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HKUST launches “Sustainable Smart Campus as a Living Lab”

Image Credits: HKUST, Press Release

According to a recent press release, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) launched the “Sustainable Smart Campus as a Living Lab” (SSC).

The living lab is an initiative that aims to transform the campus into a testing ground for learning, experimenting, and advancing smart and innovative ideas to address real-life challenges.

With a pledge of HK$50 million over the next three years, the University aims to identify sustainable, smart and cross-disciplinary home-grown HKUST projects and implement them on campus. Projects are collaboratively developed by faculty, staff, students and alumni.

By uniting HKUST’s quality research and innovative learning approaches, it is hoped that SSC projects will become a source of inspiration to the Hong Kong community, contributing to its development in becoming a world-class sustainable and smart city.

HKUST President stated that universities are microcosms of society. HKUST has been fully engaged in encompassing business management, the policy as well as science and technologies to make our campus smarter and more sustainable, and with this endeavour to help advise society’s transition to a future that is greener, more liveable, and human-centric.

SSC is meant to be a springboard for testing new ideas and approaches. Projects need not to include cutting edge technologies, nor do they need to succeed on the first try.  But by turning our campus into a ‘living lab’, we hope to instil a culture of learning from failure and self-initiated changes, which will eventually spread to a larger community beyond our campus.

Photo: The facial recognition tech for library services.
Source: HKUST, Press Release

Nine projects – ranging from enhancing library user experience through facial recognition technology to promoting positive and healthy behaviours through visual arts installations, to utilizing a real-time big data platform of people flow to facilitate effective planning – were selected as the inaugural round of projects.

Project champions staged exhibition booths in the Chia-Wei Woo Academic Concourse during the past week to share their ideas and gain feedback from the community. Implementation of the projects is spearheaded through HKUST’s GREAT Smart Cities Center (GSCC), in collaboration with the HKUST Sustainability Unit. The second round of submission of SSC project proposals is now open till March 22.

Photo: Smart Mini-grid of 100% Renewable Energy.
Source: HKUST, Press Release.

The Director of GSCC noted that via actual implementation of concepts and technologies on campus, SSC is an important platform to advance the underpinning science and technology, and sustainability principles for smart city development.

It was noted that since its conception, many industry partners and government agencies have explored collaborative opportunities with us. It is believed that SSC will contribute to transforming otherwise abstract smart city concepts to sustainable and smart realities.

The SSC campaign follows years of sustainability achievements at HKUST. In June 2016, the University adopted its first sustainability master plan – HKUST 2020 Sustainability Challenge, which set an aggressive set of performance targets for reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emission and wastage.

Through a combination of actions, policies, and changes in behaviour, HKUST has reduced over 700 tons of waste going to the landfill – a reduction of nearly one-third from the 2014 baseline, and has saved enough energy that two new buildings – Cheng Yu Tung Building and Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Kenneth Li Conference Lodge – were added to the campus with no net increase in energy consumption.

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