To achieve sustainable design, material selection, and construction are no different to those required to achieve any other aspect of good design. The process relies on an understanding of the potential environmental issues, to compliment and contextualise what is already known among these professional experts.
Sustainable construction has straightforward aims: to minimise waste on and off site; reuse materials and make use of those reused or recycled; avoid complex components that are difficult to recycle at end of life; and choose construction systems that can be delivered by local operatives by existing or new skill sets.
Design is a holistic process that seeks to create the best solution across a broad range of requirements, which includes social and economic sustainability as well as environmental responsibility. A good designer will always look first at exploiting the opportunities of the site and the client's brief to produce a building which, as far as possible, works passively to minimise energy and resource use. The next step is to incorporate technologies for minimising resource demand that are appropriate to the site, the building occupants’ needs and their capacity to manage and operate them. Also, designing to enable future change of use, easy maintenance, and eventual disassembly and reuse will lengthen the lifespan of a building and minimise its overall impact.
EAUC-Scotland's Sustainable Construction Topic Support Network (TSN) is open to all, providing an opportunity for those working in or with the further and higher education sector to share ideas and questions and to get together to hear from particular speakers or discuss topics of interest.
A guide to enable you to undertake a walk-through survey, to help identify ways to improve your organisation's energy efficiency
Energy efficiency and carbon saving advice for the further and higher education sector.
Presentation from the Sustainable Campus Excellence Awards 2015, University of British Columbia.
A computer room used by the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge had its aging air conditioning system replaced with two Cool-phase systems
The first Cool-phase New Generation install was at Avondale Park Primary School on August 20th 2013
Monodraught’s Cool-phase systems in the Science Lecture Room at Bournemouth University provide intelligently controlled low energy ventilation and natural cooling
One new COOL-PHASE unit has been installed in the ICT Room at Alderman Knight School to provide natural cooling within the area.
In partnership with the Department for Education and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Salix is launching a research pilot project for a limited amount of...
The Matter of Landscape: Sustainable design strategies for RMIT City Campus A series of complimentary project-based teaching and learning initiatives across the RMIT...
Legal update for EAUC Members (June 2015).
North Hertfordshire College approached d+b facades with regard to cladding an old 1960’s building. From the first contact to completion they worked with the...
The University of West London has invested £50 million to improve students' learning and social experience as part of Future Campus, an environmentally sustainable...
The University of Reading £250,000 energy efficiency overhaul of fume cupboards in 2 large teaching laboratories is achieving substantial savings of £90,500 and 343...
This is one of the UK’s first University Training Schools (UTS) which is being developed in partnership between the DfE and the University of Birmingham allowing teachers...
This new build facility houses specialist research into plant science and food security and incorporates greenhouse, laboratories, preparation rooms, office accommodation and...
The Julian Study Centre (JSC) has raised the bar for sustainability on a campus which has a reputation for energy efficient award winning buildings, and is the first aiming for...
The Enterprise Centre (TEC) will be the UK’s greenest commercial building, targeting both BREEAM Outstanding and Passivhaus Certification. At £13.4m and with 3,400m2...
These are the member responses on carbon targets sent to EAUC Members in December 2014.
The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) is housed in a £10.5million refurbishment of an 18th Century Old Royal High School at the University of Edinburgh....
The redevelopment of Durham Business School demonstrates how embracing sustainable technologies within existing buildings can deliver value, improve environmental performance...
Peninsula Library – The Zero-Net-Carbon Challenge The Monash University peninsula library upgrade is a challenge we have undertaken to retrofit an existing university...
Refrigeration and Lighting Retrofit This year WSI made further energy savings with two large retrofit projects. One being a large scale internal and external lighting...
Our Sustainable Construction TSN Group visited Glasgow School of Art on 29th April 2015 for a tour of the Mackintosh Building and discussions on the low carbon...
The Green Gown Awards Australasia Winners’ summary 2014 provides a summary of the projects recognised by this year's Awards, the International Awards and the ACTS...
The refurbishment of Nescot College included the addition of a dramatic raked gable end
View the photographs taken at "Challenging Connections" Annual Conference 2015.
We wanted to get some useful sustainable business tops tips from each of our 2015 EAUC Annual Conference sponsors - these are the tips from Salix.
A case study from British Gas about how BMSI has helped the fast-growing University of Brighton to reduce costs and improve control.
A blog post by Will Jenkins, Carbon Credentials about the Role of Tertiary Education in the Transition to Sustainable Cities
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how the University of Brighton has adopted sustainability as one of its core goals, as reflected in the institution’s Strategic Plan.
This presentation is the final Keynote from day one of the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by Leeds City Council, ASDA and...
This presentation was the Keynote for the Further Education Summit, part of the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by Leeds College of...
This presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by University of Leeds and falls under the Leadership and Governance...
The EAUC Annual Conference 2015 programme in full!
This presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by BRE Global and falls under the Estates and Operations Stream.
This TSN was organised in association with The Academy of Hair, Beauty, Sport & Fitness at Fife College, and hosted at their Halbeath Campus in Dunfermline on the...
The survey and accompanying report, which is based on the views of internal and external facilities managers (FMs), says 60% of respondents believe their organisation is...
The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) Sustainability Survey, now in its seventh year, provides a barometer on the facilities management (FM) sector’s...
The aim of the proposed amendment was to embed in the Scottish Building Regulations a requirement for the sustainability labelling of new buildings.
Plymouth University present their 2014 Sustainability Report.
AUDE's winter 2015 issue includes new £50m state-of-the-art building goes ahead at UWE and first zero carbon Business School in the UK to open at Essex.
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how South West College continues to grow with an ever-evolving sustainability movement across campuses in Cookstown, Dungannon, Enniskillen...
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how Southampton Solent University is working ever harder to achieve the emission reduction targets set in its Carbon Management Plan.
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how d+b facades UK are transforming the estate through innovative design and builds.
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
With the Bridging the Centuries Project JPA Furniture helped Pembroke College Oxford achieve their aim to create an inspirational and impressive venue
University of London present their 2014 Annual Sustainability Report
This is the fourth in a series from Bill Mollison's "Global Garden", centered around urban life.
This case study focuses on Managing Facilities and Estates following research in 2014 into the way the FE sector in Wales is embracing the concept of sustainable development
The 2014 Green Gown Awards Winners’ Brochure which explores the journeys all these institutions have taken.