CANCELLED - REPLACED BY PARALLEL LESSIONS -- Plenary Session: The Entopia Building – managing processes whilst balancing sustainability objectives.
Tracks
Isaac Newton
Tennyson
Byron
Hawking
| Friday, October 25, 2024 |
| 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Issac Newton Room, Hilton City Centre |
Overview
Katherine Hirst, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Details
With a conference title of 'Sustainability in Lean' the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) was excited to discuss a range of topics but had to pick only one. In this session we will discuss the development of CISL’s ultra-sustainable new home – the Entopia building – looking at how you manage processes whilst balancing sustainability objectives including:
- Radical improvements in the building’s energy efficiency
- Minimisation of whole-life embodied carbon
- Prioritisation of circular design principles
- Maximisation of bio-based materials and nature-positive design solutions
- Adherence to responsible procurement practices
- Careful attention to indoor environmental quality, health and safety
concerns, social and community value, and heritage conservation
- Attention to economic concerns, including opportunities for employment and decent jobs, training, knowledge creation, and knowledge exchange
- Radical improvements in the building’s energy efficiency
- Minimisation of whole-life embodied carbon
- Prioritisation of circular design principles
- Maximisation of bio-based materials and nature-positive design solutions
- Adherence to responsible procurement practices
- Careful attention to indoor environmental quality, health and safety
concerns, social and community value, and heritage conservation
- Attention to economic concerns, including opportunities for employment and decent jobs, training, knowledge creation, and knowledge exchange
Speaker
Katherine Hirst
Head of Strategic Operations
University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
The Entopia Building– managing processes whilst balancing sustainability objectives
9:15 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Katherine Hirst is Head of Strategic Operations at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Katherine’s role includes working to ensure that CISL and University processes are embedded in a way that allows CISL to deliver its wide-ranging activities from convening global networks, developing pioneering research, catalyzing entrepreneurship to delivering empowering education – all with the aim of transforming economies for people nature and climate.
Katherine joined CISL in 2019 as Senior Project Manager, and later as Education Operations Manager before moving to her current role. Prior to that Katherine worked across the non-profit sector for a range of national and international organisations, undertaking a variety of roles bringing together process management with a significant focus on people, operational excellence and impact.
Katherine holds an MSc in International Development from the University of Bristol and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
