JISC Green ICT

An essential part of our project is to involve and engage students with the ’Green @ CU’  Facebook page as a way of promoting energy messages, prompting responses, and sharing links, such as to the game.  During […]

The CUSTOMER project has entered the final term, and students are busy with exams.
We have all the meters in place, the dashboard working and data is being analysed.
Students are trying to recruit others to the […]

Mike Foxall, Chris Morgan and Elise Smithson have now agreed locations for the research in our student accommodation.  These include:

2 student houses
2 floors in Quadrant Hall
10 rooms in Pillar Box (electric […]

Christine Broughan and Katie Hartless consulted and pulled together ideas for the questionnaire.  The questionnaire is to get information about our current cohort of students regarding their ownership of computers […]

Our University Ethics Approval process has signed off the student survey and focus groups, and we can now proceed with capturing responses.

159 students from across Coventry University’s different accommodations completed an online survey on accommodation, energy and the environment. 
Key findings include:

65% of the respondents already try to save […]

The survey and focus group data has now been analysed and a report on the findings submitted to our JISC Programme Manager. 

Wrote the progress report for JISC yesterday, but need to update it with the news about meter installation dates and check a few bits with others.  Elise Smithson will finish it off and submit it in my absence.

A meeting with BAS re sensor costs and site survey planned for next week.  CO2 detectors probably not sufficient and now considering wireless PIR detectors.  I just hope they won’t be too expensive.

We now have revised dates for meter installation to commence on 22 August, which wll be confirmed on Monday.  They should be in when I get back from my holiday.

On 9 February 2012, Elise Smithson and Dr Panos Petridis gave a presentation on Green@CU  at the JISC Workshop Information for Energy Efficiency Improvement – Dashboards, Displays, Reports and Other Measures to […]

We met with our Student Energy Ambassadors for the last time before Christmas.  In our reflections on this term’s activities, we recognise that getting students involved and interested in Green@CU (student […]

Submitted our detailed plans and work packages to JISC on Monday 21 March.  Because there are six different areas of the University involved (Estates, Student Services, Students Union, IT Services, Serious Games Institute and Faculty of Engineering and Computing) it was a lot of work to draw ideas together and to work this up into a [...]

The CUSTOMER Project aims to develop and trial a range of interventions that will lead to a reduced carbon footprint in Coventry University student accommodation.  It is a JISC funded project and part of the JISC Greening ICT Programme.  As such, the project also aims to provide good practice guidance for the sector on energy usage and [...]