Students at Edinburgh University are set to be encouraged to reduce their energy consumption in an effort to achieve
cheaper gas and electricity bills and reduce the higher education institution's carbon footprint.
According to the Guardian, the age of the Scottish site makes it difficult to carry out some green improvements, such as double glazing, but that it has already invested in three combined heat and power plants in an effort to cut its emissions.
And the newspaper continues that every student and employee at the university is also to be asked to cut their individual energy use in an effort to reduce any harmful impact the site has on the environment.
Edinburgh's sustainability adviser David Sommervell said: "The way we're addressing this challenge is to look at how we can switch our community on to 'switching off'."
Meanwhile, Watford Community Housing Trust, along with Mears Group and Mulalley, has announced it is to embark on the UK's biggest window replacement scheme to date as it aims to fit some 25,000 double glazed windows to tenants' properties, 24 Dash reports.
