1. Creu Cymru
Emergence-Eginiad Pilot
Energy and waste management
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2. Creu Cymru
Emergence-Eginiad Pilot
Energy and waste management
16th October 2013
Catherine Langabeer & Lucy Latham
Julie’s Bicycle

3. Welcome
• Who’s on the webinar with us today?

4. Your control panel - features

5. Today’s agenda
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Pilot Goals
Drivers
Energy Management: Why? How? What?
First 5 steps
Waste Management: Why? How? What?
First 5 steps
Discussion

6. Pilot goals
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Venue CEOs taken a leadership role
Successful engagement of staff, boards, LAs, etc
All venues taken action – from basic to more challenging
Carbon baseline for all venues with data
Environmental policies and action plans
Shared understanding of who is doing what
New channels of communication and cooperation created
Online knowledge bank and community of best practice
Catalysed a shift in organisational culture and behaviour

7. Why?
Drivers for
change
Climate change
adaptation
Policy and
legislation
Business case
Commodity
pricing and
resource scarcity
Reputation

8. More than environmental
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Energy efficiency refurbishments -> Improved
comfort for staff and visitors
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Energy efficiency refurbishments -> Increasing
potential use of venue spaces e.g. new hires
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Improved building controls and management ->
Making building more adaptive, reducing building
costs
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Renewable energy infrastructure -> Reducing
costs and reliance on conventional energy

9. Energy: Why?
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Rising fossil fuel prices
Reliability of future energy supplies
Improved energy efficiency to reduce costs
Demonstrate efficient business planning to funders
Civic leadership (public image)

10. Energy: How?
• Avoid: do things differently to avoid using energy e.g.
using natural ventilation instead of air-conditioning,
holding events outdoors in summer.
• Reduce: reduce your energy consumption by
improving efficiency e.g. use more efficient lighting.
• Replace: change from fossil-fuel based energy to low
or zero carbon energy sources e.g. switching to a
truly “green” tariff , and generating renewable energy
on-site.

11. Energy: What?

12. Toolkit Example Actions
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Improving monitoring: Install sub-meters to identify energy use in
specific areas
Buildings management and fabric: Adjust controls using timers and
thermostats to ensure heating, cooling and lighting systems switch on
and off according to occupancy periods and building zone use.
Heating and hot water systems: Reduce the thermostats of any
immersion boilers to 60C.
Ventilation and air-conditioning: If you have a significant ventilation
system with cooling motors, fit a modern variable-speed drive (VSD) or
a 2 or 3-stage fan speed control.
Energy supply and optimisation: Buy ‘green tariff’ electricity (if you
procure your own energy supply), or switch to a 100% renewable
energy provider such as Good Energy, Ecotricity or Green Energy
Lighting: Install PIR motion sensors and daylight sensors.

13. 5 First Steps:
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Conduct a walk around energy survey
Review your data collection and building systems
Calculate your energy baseline and input into IG Tool
Prioritise your impacts
Engage with your staff – start the conversation

14. Step 1: Conduct a walk around energy
survey
• Walk around your building
• Record all the systems using energy (e.g.
ventilation, heating, lighting, air-conditioning)
• Record the zones these systems are
controlling (e.g. in performance/exhibition
areas, foyers, offices, bars)
• Review your meters- How many? What utility
do they provide? Where do they serve?

15. Step 2: Review your data collection
and building management
• Review your energy data:
- What is recorded?
- Who records it?
- How often?
- When and how is it reported?
- What are the barriers e.g. accessing meters, non-monthly bills
• What building systems do you have in place? e.g.
- Sub-meters
- Smart meters
- BMS (building management system)
- Monitoring software

16. Step 3: Calculate your energy
baseline
• Create a baseline of annual energy consumption (kWh),
cost and carbon emissions for each utility. Aggregate data
by month (where possible), using information drawing
from meter reads (best practice) or bills (good practice)
• Verify actual energy use against invoiced consumption
data
• Consider times of energy use e.g. day versus night, winter
versus summer, holidays, production/rehearsal timings
etc.
• Familiarise yourself with the Julie’s Bicycle IG Tool for
venues – enter your annual data once you have it

17. Julie’s Bicycle Industry Green (IG)
Tool

18. Step 4: Prioritise your impacts
• Identify high energy users e.g. stage lighting, HVAC
system etc.
• Identify areas of poor efficiency e.g. single glazing,
old boilers etc.
• Identify any areas of poor thermal comfort
Consider:
• What do you have control over/can easily influence?
• What areas do you consider quick/cheap wins?
• Any funded projects in the pipeline?

19. Step 5: Engage with your staff –
start the conversation
• Senior management buy-in
• Staff perceptions of thermal comfort
• Staff awareness/interest in energy use and
conservation
• Identify need for behaviour change campaign
• Roles and responsibilities: new roles?

20. Energy monitoring “kit”
Plug in meter
Clamp
on
meter
Wattson
energy
display
monitor

21. Further reading
• Carbon Trust Technology and Energy Management
publications
• SAVE ENERGY Energy audit methodologies and
procedures (2010)
• Julie’s Bicycle Energising Culture (2012)

22. Waste: Why?
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Throwing things away wastes resources
High waste to landfill tax: £72 / tonne
Landfill generates methane
Runoff from waste as it decomposes may cause
pollution.
• Incinerating waste causes problems, such as
producing toxic substances and air pollution.

23. Waste: How?
• Avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle and work towards
zero waste to landfill.
• Look at both at what comes in and what goes out
• Go systematically through your operations.

24. Waste: What?

25. Toolkit Examples
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Avoiding and reducing waste: Include in your procurement policy a
procedure that makes sure you are basing purchasing decisions on
accurate information about stock and actual usage.
Avoiding and reducing waste: Use tap water in jugs instead of
bottled water.
Avoiding and reducing waste: Set photocopiers and printers to
double-sided copying and printing as default.
Reusing and recycling: Use waste paper as notepaper and reuse
envelopes and other packaging.
Reusing and recycling: Use durable cups, mugs, glasses and cutlery
rather than disposable.
Reusing and recycling: Use toners and cartridges which have been
refilled or remanufactured. Do check that your machines can accept
refilled/remanufactured products.

26. 5 First Steps:
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Calculate your incoming materials and products
Review data collection & waste management systems
Calculate your waste baseline and input into IG Tool
Prioritise your impacts
Engage with your staff – start the conversation

27. Step 1: Calculate your incoming
materials and products
• Identify the main types and volumes of products
and materials you purchase
• What stock control systems do you have in
place?

28. Step 2: Review your data collection
and waste management systems
• Understand your data and systems:
- What is recorded? e.g. bin pick-ups V tonnage
- Who records it?
- How often?
- When and how is it reported?
- What are the barriers e.g. contractor data
• What waste streams do you currently recycle? e.g.
paper, plastics, cans, food waste etc.

29. Step 3: Calculate your waste baseline
• Conduct an initial waste audit. Try and get a year’s worth
of data, aggregated monthly.
• How much is created and from where?
• How is your waste currently dealt with?
- Landfill
- Incineration
- Energy from waste incineration
- Composting
- Recycling
• What are the costs?

30. Step 4: Prioritise your impacts
• Using the information learned from ‘Step 1: Calculate your
incoming materials and products’, identify areas for
reducing overall waste.
• Use the initial waste audit, identify recycling improvements
e.g. more recycling bins, more waste streams recycled.
Consider:
• What do you have control over/can easily influence?
• What areas do you consider quick/cheap wins? e.g.
simple alterations to housekeeping like providing tap water
instead of bottled water.
• Any funded projects in the pipeline?

31. Step 5: Engage with your staff –
start the conversation
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Senior management buy-in
Staff awareness/interest in recycling
Identify need for behaviour change campaign
Roles and responsibilities: new roles?

32. Further reading
• WRAP Business Resource efficiency Resource Hub
• Julie’s Bicycle will soon be launching the new version
of the Green Arts Marketplace

33. Discussion
• Successes
• Good practice
• Barriers

34. Creu Cymru
Emergence-Eginiad Pilot –
Thanks for joining us!
Energy and waste management
16th October 2013
Catherine Langabeer & Lucy Latham
Julie’s Bicycle