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Labs21
UK has been established by the Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) project
to support more sustainable design and operation of laboratories
in Britain. It draws, with permission, on the experience and
materials of the Labs21 initiative in the USA.
HEEPI is currently working on a 3-year programme, S-Lab
(Safe, Successful and Sustainable Laboratories) which aims to
create more sustainable laboratories. It has 3 streams of work:
Laboratory design (working in partnership with
owners and suppliers, and in collaboration with the US Labs
21 initiative);
Laboratory operation (working closely with
lab managers and technicians, and in collaboration with the UK HEATED project and its members who are focused on the professional development of that community); and
Laboratory users (working closely with staff
and students, and the relevant UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centres).
We also have additional projects on greening scientific computing and videoconferencing - see the SusteIT section of our main web site for further details.
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Sustainable Labs Events
Please visit our main web site for the presentations (where available) from previous events, case studies and other materials, and details of future activities.
Safe, Successful and Sustainable Laboratories - The Centre for
Cancer Research and Cell Biology, 29/11/09, Queen's University
Belfast. Click
here for presentations.
Cutting Energy Use with Variable Air Volume (VAV) in Labs, Hospitals
and Other Heavily Serviced Spaces - New examples and research
in the UK and USA , 14/5/09, University of Cambridge.
Click
here for presentations.
The Sustainable Laboratory - How academics, lab managers and
technicians can make an environmental difference in their workplace,
01/05/09 University of Edinburgh. Click
here for presentations.
Greening STEM - Sustainability in the
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Curriculum,
28/04/09 University of Bradford. Click
here for presentations.
The Sustainable Laboratory - How academics, lab managers and
technicians can make an environmental difference, 27/04/09 Royal
Society of Chemistry, London.
Click here for presentations.
Click here for the cover article for
Science
magazine featuring Allen Doyle, University of California, speaker
at the 3 events above.
Designing Laboratories for Energy
Efficiency and Sustainability, University of Manchester, 2 March
2009. Click
here for presentations.
Energy Efficient AND Safe HVAC
for Labs
- US Experience and Lessons, School of Pharmacy, 3 March 2009.
Click here
for Presentations.
Making Laboratories and Data Centres More Sustainable, Best
Practice in Europe and North America, University of Luxembourg,
5 March 2009. Click
here for details.
UK Publications
Labs21 UK has produced a Position
Paper which summarises the main lessons for UK labs based
on US Labs21 experience. This is based on three events which
took place in September 2006:
Conference
on High Performance Buildings, University of Glasgow, featuring
the Cardiovascular and Biomedical Research Centre and other
Award-winning laboratories.
Designing
Sustainable Laboratories, a one day, 'hands on', specialist
training course at the University of Leeds.
Creating
Sustainable Laboratories, a workshop in Central London.
Labs 21 US Conference
The Labs21 2010 conference will take place in Albequerque, New
Mexico. Click
here for more details or visit the conference
website.
The Labs21
2009 Annual Conference took place September 2009 in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
See a 2007 Nature
article on Labs21.
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