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Since early July, the University’s waste has been going to a facility run by our new waste contractors Mick George . Spotlight on Waste month offered the opportunity to visit their facility and see first-hand what happens to the University’s waste. Feeling invincible in our steel-capped boots, hard hats, safety glasses and...

We’ve got a lot on the cards for 2016/17. Ten academic projects are already underway. Potential future projects, identified by Estate Management staff, will be appearing on the Living Lab webpages shortly. This will help create more project opportunities starting from where the need exists on the operational side. Thermal...

Amy Carmichael reports on her internship, organised through the Living Laboratory for Sustainability, to Tokyo in the summer of 2016. I'm writing from the Shukkeien Gardens in Hiroshima, taking some time to reflect on my six weeks as a ‘Sustainability Fellow' at the University of Tokyo. After being warmly welcomed by my...

Ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers typically operate between -70 and -80 o C, consuming roughly 16-22kWh(i) of electricity per day, roughly twice the consumption of an average UK household (9kWh/day)(ii). As these freezers age, their energy consumption increases, and freezers used for more than 10 years can be extremely...