Background With more than 8,000 staff, 38,000 students, and a turnover of c.£700m, the University of Birmingham is a leading Russell Group University. Our heritage as the UK’s original ‘red brick’ and civic university, is combined with one of the most compelling and ambitious agendas in higher education. The University of Birmingham’s Strategic Framework 2030 sets out our ambition. With world-class research and outstanding global education as our core mission, we will strive to increase the volume and quality of our research to make an even greater difference to the world around us. We will be the UK’s exemplary civic university, remaining firmly committed to our foundations in the highly diverse communities, people, and economy of the city of Birmingham and the West Midlands. Birmingham 2030 strengthens our commitment to sustainability as one of six core pillars of our activity. We will use our research and education to make a major global contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and have set out a headline aim to be net zero carbon for scope 1 and 2 by 2035 and overall by 2045. As a research-intensive University founded on social responsibility, we have the expertise and partnerships to play a significant role in tackling global sustainability challenges.
The Estates Office has a pivotal role in decarbonisation, especially the transition of a campus designed for high temperature, high carbon energy sources to one that meets our 2035 requirements. We also need to ensure that sustainability is engrained into our operations and ways of thinking, including the use of materials, emissions to air, land and water and fiscal management. The Utilities Section supports the office in the efficient and intelligent operation of buildings, generation plant, energy / carbon costs and consumption, the provision of strategic direction related to environmental and sustainability and the development of a smart campus together with associated regulatory compliance.
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