DEAKIN UNIVERSITY LEADERS IN HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY DATA COLLECTION UPGRADE HELPS SAVE THE OUTCOME THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AT KEY COMMUNITY FACILITIES Since the implementation of the tool, Deakin University has been able to establish an emissions baseline from which they have developed a detailed Leisurelink Aquatic Centre and Corio University uses these supplies. region and make all of Council’s Library will significantly improve their buildings more sustainable. This system is now single source Deakin’s energy efficiency thanks to upgrades of truth for sustainability metrics and to heating and cooling systems. allows the Sustainability and Facilities With funding assistance from teams to monitor the performance of the Sustainability Victoria, the City has built environment. undertaken a $340,000 project to upgrade the chillers at Corio Library Carbon Management Strategy. Deakin is the first university and Anakie Road depot as well as Engagement with sustainability in Australia to use Kinesis the boiler (pool heater) at Leisurelink data has increased significantly software, an integrated data Aquatic Centre. across Facility Managers and Service management and reporting Providers, and data is now trusted as The City thanks Sustainability system that helps CCAP provides a ‘single source of Victoria for funding $170,000 towards understand how to build on truth’ that can be relied upon. upgrades undertaken the project. The sustainability initiatives. It last October and November would works by receiving data In 2017 Deakin University plan to use directly from result in savings of around Deakin’s this data and develop engaging digital $35,000 per year. metering and services to information screens to communicate monitor, measure and report performance and impacts at a campus “Not only will it save thousands of on the sustainability and building level. dollars per year, but importantly, it will performance of campuses. offset around 239 tonnes of Kinesis feeds live sustainability greenhouse gas emissions, that is the flying return from Melbourne data via digital screens to staff same as to and students, providing Brisbane 223 times.” information about energy the The City was determined to ‘walk usage, water consumption and it came to sustainability talk’ when other resource management, to efforts in the influence how Deakin
HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM UPGRADE HELPS SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AT KEY COMMUNITY FACILITIES DEAKIN UNIVERSITY LEADERS IN SUSTAINABILITY DATA COLLECTION THE OUTCOME Since the implementation of the tool, Deakin University has been able to establish an emissions baseline from which they have developed a detailed Leisurelink Aquatic Centre and Corio Library will significantly improve their energy efficiency thanks to upgrades to heating and cooling systems. With funding assistance from Sustainability Victoria, the City has undertaken a $340,000 project to upgrade the chillers at Corio Library and Anakie Road depot as well as the boiler (pool heater) at Leisurelink Aquatic Centre. The City thanks Sustainability Victoria for funding $170,000 towards the project. The upgrades undertaken last October and November would result in savings of around $35,000 per year. “Not only will it save thousands of dollars per year, but importantly, it will offset around 239 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, that is the same as flying return from Melbourne to Brisbane 223 times.” The City was determined to ‘walk the talk’ when it came to sustainability efforts in the region and make all of Council’s buildings more sustainable. Deakin is the first university in Australia to use Kinesis software, an integrated data management and reporting system that helps understand how to build on sustainability initiatives. It works by receiving data directly from Deakin’s metering and services to monitor, measure and report on the sustainability performance of campuses. Kinesis feeds live sustainability data via digital screens to staff and students, providing information about energy usage, water consumption and other resource management, to influence how Deakin University uses these supplies. This system is now Deakin’s single source of truth for sustainability metrics and allows the Sustainability and Facilities teams to monitor the performance of the built environment. Carbon Management Strategy. Engagement with sustainability data has increased significantly across Facility Managers and Service Providers, and data is now trusted as CCAP provides a ‘single source of truth’ that can be relied upon. In 2017 Deakin University plan to use this data and develop engaging digital information screens to communicate performance and impacts at a campus and building level.
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