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Transcript of Mike Sarna Head of Interpretation & Design Building Greener Exhibitions.
Mike SarnaHead of Interpretation & Design
Building Greener Exhibitions
Presentation outline
• Stay with me (a little boring but important) - our approach
• Case studies – The Deep Sea, Butterflies, Darwin Centre
• Some practical tips that you can implement tomorrow• How you can overcome some of the pitfalls and
barriers and just get on with it
Sustainability at NHM
• Aspiration to be the most sustainable museum in the UK
• The first museum in the UK to receive ISO 14001 accreditation
• Implementation of an environmental management system
• £3m invested in new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) increasing fuel efficiency to 80%
• Invest to Save reduced our carbon emissions by 10%
• BMS upgrades to gallery controls• Borehole – grey water reuse• LED feature lighting• 4,000 light fittings – 400 tonnes of
carbon savings in a year
PEG Going Green approach (3 year goals)
• Year one – develop more sustainable approaches to doing our work, introduce a new culture, track our existing efforts and expand on successes
• Year two – implementing new and more innovative initiatives and engaging the community in the work that we are doing
• Year three – refining our work and communicating achievement
Sustainable Design and Construction• Minimize negative impacts on
the natural environment• Optimize long-term costs of
operating and maintaining exhibitions
• Optimize the quality of the indoor environment
• Educate our community to the benefits of utilization and extend awareness that could improve the local environment
WPY Image
Environmentally friendly features- LED light panels- Aluminium structures- AV Hardware- Low VOC materials
2009 Wildlife Photographer
of the year
2010 Wildlife Photographer
of the year
The Deep Sea2010
Darwin Centre2011
Wall systems
Interactives
Seating
LED Light panels
AV
Wall systems
Interactives
AV
Seating
Casework
Wall systems
Interactives
LED Light panels
AV
Casework
Seating
AV
Storage
Storage
What made it to the tip?
• Graphics• Fabric wall covering• Central whale fall feature (some non-recycled
elements)
Suggestions for approach
• Planning and embedding into the process (audit)• Scoping a legacy• Absorbing costs (storage)
Natural History Museum
Environmentally preferable materials and fabrication
IntroductionIn working towards continual improvements in the sustainability
of the Museum’s exhibitions and public offer, and in line with
Museum's Environmental Policy, design and fabrication should
demonstrate consideration of environmental impacts.
Environmentally preferable products will be purchased whenever
they offer value for money and preference will be given to
designs that incorporate, or provide alternative options, for:
Energy efficient lighting and technology
The use of recycled material
The use of environmentally preferable material
The use of sustainably sourced material
The use of material, and its packaging, that can be reused,
recycled, or taken back by supplier for remanufacturing.
Specific Environmental Preferences
•It is the responsibility of designers to ensure that they do not
specify or procure materials that are banned under EU and UK
Legislation and British Standards. The following list gives some
examples of the materials that should be included, but is not
exclusive:Asbestos or materials containing asbestos;
Vermiculite insulation materials (unless established as asbestos
free);Lead or materials containing Lead;
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s); and
Timber preservatives – Dieldrine, Lindane, Creosote (UK Banned),
Pentochlorophenol (PCP) (severely restricted with EC Directive.).
The following materials should be avoided on environmental
grounds as they present such a risk to the environment that they
should be controlled by application of a project wide standard:
SUSTAINABILITY – DC2 PUBLIC OFFER
Aspects able to be implemented under Project Management
Toner Stevenson, November 2007
Additional information from meeting held 20 November, 2007 with Lisa Miall and Glynnan Barham.
The following rationale was discussed to ensure NHM policy is implemented. Interpretation stra
tegy to be added by
Mike Sarna.
ASSESSMENT OF BRIEFS AND TENDERS
Environmental policy will be followed throughout the project and on specific situ
ations, such as tendering (this is
already occurring). T
he Museums environment policy is included as part of every tender package. The DC2 approved
procurement policy also has this embedded within it. T
his covers the following:
Production and specification methods
Use of materials
Waste disposal and renewable options
OJEU/OJEC tendering process will in
clude environmental issues as a key criterion for DC2 works.
Action: continue as planned with all tenders.
CONSULTATION AT MILESTONES
Reviews will occur at key milestones, su
ch as Detail Design Quality Assurance (Feb/Mar 08).
Action: TS to review the Design Quality Indicator
EVALUATION
Lisa has offered to evaluate work as it is d
one to assure the standards promised are being met. This will b
e on an on-call
basis.
Key Areas of high impact:
LIGHTING: Explore, Atrium, DAS special lighting
Most exhibition, specialist and display lighting in the public offer sp
ace is able to be specified and delivered with a high
level of energy efficiency, life-cycle and control. L
ife-cycle An important aspect of the appointment of lighting
Designer, Mark Sutton Vane, was th
e company’s positio
n as a leader in meeting and setting environmental standards,
making energy efficiency and environmental concerns central to their business practice. Showcase lighting forms part of
their brief and will have sim
ilar conditions upon it as well as str
ingent collections-based criteria.
The control systems fo
r lighting will in
clude dormant period emergency lighting, cleaning lighting modes and
operational lighting.
Areas of concern are the lighting of Science spaces during times when there is n
o science occupation but when the
public offer is fully operational.
Action: GB will give TS the outcome of the lighting audit re
view.
Creating a green relationship• Project team• Designers• Fabrication firms • Agreed process
Sample process
Briefs & Tenders
www.emcbe.com/toolkit
Milestone Consultation
Evaluation & Tracking
Project TeamEnvironmental Plan
Pre ProjectAppraisal
Procurement StrategyKPIsStatutory RequirementsFabrication Tenders
Exhibition DesignService StrategyConstruction
UseRefurbishDisposal
Amazing Butterflies
Butterfly Explorers
Communicating achievement
Balancing Environmental Considerations
• Performance – will these materials be durable in high traffic areas?
• Availability – how readily available are some of these materials?
• Financial Cost – is this going to break the museum’s budget?
• Aesthetic – are the product choices limiting and materials just plain ugly?
• What is “green”?
www.bre.co.uk/greenguide
Establishing Priorities• Sustainability is core to the Natural
History Museum’s brand • Audit – get a grip on what you are
already doing• Elicit feedback from staff and address
concerns and find ways forward• Minimum standards as recommended
by third-party organizations• Promoting Green Procurement• Internal Green Team
• Staff Education
Give it a go – what if we do nothing?