Progress and key achievements in 2012/13 • The Trust was shortlisted for the HSJ Awards under the Good Corporate Citizenship category for work on progressing the Carbon Management Plan and general sustainability efforts • A ‘Sustainability Garden Party’ was held at City Hospital to engage staff in energy efficiency, reducing waste and recycling more, reducing printing and paper use, active and sustainable travel, and health and wellbeing • Lighting surveys have been carried out and a proposal submitted to the Trust for energy efficient lighting and controls. Work has already begun in the Estates Department, Sheldon Block and the libraries at City and Sandwell Hospitals. The Trust is looking into undertaking pilot projects, focusing on those areas that have higher energy savings and the shortest payback periods • An estates rationalisation programme is underway and will greatly reduce energy consumption and therefore carbon emissions. It is estimated that the Trust will save around 244 tonnes of carbon each year (or 895,000 kWh in gas and electricity consumption) if the planned estates rationalisation programme for City and Sandwell is successful • The Trust has implemented new carbon management software that will store all carbon-related data (i.e. data on energy, water, waste and transport/travel) in a secure and reliable system. It will also aid reporting for the Carbon Management Plan, Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and other internal monitoring and feedback • The recycling scheme (for paper, cardboard and plastics) at City Hospital continues to run well, with a further 20 paper and 20 plastic large silo bins procured to cope with the recycling demands of the Trust. This will help the Trust save carbon emissions and also costs. • A new Photovoltaic energy source is was installed on the roof of the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre in May 2013. This will provide a peak 50KW of electricity from solar energy into the Sheldon Block and Eye Centre electrical distribution network. This equates to a £7940 a year electricity saving and a reduction of 23,348 tons of CO2 per year.
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