Newcastle University

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Switch off; re-launched!
Switch Off 2010 was a year long communication campaign, educating staff and students on energy wastage across campus. The aim was to raise awareness of the amount of energy the University wastes, and encourage staff and students to turn off any unnecessary electrical items, such as lights.

The success of this awareness campaign showed just how important individual building users are to energy usage on campus. From this campaign, we have developed a follow up campaign for 2011 - brilliantly entitled Switch Off! This new campaign will go round every building on campus, and focus upon the technical aspect of energy. The new sub-metering system has enabled access to building specific energy figures, meaning we can provide a tailor made service to help building users reduce their energy consumption / wastage.

The new campaign will be launched in Climate Week (21st - 26th March 2011) so keep a look out for Switch Off in a building near you...


©Joshua Redmond

University Library contacts:
Wayne Connolly or lib-greengroup@ncl.ac.uk.