The great building titration has begun… #UCLChemLivingLab

Today we're going to take another step in our buidling titration. I'm so lucky to be working with colleagues for whom curiosity and experimentation is a feature, not a bug.
If I'm right about where the endpoint lies, no one will notice the experiment, and if so there will be some big lessons for the future of UCL's estate. And not just our estate but others too.

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@sellathechemist Estate management continues to be a challenge, especially for large Departments. Over the past decade or so we've become more and more fragmented, now in about 9 buildings.

@davoloid Yes. Agreed. We're fragmented over four, and all four buildings perform incredibly poorly because no one has focused on the available data/telemetry as well as careful maintenance and repair.
Add in the classic problem that there is little attention to strategic space management and you have a real recipe for maximising energy waste.
But the beauty is that there is no reason why you can't address it with a little thought and willingness to try things and learn. #UCLChemLivingLab

@sellathechemist It's next on my project list, a method for keeping track of our room and desk allocations within/across buildings and groups. Telemetry is definitely a problem - we've had card swiping data for a while but it needs some work to be able to get some useful information on what days/times are busy in which buildings. Also want to avoid "Big Brother" tendencies.

@davoloid I have a cunning plan for you! You and I should have a chat with John Burgess, our Energy Manager who has an incredibly clever way of doing exactly what you want! Absolutely anonymous but extremely informative. It's the reason I think he is the reincarnation of Eliot Ness. #DalaiNess #UCLLivingLab

@sellathechemist Thanks, will do!