Key Topics:


- Understanding energy terminology, understanding bills, energy consumption and costs as a key  aspects of business success
- Learning how to improve energy efficiency, technical solutions and staff awareness.
- Identification of waste in a business process and identification of opportunists to prevent, minimise and reuse waste
- Benchmarking energy, waste, and water for the business so that the business can compare its own environmental performance on a regular basis against best practice standards.
 - Raising staff awareness on how they can improve business efficiency through adopting resource efficiency in the workplace
- Developing a resource efficiency action plan for the businesses including how to maintain  this plan and achieve objectives
- Demonstrate to business where there are financial supports for the implementation of resource efficiency 

Lecture Content & Learning Outcomes

- Scene setting for resource efficiency
- Energy: understanding energy terminology and consumption, understanding bills, learning how to  minimize costs
- Energy monitoring, measurement, benchmarking and auditing
- Learning how to improve energy efficiency showcasing Irish Case Studies from CTC managed programmes such as the Green Business programme
- Opportunities for renewable energy
- Water: Understanding consumption, bills, benchmarking - learning how to minimize water consumption and costs 
- Waste: understanding the waste management hierarchy, identifying where waste is produced, understanding bills, benchmarking, learning how to prevent and minimise waste and costs
- Raise staff awareness on sustainability issues.