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Spring Conference 2009

The Council’s Property and Capital Funding branch held its annual conference for estates representative from Scotland’s college and universities at the The Radisson Hotel, Glasgow on Wednesday 11 March 2009.

The agenda from the day is shown below with links to some of the presentations and delegate's biographies. The list of delegates can also be found here.

Morning Chair: Ian Murning, Chair, SFC Capital Investment Committee

1

Welcome from  

2

Opening address

Mark Batho, CEO SFC

3

The South Lanarkshire College experience

Stewart_McKillop, Principal

4

Stevenson College: The Music Box project

Susan_Walsh, ex-Principal

5

Inheriting Cardonald College

Susan_Walsh, Principal

6

Scottish Funding Council Gateway approval process

Martin Kirkwood, Deputy Director of Funding

7

Avoiding the pitfalls of a major project/lessons learned

Property Support Service

8

Good practice – whole life costing

Property Support Service

9

Scottish Government Gateway review process

Alastair_Wyllie, Gateway Director, Scottish Government

Afternoon Chair: Dr Janet Lowe, Vice-Chair, SFC Capital Investment Committee

10

Workshops (50/50 talk/discussion)

 

a) Collaborative projects: Scottish Borders Campus co-location project and best practice process map

Members of co-location research project advisory group

 

b) Project finance post credit crunch/emerging themes with Q&A 

Andrew Watson, Quayle Munro;
John Watt, Grant Thornton

 

c) BREEAM Education

Laura Birrell, BRE Scotland

 

d) Travel planning

Stephen Rennie, Fiona Simon,
Energy Savings Trust

11

The climate challenge:
Energy Performance Certificates
Carbon reduction commitment
Carbon Trust Standard

David Somervell, Vice-Convenor
EAUC Scotland

12

Cutting construction waste:
a commitment approach

Jim Wiltshire, WRAP        
(Waste & Resources Action Programme)

13

Closing remarks

Dr Janet Lowe