Research interests
Corporate environmental management.
Environmentally sustainable facilities management
Biography
Bart retired as the ANU Associate Director, Facilities and Campus Operations in 2011. In this role he had senior management responsibility for campus environmental programs, including the developement of ANUgreen (the University corporate environmental program). Bart was Team Leader of the International Alliance of Research Universitie Sustainability Officers Group (www.iaruni.org) and is currently the Co-chair of the Sustainable Building Design and Operations working group - International Sustainable Campuses Network. Bart was also Vice President of the Tertiary Education Facilities Managers Association of Australasia.
As a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Bart's research focuses on the performance of sustainably designed buildings and infrastructure, and the social learning impact of design and operations on behavioural change.
Bart has published peer reviewed papers and book chapters on corporate environmental management, as well as writing articles for various publications
Researcher's projects
Bart is currently researching the impacts of Covid restrictions on corporate environmental management programs and company/community attitudes.
Publications
- Young, C, Reid, J & Meehan, B 2015, 'Taking Action: researching an innovative pedagogy for an aesthetic visual approach to environmental issues', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 16, pp. 64-72.
- Meehan, B 2013, 'Creating change: building an environmentally sustainable campus', in Ariane Konig (ed.), Regenerative Sustainable Development of Universities and Cities: The role of Living Laboratories, Edward Elgar Publishing, USA, pp. 107-122.
- Carpenter, D, Mitchell, B & Meehan, B 2006, 'Planning for biodiversity: a challenge for universities', in Walter Leal Filho and David Carpenter (ed.), Sustainability in the Australasian University Context, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Freiburg, pp. 101-204.
- Reid, J, Carpenter, D & Meehan, B 2006, 'Art for earth's sake: creative and interdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability in the tertiary sector', in Walter Leal Filho and David Carpenter (ed.), Sustainability in the Australasian University Context, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Freiburg, pp. 81-90.
