Climate Change
Reducing carbon footprints has become a mantra for sustainability.It is laudable to have large academic campus as close to carbon neutral as possible. Are there examples you know of, worth emulating?
We are working towards a carbon neutral campus.The campus is spread over 120 acres,with about 30 acres built upon.We have total rain harvesting system, waste water treatment & recycling and going in for innovative renewable energy applications,including installing bio-methanation plant.
We have just started a school for architecture studies which from its inception has adopted the Architecture 2010 Imperative for the course curriculum & facilities,apart from meeting the 2030 challenge which aims to achieve zero carbon emissions from construction activities.It would be wonderful to make the campus a demonstration and testing ground to create sustainable habitats.
Details may be seen in the Acharya Institutes website:www.acharya.ac.in
We are working towards a carbon neutral campus.The campus is spread over 120 acres,with about 30 acres built upon.We have total rain harvesting system, waste water treatment & recycling and going in for innovative renewable energy applications,including installing bio-methanation plant.
We have just started a school for architecture studies which from its inception has adopted the Architecture 2010 Imperative for the course curriculum & facilities,apart from meeting the 2030 challenge which aims to achieve zero carbon emissions from construction activities.It would be wonderful to make the campus a demonstration and testing ground to create sustainable habitats.
Details may be seen in the Acharya Institutes website:www.acharya.ac.in
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Well, depending on where you are located geographically, you can cut down a lot of energy spending by using heat-filtered sunlight for lighting, Absorptional refrigeration instead of condenser air conditioning etc. then come varoious solar and other hacks of renewable energy. it's good to give theseproblems to engineering students to solve, and there are some ingenious things made by the "Engineers without borders" international teams. for instance I remember that there was this off-grid Indian hospital where they used throw-away hard-disk plates to create Tesla turbines (I once mentioned it here on this site) and convert sunlight to electricity via solar heaters, and finally use that to cool and power the entire hospital (and those monsters take a lot of power to run).
however all these are ideas that need to be knows in the architecture department, I'm just an IT guy :)
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