Facilities Management &
Sustainability
John Sullivan
Energy & Sustainability Office
Facilities & Services Division
Manage & Measure
Eight key target areas :
Energy & Greenhouse management
Water Management
Waste Management & Recycling
Biodiversity
Pollution Prevention & Environmental Risk
Management
 Transport
 Community Awareness
 Environmental Management
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Energy & Greenhouse Management
 Objective : To achieve a
continual improvement in
energy conservation
 Target : To reduce absolute
energy consumption and
greenhouse gas emission
levels to 10% below the
base line year (2002) by
2008
Water Conservation
 Objective: To achieve
continual improvement
in water conservation
 Target : Reduce
consumption levels by
10% by 2008 based on
2002 consumption
Waste Management
 Objective : To achieve best
practice in recycling &
waste management
 Target Reduction of waste
going to landfill by70% (
from 2002 levels) by 2008
Biodiversity
 Objective :To manage
biodiversity in an
ecologically appropriate
manner in consultation
with the university
community
 Target : Develop &
implement a biodiversity
management plan
Pollution Prevention &
Environmental Risk Management
 Objective : to continually
improve pollution
prevention actions and to
achieve best practice in
environmental
management in line with
the ACT EPA
Transport
 Objective : to positively
contribute to addressing
University-related aspects of the
sustainable urban transport
issues for Canberra
 Targets :
 Increase the efficiency of the
University car fleet
 Reduce the environmental
impact of the university’s
community commuting
Community Awareness
 Objective :To
promote corporate
and community
awareness of
environmental issues
 Target : Increase the
number of
people/areas
considering
environmental impact
of decisions
Environmental Management
 Objective :To promote
corporate and
community use of
ANUgreen as an
internal environmental
consulting unit within
the campus
 Target : to develop a
cross institutional
approach to
environmental
management. All
major areas within the
ANU to have
developed an EMS by
2008