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Building Management System Upgrade – The Janet Lane-Claypon building

Estates are investing £150,000 in a major BMS upgrade at the university. From Monday 1st July, contractors will be upgrading the Building Management System (BMS) in the Janet Lane-Claypon...

Image of a white and grey building with lots of windows and a rounded part at the front.

May Sustainability Round Up – University of Lincoln Declares Climate Emergency

University of Lincoln declares Climate Emergency On May 16th 2019, the University of Lincoln declared a climate emergency: “Climate change is the primary concern for young people across...

Summer Works – New Coffee Shop and Interim Medical School Facilities

Minerva Building – New Coffee Shop From Tuesday 4th June, works will commence reconfiguring the University Shop area on the ground floor of the Minerva Building into a...

April Sustainability Round Up

  We’re more than halfway through our Sustainability Campaign Calendar! In April we focussed on biodiversity, linking out to some books on the subject at the University of...

March Sustainability Round Up

The theme for March on our Sustainability Campaign Calendar was “Community Collaboration”. We encouraged our followers on Twitter to get in touch if they had a sustainable project or...

February Sustainability Round Up

Our February campaign has been “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, with a focus on the “reduce” aspect, whether that be by travelling sustainably, shopping second hand, or ditching plastic in...

The display at the Sustainable Transport event, February 2019

Bees: Not Simply Pollinators

Honeybees are vital pollinators and their decline has been documented thoroughly across the news in recent years. Our Brayford Campus is now home to an observation hive, installed...

Image of honeybees on honeycomb

January Sustainability Round Up

This January our sustainability theme was “Stay Warm for Less”.  We promoted various ways in  which you can keep warm without having a huge environmental impact. You can...

Hoar frost on campus

December Sustainability Round Up

In December, the Environment team promoted the Switch Off Campaign, to encourage our University staff and students to switch off all unnecessary appliances, PCs and monitors over the...