Transcript AECOM PowerPoint Template - Severn Wye Energy Agency

Pathfinder Kick-off Meeting
Introduction to AECOM & Sustainable
Living Research Programme
Simon Hartley
1st March 2011
Content:
• General introduction to AECOM
• AECOM Sustainable Development Group
• Project Team Members
• Research Project Experience
• Overview of AECOM Approach to Sustainable Living
• AECOM’s Project Role & Responsibilities
Introduction to AECOM
• Global provider of professional technical and management
support services involved in 6/10 of the world’s largest
infrastructure projects
• Market leader in the delivery of:
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Building & Civil Engineering
Transportation
Design & Planning
Corporate: Research & Intelligence
Water
Environment
Cost Consultancy & Programme Management
Energy services
Sustainable Development Group.
• Over 51,000 highly capable, professional staff, in 740 offices,
spread over 100 countries – with approximately 110 staff based
in Cardiff
AECOM SDG / R&I
• R & I comprise approximately 100 specialists with
experience of conducting different types of research
with variations of emphasis which broadly mirror
AECOM service offering e.g. water; energy, etc
• SDG SW & Wales Team comprise 13 staff with
expertise in sustainable energy; behaviour change;
carbon management; building energy modelling;
ventilation; education; policy development; Part L/F
Building Regulations; Environmental Management &
GIS;
Sustainable Living: Project Team Members
Welsh Assembly Government
SWEA
Richard Redfern Research Director
AECOM Project
Team
Simon Hartley
Project Director
Research &
Intelligence
Mark Morant Project Manager
SDG
Programme
Design
Evaluation
Framework
Analysis
Jeremy Hardin
Steve Tarry
Action Research
Data
Edyta Redfern
Samantha Lanham
AECOM SDG
• The nature, level, diversity and scale of AECOM
projects means we have experience of undertaking
practical climate change mitigation & research
projects in all sectors. Examples include:
– Domestic Energy
• Great British Refurb, Micro CHP trials
– Transport
• Freight Best Practice Programme; Safe Routes To Schools
– Food
• London Borough Councils Food Strategies
– Water
• Domestic water consumption and CSH research;
investigation into rainwater harvesting and SDS
Research Project Experience
• Domestic Energy
Evaluation of Whole
House Assessment
– Welsh Assembly
Govt
The Research Programme
• Phase I: Short term
– Engagement
– Identify possible Case Studies
– Identify data sources
– Set up evaluation processes
– Identify Indicators of success (and possibly failure)
• Phase II: Medium term
– Data collection
– Look at inputs and outputs
– Review evaluation approach
• Phase III: Longer term
– Interim
• Look at outcomes and impacts
• Review research approach
– Final
• Look at outcomes and impacts
• Address specific research questions
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase One: to 31 March 2011
• Scoping phase / study
• Establish research objectives and questions
– CO2e; approaches to community action; evaluate ‘models’ of
community based interventions, delivery by the programme
management team; assess role of POs.
• Systematic research review
– What are appropriate / likely projects to be evaluated? Which
groups able and willing to set targets and measure progress?
• Development of scheme typologies and case study options
– Projects look at different sectors, 18 projects in different locations,
• Identification of key stakeholders
– POs, local authorities, community groups, practitioners, business,
Research Questions in terms of:
• impacts: What levels of GHG emission reductions have been achieved?
• behavioural change contributing to outcomes: What changes in
behaviour have been generated, how and why? Are these sustainable?
• community engagement: which project theme generated the greatest
level of community engagement and why?
• penetration and sustainability: How does the delivery of impacts of
different approaches vary between locations, across socio-economic
groups and why?
• evaluating the different ‘models’ of community based project
interventions: Which models / approaches are the most efficient in terms
of costs/benefits?
• assessing delivery of the pathfinder project programme by POs and
management team: What role did PO have in accelerating community
projects / what approaches acted as barriers to meaningful dialogue and
collaboration?
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase One: Up to end of March 2011
• Develop process and impact evaluation framework
• Research indicator scoping
– What are appropriate indicators?
• Dataset review
– Are datasets available to monitor and measure?
• Process evaluation scoping and definition
– What is community action? What processes will be analysed
(PO interventions; types of community group structures, etc?
• Theory of change outlines prepared
– Develop robust framework to explore the logic behind what
happens in practice reflecting specific nature of initiatives
taken
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase One: Up to end of March 2011
• Pathfinder Officer Preparation
• Develop a matrix for case study identification
– Each PO has 3 No. projects; WAG to select projects for detailed
research; all to contribute ideas regarding project selection
– Typology of initiatives according to, for example:
• objective; target population; scheme ownership; location
• Develop pro-formas for case study scoping & data collection
– All s/holders to participate, will be driven by need of community
project, researchers and additional WAG/LA work-stream
– Precise tools to be developed
• Prepare training materials and undertake initial training
– Will provide detailed and focused research training
Monitoring and Recording
• Following initial engagement with Stakeholders
– Focus will be on collating basic ‘headline’ data for each potential case study
(within a long list of, say, 120)
– This will enable actual case studies to be selected for evaluation
• Criteria to be determined to facilitate the selection of final case
studies
– Criteria should allow comparisons to be made across candidate case studies
– Should aim for a representative cross section of case studies, covering all
relevant sectors and differing approaches to community involvement, project
development and delivery
• More detailed data will then to be recorded for selected case
studies, to fully define and characterise the case study in
advance of the evaluation phase
• The actual basic data to be collated will reflect the nature of the
initiative and the criteria used for choosing between candidate
case studies:
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase Two: April 2011
• Primary Data Collection (by Pathfinder Officers):
• Collation of stakeholder communications, contacts and outputs
– Descriptions of activities and reflect upon:
• what went well, didn’t go well and why not
• what should be done differently next time and other information
• Community engagement records
– Categorisation of initiatives:
• provides a focus for data collection
• assists when reviewing the transferability of findings about similar
types of interventions
• Case study scoping and delivery records
– case studies provide examples of inputs (intervention) /outputs
(initiatives delivered); evaluation will need to record, monitor and
evaluate each of these accurately
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase Two: April 2011
Theory of Change (prepared in liaison with Pathfinder
Officers)
• Draft intervention mapping prepared (one for each type/sector
of investment transport, energy, waste and water)
• Process mapping of roles and responsibilities
Ongoing Support to Pathfinder Officers
• Quarterly evaluation/research meetings
• Ad hoc training and support
• Dataset collation
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase Two
Action Learning Group 1,
Autumn 2011, 2 in
Spring/Summer 2012,
and 3 Autumn 2012 (in
phase 3)
• Identify scope of meeting
• Identify presentations,
working group topics, prepare
material / facilitate sessions
• Prepare write up & feed into
interim analysis of short term /
interim outputs and outcomes
including collation of PO
outputs
Rationale
Feedback
Objectives
Evaluation
Appraisal
Monitoring
Implementation
Overview: AECOM Approach to ‘Sustainable Living’
Phase Three:
Validate Theories of Change
• Undertake cross-cutting analysis of change
• Test hypotheses generated in Phase 2
• Prepare updated mapping by investment sector
Ex-Post analysis of data
• Develop compendium of research
• Generate GIS based analysis
• Identify short term behavioural changes
AECOM: Project Role & Responsibilities
Thank You - Questions
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