Campus
Thursday 8 September, 2022
Self-driving vehicles are tested together at Chalmers campus Johanneberg
The delivery robot Hugo and the self-driving bus are back – together. From mid-September to May 2023, a line of self-driving buses will run on campus. And for a few weeks this fall, the delivery robot and the bus will also be tested together to see how they can work together on campus. Eighteen partners work together in the project SAT, Collaborative Autonomous Transport, which is financed by Vinnova through the innovation program Drive Sweden. The tests are also partially financed through SHOW, an EU Horizon 2020 project. The aim is to see how goods and passenger transport can work together in an urban environment. Between mid-September 2022 and May 2023, the line will serve the campus area. From mid-October, Västtrafik's line 68 will operate as a round trip from Chalmersplatsen, weekdays between 07.30 and 17.00. The trip is free of charge. Stops: Chalmersplatsen - Sven Hultin's Place - Library - Kemigården - Library - Chalmers Transport Center - Sven Hultin's Place - Chalmersplatsen During a few weeks in October, tests are also carried out where the self-driving vehicles interact with transport robots that originate from Chalmers Transport Central. Facts: Collaborative Autonomous Transport (SAT) Project duration: January 2022 – June 2023 Total budget: SEK 8 million Financier: Vinnova/Drive Sweden Partners: Akademiska Hus, Chalmers, Chalmersfastigheter, Ericsson, Framtiden Byggutveckling, Gothenburg City (traffic office), Gothenburg University, Hugo Delivery (project manager), Johanneberg Science Park, Keolis, Landvetter Södra Utveckling AB, Mölndala Fastighets AB, PostNord, Riksbyggen, Skanska, Tele2, Västtrafik, Wallenstam
Thursday 11 June, 2020
Halved energy supply to Chalmers
As part of its efforts to make the business completely climate neutral, Akademiska Hus aims to reduce the proportion of energy delivered by 50 percent from 2000 to 2025. Now, five years before the appointed time, that goal has been reached for the real estate company's buildings on the Chalmers campus area in Gothenburg. . Akademiska Hus has a zero vision for its climate imprint, which will be achieved through a climate-neutral internal business and real estate operations by 2025 and a climate-neutral project business by 2045. The climate goals are tough and, for example, the company needs to deepen cooperation with its customers, which has led to positive results at Chalmers. The amount of energy supplied to Akademiska Hus's premises in the area has recently halved compared to 2000 and is now below 120 kWh / m2. - We are constantly working to make our campus areas around the country even more sustainable and create energy-smart buildings together with our customers. Halving the delivered energy at Chalmers is incredibly gratifying and something of a milestone for us. Now we are taking additional power to come down to 110 kWh / m2, says Fredrik Nyberg, Energy and Technology Manager at Akademiska Hus. The achieved goal includes all delivered energy that the properties use, that is, the real estate energy but also the energy used by the university's operations in their teaching and research. Over the years, several energy improvement measures have been taken on campus to achieve halving, including the use of biofuels, distribution of self-produced district cooling, efficient heat recovery and installations of needs and presence-controlled ventilation and lighting, smart control and monitoring systems, and solar cells. Contributes to the universities' climate framework The initiatives are based on a common desire to cooperate with Chalmers and invest in sustainable choices. They can also be seen as a way for Akademiska Hus to contribute to the sustainability work that Chalmers conducts within the framework of the climate framework to which the majority of the country's universities and colleges have joined. The climate framework must, among other things, lead to higher education institutions reducing the climate impact from their own operations. - This reduced climate impact is very gratifying for us as well, and fully in line with the ambitions of the Climate Framework and the goals we have set in Chalmers' climate strategy for increased energy efficiency and clearer energy statistics for the business, says Fredrik Hörstedt, Chalmers vice president for recovery, with coordination responsibility for sustainable development. Another contributing factor to the fact that the amount of energy supplied for Akademiska Hus real estate at Chalmers has been halved is the company's new office and innovation arena A Working Lab at Johanneberg Science Park. The construction was propelled by 16 innovation projects with a clear climate and sustainability focus and the house is now certified according to Environmental Building Gold.
Wednesday 20 May, 2020
Akademiska Hus is investing in increased biodiversity
In order to create more attractive campus areas and contribute to a more sustainable society, Akademiska Hus implements a series of initiatives around the country that promote biological diversity. The result has positive effects for humans as well as animals and vegetation.As one of Sweden's largest park managers, Akademiska Hus places great focus on the outdoor environments that surround the 3.3 million square meter property portfolio. Through greenery and nature on campus, conditions are created for a stress-relieving and performance-enhancing living environment, while positive effects arise for animals and vegetation.- We want the country's campuses to be an asset for the entire society and we work to strengthen biological diversity both in our ongoing administration and when we develop new buildings or entire areas. In this way, we provide better conditions for both people, animals and insects to thrive on campus and in the ecologically sustainable outdoor environments that are created there, says Mia Edofsson, head of sustainability at Akademiska Hus.Small and large stakesWhen Akademiska Hus, together with higher education institutions, plans for the development of campus areas, this is done through long-term campus plans, where climatic, social and ecological perspectives are taken into account. In the systematic work, great focus is placed on protecting the green qualities and biological diversity - now and over time. Around the country there are a number of examples of investments made to promote increased species richness. These include, for example, insect hotels, hedgehog nests, beehives and nest boxes adapted for, for example, tits, starlings, tree crawlers, bats and butterflies. In several places, Akademiska Hus has reinforced the ecological values of the campus by creating meadows, cultivation plots, storm water ponds, water mirrors and permaculture gardens. A large number of buildings have been given green sedum roofs with space for bee batteries that provide nests for wild bees.Contributing to increased biological diversity has in some cases also been guiding in the development of completely new campus areas. In Stockholm, a coherent university area is emerging that stretches from Stockholm University in the north, via KTH over to Hagastaden with Karolinska Institutet in the west. The development of the Albano campus into a modern and competitive university environment takes place in harmony with nature and the goal is to become a role model in sustainable urban construction. As proof of the project's sustainability success, Albano is the first campus area in Sweden to be certified according to Citylab, a sustainability certification that does not only cover an individual building but includes an entire urban development project.At Albano, new water systems are being created to take care of stormwater, an improved microclimate and outdoor environments designed to strengthen the dispersal routes for plants and animals between the Nationalstadsparken and Hagaparken. Selection of biotopes and plants is based on the surrounding landscape and placed so that they support known, ecological dispersal routes. Through green roofs with large open roof terraces where students, employees and even the public have access, the university buildings become an integrated part of the park environment.- With efforts large and small, we contribute to increasing biological diversity on the country's campus areas. The work takes place in close collaboration with our customers and other stakeholders, where we work together for an even more sustainable society, says Mia Edofsson.Ask us!If you are interested in how we work with biodiversity on your campus area, you are welcome to ask your administrator!Read more!Read more about Akademiska Hus' sustainability work here:
