How to make your lab work more sustainable
Workshop "How to make your lab work more sustainable" am 13. und 14. März
Im Rahmen des Projektes „Green Lab Guide TU Dresden“ der Gruppe Umweltschutz und gemeinsam mit dem deutschlandweiten Projekt "NACH-LABS - Reducing environmental impact and improving sustainability in laboratories at German universities" der HAW Hamburg wird am 13. und 14.03. ein zweitägiger Workshop angeboten. Im Projekt „NACH-LABS“ wurde dazu eine Methode entwickelt, die theoretische und praktische Inhalte kombiniert. Der Workshop findet komplett in Englisch statt.
Workshop Background
Laboratory and research work is resource-intensive and costly. Laboratory buildings use 3-5 times more energy and water than office buildings, -80°C freezers use about as much energy as a single-family home and life science laboratories worldwide generated about 5.5 million tons of plastic waste already in 2014. Such issues have increasingly come into focus in recent years.
As part of the TUD project "Green Lab Guide TU Dresden" and together with the Germany-wide project "NACH-LABS - Reducing environmental impact and improving sustainability in laboratories at German universities" at HAW Hamburg, a two-day workshop will be offered on March 13 and 14. The "NACH-LABS" project has developed a tool combining theoretical and practical content.
In this workshop, participants learn about strategies and best practice examples and work out improvement options in on-site inspections. Each team receives a checklist as a guide (based on the criteria of the LEAF assessment tool and the Ecomapping method) and documents the status quo. When the teams finished the inspections, we will discuss observations and define the next actions. In addition, the laboratories can receive LEAF certification after implementing their measures.
Location
Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), room 2.310
address: Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden show map of this location.
Agenda
March 13, 2024
9:00 am to 12:00 am: Introduction to the „Green Lab“ concept (Part 1)
- sustainability in a research content and impact of lab work,
- Operations and best practice (energy, water, consumables & plastic, chemicals and waste)
1:00 pm 5:00 pm: on-site inspections
- Short introduction to the method for lab inspections
- Teams conduct on-site inspections on labs in three time slots:
- 14:00 to 15:30: Inspection Group 1
- 14:30 to 16:00: Inspection Group 2
- 15:00 to 16:30: Inspection Group 3
- Short summary oft the day
March 14, 2024
9:00 am to 5:00 pm: introduction to the „Green Lab“ concept (Part 2)
- Management and procurement,
- Safety (Part 1): General and intrinsic laboratory safety;
- Safety (Part 2): Contribution of ventilation and safe working with fume hoods, methods, Routines & long term implementation
- further questions, summary and outlook