Overview and Challenge Following the success of a project in 2014 which saw the upgrade of 44 laboratory fume cupboards with TEL products, Reading University was embarking on an estate- wide upgrade of science laboratory fume cupboards as part of its Extracting Carbon Savings from our Science Labs project. Its primary aim was to reduce carbon emissions but it also wanted to cut energy costs. Solution In 2016, Reading University appointed TEL and laboratory system design and installation experts, CSW Technical, to take on this major sustainability project. It had worked with both companies on the 2014 pilot and was already saving 343 CO2 tonnes in energy and £90,000 in costs per year. In total, the Extracting Carbon Savings from our Science Labs project involved the replac

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