The Green Campus concept movement is an effort to create campus infrastructure with an eco-friendly environment by implementing renewable resources, efficient use of clean water, environmentally friendly sanitation processing, and a zero-waste policy.
The infrastructure development with the Green Campus concept aims to meet the needs of Tri Dharma in an efficient, smart, healthy, comfortable, safe, environmentally friendly, aesthetic, and sustainable manner, thus supporting academic activities productively.
“UGM Green Campus is one of the implementations of UGM vision as a world-class university, not only in the context of education but also in the context of green building,” said Djoko Wijono during the UGM Center for Environmental Studies webinar on Saturday (5/6). Djoko is a lecturer in architecture and Vice Director of Project Implementation Unit UGM.
Realizing the UGM Green Campus is expected to create hard elements and soft elements. Hard elements include areas, landscapes, buildings, and green-certified infrastructure. Soft elements are Culture and Behavior, such as green campus management, green building courses, and installing green-certified buildings as educators.
“UGM has built a lot of environments with a Green Campus concept, and efforts to make it happen have been carried out since the 80s, although the Green Campus concept has not yet been initiated at the time,” added Djoko.
He also explained that the opportunity to make UGM a Green Campus was quite big. Currently, at UGM, 10 building constructions are using JICA loan IP-576 funding which hopefully will obtain Green Building certification, more experts in Green Building, and the PERMEN PUPR No. 2 of 2015 concerning green buildings.
“The 10 buildings with Green Building certifications are a stepping stone for UGM,” he added.
However, the challenge of realizing UGM as a Green Campus is also not easy. It needs an understanding of the Green Campus from UGM academics, the readiness of human resources as stakeholders in making policies and in technicalities, and the long Green Building certification process. Moreover, Green Building is not UGM’s main business and there is also an increase in costs of more than 7-10 percent higher than standard builders.
“It takes a harder, consistent, and sustainable effort to realize UGM Green Campus,” said Djoko.
Source: https://www.ugm.ac.id/id/berita/21206-upaya-dan-tantangan-dalam-mewujudkan-ugm-green-campus
