Abstract
Landscape and infrastructure are two main basic aspects which play a significant role for any universities in achieving environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. This paper describes the setting and infrastructure management at the Universitas Indonesia (UI) as a continuous effort towards green and sustainable campus. Some developments and improvements have been made during the last three years, such as forest city maintenance, development of pedestrian boulevard, and installation of road marks and traffics signs. In addition, infrastructures have been improved by replacing conventional lamps with LED type ones, development of real-time energy consumption monitoring system, green chilling system, solar photo-voltaic development, solar cooling absorption chiller system, air conditioning with VRF/VRV system, and preparation for green certified building. These improvements on campus setting and landscape are reflected on the UI GreenMetric 2017 results which ranked at #23 worldwide with the score of 957 out of 1500 total score for “setting and infrastructure” category. With regards to these achievements, some challenges and strong commitment in sustainability policy need to be implemented in the forthcoming years to maintain the UI’s vision to be a “world class sustainable university”.
Highlights
Massive development worldwide in recent years brings significant indications that the future of the world is very much depending on the environment status
There are many university networks on environment and sustainability that had been established at university, national, regional and global scale, such as Green Princeton, Sierranevada.com, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Sustainable University Network (SUN) of Thailand, Campus Sustainability Network in Japan (CAS-Net Japan), International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN), Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), Universitas Indonesia (UI) GreenMetric World University Rankings, etc
UI has a strong commitment to achieve green and sustainable campus which can be seen from several Rector’s Act issued on 2011, related to environmental and sustainability policy on green transportation, the use of bicycle and pedestrian, waste and toxic waste management, limitation on of toxic used for drinks and foods packaging, mitigation and adaptation of global climate change, reducing papers and plastic used, clean water conservation, and energy conservation program
Summary
Massive development worldwide in recent years brings significant indications that the future of the world is very much depending on the environment status. There are many university networks on environment and sustainability that had been established at university, national, regional and global scale, such as Green Princeton, Sierranevada.com, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Sustainable University Network (SUN) of Thailand, Campus Sustainability Network in Japan (CAS-Net Japan), International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN), Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, etc. Through such specific network, universities from developed and developing countries can share their best practice on sustainability policy and the implementation. As an educational institution with a world-class university perspective, UI has a vision to create an environment-based ‘green campus’ to more than its 50,000 inhabitants
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