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Oxford Brookes’ green credentials recognised with shortlistings for two national awards

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Peter Davison

Oxford Brookes University has been shortlisted for two national awards after implementing an innovative heating system on its Headington campus, which will reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent.

The University has been commended for its environmentally friendly geo-exchange heating system, which has reduced the use of fossil fuels on its Headington Campus since the system went live in July 2022.

The University has now been nominated in this year’s Regen’s Green Energy Awards, and the AUDE Awards from the Association of University Directors of Estates.

Michele Morley, Head of Environmental Sustainability at Oxford Brookes said: “We are thrilled that this innovative carbon reduction project is being recognised with these two national award nominations.

“The project has made a significant impact in advancing sustainable energy solutions and reducing carbon emissions, and it has the potential to be a game-changer for organisations with constrained sites trying to address decarbonisation of their heating and cooling systems.

“From the outset, the way in which the University has approached this project has been very different from the norm, delivering a pragmatic, realistic approach, where risk was managed, and uncertainties accommodated to deliver short and long-term carbon savings on our net-zero journey.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.

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