Anthony Ziem - Saving Energy

Anthony Ziem –Final

Transcription by Alice Bell

VISUAL: Saving Energy. Working with the City of Kingston, PhD candidate Anthony Ziem is using his research to help the council save energy and find strategic ways to sustainably retro-fit buildings.

RMIT University logo.

AUDIO: Ambient electronic music plays quietly in the background through the duration of the video.

VISUAL: Video medium close-up of Anthony sitting in a modern lecture theatre, talking to camera.

ANTHONY: My name’s Anthony Ziem and I work for the City of Kingston.

VISUAL: Computer generated visual image of Australia as taken from space, zooms in to show the red outline marking the borders of the City of Kingston. Also located on the map is the Melbourne CBD.

ANTHONY: The City of Kingston as the same as other councils face the same problems of having buildings…

VISUAL: Wide-angle shot pans across the rooftop skyline of low-rise buildings.

ANTHONY:…that were built in an era where sustainability wasn’t a big thing as it is today. In the last

10 years, sustainable technologies have been evolving very quickly.

VISUAL: Video tighter close up of Anthony in the lecture theatre talking at an angle off-camera.

ANTHONY: The PhD is about finding a strategic way to retro-fit buildings.

VISUAL: Video wider close up of Anthony in the lecture theatre talking to camera.

ANTHONY: One to retro-fit in order to make them more useful for the community and then secondly is to find a way where we can save energy.

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Stephen Lewis, Manager, Community Buildings, City of Kingston.

Stephen stands wearing a shirt embroidered with the City of Kingston logo, in an office background with a large City of Kingston banner and a glass cabinet full of framed awards.

STEPHEN: My relationship with Anthony, like with all my team leaders, is one of support and partnership working.

VISUAL: Video zooms in on Anthony sitting at a desk working at a computer, the camera focuses on the animation on the computer screen showing an Air Handling Unit.

STEPHEN: He manages the maintenance team of the city that deals with building compliance, building safety and asset management into the future.

VISUAL: A video screen attached to a white brick wall shows a panel of CCTV camera video feeds.

STEPHEN: So he’s constantly looking at the condition of our buildings…

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Stephen talking to camera, as before.

STEPHEN:…constantly making sure that they’re compliant and ensuring that the appropriate documentation’s in place to enable that to happen.

VISUAL: Anthony stands at the far end of a corridor, fluorescent lights turn on as he walks through the passage towards the camera.

ANTHONY: Some of these buildings are coming to the end of its lifecycles so it’s very challenging finding a way on how to spend that

VISUAL: Video close up of Anthony in lecture theatre talking at an angle off-camera.

ANTHONY:…we’re not only providing a better service to the community but we’re also saving money.

VISUAL: Anthony walks towards bright orange industrial equipment, inspecting one of the panels.

ANTHONY: The big change for me was as soon as I had…

VISUAL: Medium close up of Anthony sitting in lecture theatre, talking direct to camera.

ANTHONY:… access to the databases that are here within RMIT

VISUAL: Camera pans across a computer monitor showing industrial graphics on the screen.

ANTHONY: ..and all the papers that are out there…

VISUAL: Medium close up of Anthony sitting in lecture theatre, talking direct to camera.

ANTHONY: …it’s just mind-blowing there’s so much information, there’s so much out there that the more I get to know things I feel the less I know! [Laughs]. It’s just amazing.

VISUAL: Video of Stephen talking direct to camera in the City of Kingston offices.

STEPHEN: Often within any level of government we have limited access at times to specialist skills and we’re always looking to develop and retain and keep skills.

VISUAL: Video of Anthony walking through a room of interconnected pipes checking equipment.

STEPHEN: Having somebody like RMIT on board with us to help build capacity within our organisation…

VISUAL: Video close up pans across a part of the industrial piping equipment that Anthony was inspecting.

STEPHEN: …is a great partnership and something we’d encourage others…

VISUAL: Video of Stephen talking direct to camera in the City of Kingston offices.

STEPHEN: …to work with and consider. Certainly from our side it’s been a positive experience in being able to, y’know, align all of our agendas…

VISUAL: Video of Anthony walking out onto the roof of an industrial building towards the camera.

STEPHEN: … to effectively bring that expertise into our organisation.

ANTHONY: The supervisors that I have…

VISUAL: Video close up of Anthony in the lecture theatre talking off-camera.

ANTHONY:… have been very useful. I meet with them every two weeks…

VISUAL: Video close up of Anthony sitting at his computer, the camera pans around from the back of the monitor show Anthony’s workstation. There are multiple computers in the background.

ANTHONY: …and they provide guidance. I can say that it’s not always smooth…

VISUAL: Screen shots of Anthony’s computer monitor showing graphics of building temperature measurements and cooling towers.

ANTHONY: …there is times where you’re sort of like lost and you don’t know where you’re going and yeah…

VISUAL: Video close up of Anthony in lecture theatre talking at an angle off-camera.

ANTHONY:…they sort of like help you out and suddenly you strike on something…

VISUAL: Low angle video shot of the signage on the front of a building that reads: CITY OF KINGSTON Municipal Offices then camera tilts down and across to Anthony standing outside the building on its steps.

ANTHONY: …you find a way of addressing…

VISUAL: Video close up of Anthony in lecture theatre talking at an angle off-camera.

ANTHONY:… the issues that you find while you’re starting.

VISUAL: Video of Stephen talking direct to camera in the City of Kingston offices.

STEPHEN: Clearly the alignment between the two organisations in terms of what RMIT’s trying to achieve together with what Kingston needs in terms of having access to leading-edge information around, particularly environmental sustainable design that Anthony’s leading on…

VISUAL: Time-lapse video footage of major road carrying a significant amount of traffic.

STEPHEN:...and that area is really important to us.

VISUAL: Video of Anthony standing on rooftop looking out across the neighbourhood, he turns towards the camera and smiles.

STEPHEN: Just the ability to access and tie-into the best research in the world…

VISUAL: Video of Stephen talking direct to camera in the City of Kingston offices.

STEPHEN: …through Anthony’s interest in those areas to work with other specialists and to bring that knowledge back to practical applications here at the City is really, really important to us.

VISUAL: RMIT University logo. www.rmit.edu.au

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