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University collaboration is vital for cost cutting, but it must be flexible

By District Energy posted 16 days ago

  

Times Higher Education

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Universities UK’s Transformation and Efficiency Taskforce – commonly known as the Carrington Review – is right to focus squarely on the importance of increasing collaboration between universities.

The Carrington Review also details opportunities to use shared buying power. The Bloomsbury Heat and Power network is a good example, bringing together three neighbouring federation members in central London – UCL, SOAS and the University of London – to generate and distribute power centrally through a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) scheme. Work is now under way on a major upgrade following recent investment that will decarbonise our Bloomsbury estate by 99 per cent. Other universities that are physically close to one another could imitate this example.

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