The start up meeting

The first project team meeting has taken place and the project is now underway.  The team in Facilities Management are developing the business requirements for the new dashboard to enable us to develop an “ideal template” with no software influence to release to the HE sector as an example or starting point for similar projects. 

The decisions to be made are; where will this dashboard sit? How do we ensure it is easy to access, that people are aware of it and people look at it without making it appear in a way that will frustrate users? Once we have our ideal dashboard created, we will bring in the software suppliers to start developing it.

Evaluation will soon be underway to create a baseline for us to measure the success of the project against.  This will include assessing the current energy consumption of buildings and the attitudes of staff and students towards energy consumption on campus.

The start of iBuilding

iBuilding is funded by JISC through the Greening ICT Programme.  iBuilding will see the development and roll out of dashboards that will be used to enable staff and students access to data about the energy consumption of buildings on the UCLan campus.  The dashboard will also enable two way communication between Facilities Management, who are responsible for the estate, and users of the dashboard to enable them to become more actively involved in managing UCLan's energy consumption. 

This blog will be used to track the development of the project.