Arup supports Queen Mary, University of London to achieve carbon targets.
Through a process of engineering, financial and risk analysis, Arup has determined which carbon reduction options would provide the greatest overall benefit in achieving a 34% carbon reduction target at three Queen Mary campus sites in London.
Arup’s design, consulting and planning engineers worked with the university Estates Department to assess the estate, identify and evaluate carbon reduction options, and integrate them into a carbon reduction strategy for the Mile End, Whitechapel and Charterhouse Square campuses. As well as satisfying the requirements of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Arup report enabled the Estates Department to gain the internal approvals necessary to secure the estimated £7m of capital funding to deliver the first phase of implementation to 2015.
The detailed implementation plan - carried out over six weeks earlier this year - includes a building upgrade plan, renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
Arup’s AssetMAP software tool provides a quick and efficient means of analysing retrofit opportunities both for individual buildings and for portfolios; this was key to delivering the analysis work for Queen Mary in a very challenging timescale.
AssetMAP identifies how a client’s buildings can better support its business objectives. The process integrates architecture and engineering with financial and risk analysis to develop high-level estate strategies, as well as identifying the tactical technical interventions that make up an implementation plan. It has been designed to offer a fast, transparent and rigorous approach to estates reconfiguration.
“Achieving the government target of 34% carbon reduction is a challenge that we can only achieve by putting carbon governance at the heart of the University’s processes. For us, AssetMAP has been an extremely useful tool, providing the university with the capacity to develop an effective carbon management plan across several buildings incorporating offices, labs and libraries.
- Rebecca Maiden, Head of Energy and Environment, Queen Mary, University of London
“We originally developed AssetMAP for commercial office buildings but are now actively working with education and healthcare stakeholders to make sure their portfolios of buildings support their current and future service strategies and provide long term value that goes significantly beyond short term cost savings. We are also undertaking a number of AssetMAP assessments with clients in Europe and the Middle East.
- Chris Jofeh, Arup UKMEA and European retrofit leader