

WM % N/A 69.68% 99.10% 42.2%

KPI Dashboard 2009-10 29




Previous Yr

Overall Change on

Baseline Yr

Our Travel

Sustainable Travel Loans to staff

TRA Number 174 254 237 -17.0 63

Business Travel Carbon Emissions

TRA Tonnes CO2 1,196.0 1,185.8 1,046.4 -11.8% -12.5%

Business Travel Miles per Employee by Mode (Air, Rail, Train, Bus, Car)

TRA Air km / Employee 1,420.8 1,515.2 1,361.2 -10.2% -4.2%

TRA Rail km / Employee 905.4 655.5 672.9 2.7% -25.7%

TRA Car km / Employee 380.5 376.2 333.4 -11.4% -12.4%

TRA Taxi km / Employee 10.7 15.1 8.5 -43.7% -20.5%

TRA Tube km / Employee 2.2 2.0 1.3 -34.3% -39.4%

TRA Bus km / Employee 2.2 2.5 1.7 -32.8% -21.9%

TRA Tram km / Employee 2.1 0.5 0.1 -90.4% -97.6%

MMU Fleet Vehicle Emissions

TRA Tonnes CO2 47.0 39.3 30.1 -23.4% -35.9%

Our Procurement

Contracts Tendered through Sustainable Procurement Route with Environmental Weighted Criteria

PROC Number Environ-mental

Weighted Criteria yet

to be established

Paper for Printing & Photocopying (all paper products)

PROC Kg 192,032.0 201,660.0 290,777.9 89117.9 98745.9

Fairtrade Products Sold (£ revenue)

PROC £ £238,553.87 £233,934.91 N/A No Data

Our Communication

Number of departments (or employees) engaging with green initiatives within the workplace

COM Number − − 14 14 14

Sustainability Project Initiatives Implemented (Number of Projects Events, Seminars or Activities)

COM Number 0 13 32 19 32


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