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Laboratory Environmental Improvement: UK and US Best Practice Examples and Processes

23rd April 2010 University of Edinburgh

EVENT REVIEW:
This free Edinburgh event examined the challenges of improving the environmental performance of laboratories, and how they can be overcome.

Presentations from the event can be downloaded below:

Key Issues in Laboratory Environmental Improvement
Prof Peter James, Director, S-Lab

Laboratory Auditing and Energy Efficiency in Biosciences
David Somervell, Sustainability Adviser and Tom McGrath, Intern, both University of Edinburgh

Auditing and Improving Energy Efficiency in Cambridge's Chemistry Laboratory
Malcolm Tait, Partner KJ Tait, speaking with permission on his work with the University of Cambridge

Laboratory Improvement Actions at the University of St Andrews
David Stutchfield, Energy Manager, and John Smith, Building Officer, School of Chemistry

Lab environmental performance - S-Lab and LabRATS experience
Lisa Hopkinson, S-Lab Researcher with additional slides courtesty of Amorette Getty of LabRATS, University of California Santa Barbara

Saving Money and Wastage through Chemical Management
Derek Burgess, Senior Technician, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Note that Derek's presentation consisted of a live demo of the School of Chemistry's chemical management software. Some training demos of this system can be downloaded below - this uses shockwave flash. Please save both the demo and the swf file into a folder on your desktop first before opening.

Please also see the S-Lab case study on Better Chemical Management at University of Edinburgh

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