The PAM group has been awarded funding from Cambridge Zero & the Decarbonisation Network through the Living Labs scheme to advance our lab sustainability goals.

Through LabSENSE we will develop a real-time dashboard to monitor energy, water and chemical consumption and waste production in our labs. This will allow us to quantitatively evaluate any actions we implement based on this data so that we can ensure our goals are being met. We aim to make LabSENSE fully open-access so that other labs across the university will be able to roll it out once developed. The project is led by Dr Mike Bennison & Prof. Rachel Evans, with key development contributions by Dr Takashi Lawson, Dr Zhihang Wang and Jack Avery. All members of the PAM team will be involved in implementing data monitoring.

Scope of the call: “Cambridge Zero and the Decarbonisation Network are working together to fund up to four small Living Lab demonstrator projects which should be applicable to the University of Cambridge’s estate and operations. Projects should aim to use innovative research-based approaches to explore practical decarbonisation and sustainability. We are looking for Living Lab proposals that can demonstrate a benefit and positive impact to buildings and/or operations and must be applicable to the University estate in some way.”