Displayed information encourages energy saving behaviours
Helping our future generations see the part they play in good energy management practices
Children, just like adults, need to be informed of the ways they interact with buildings, so that they can not only monitor the impact of their behaviour within that building but also take corrective actions. Benchmarking best practice and presenting them in a youth-friendly format is the way we help you do it.
School energy management system preaches what it practises
Teachers at Sutton Park Community Primary School in Kidderminster are doing their best to ensure that their pupils do not take the world’s natural resources for granted. They have been helped in this quest by the Trend system, part of whose function is to educate the children about the importance of energy conservation and sustainable living.
The pupils at Sutton Park can look at BEMS collected data about their school – through custom-designed, child-friendly graphic pages to view system monitored data such as room temperatures and CO2 concentrations within the schools.
Child-friendly graphics and BEMS Best practice combined to deliver a class act
Using simply worded text, animated graphics and a pictorial style familiar to a young audience, the children are shown how their classrooms are kept warm and their hand washing water is heated and how rainwater is collected and used for flushing toilets. The displays contain live and historic data collected by the BEMS, such as current temperature values and cumulative energy and mains/rain water consumption.
To encourage energy saving behaviour, the interactive screen shows the electricity usage for each classroom area – for the current day, the last month and the year to date. The school now intends to modify and develop the displays with a view to establishing this innovative teaching aid as part of the curriculum.
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