Campus
Friday 15 November, 2024
New Food truck at Ultuna
From Monday to Friday next week, between 10.00 and 16.00, you can now enjoy good food directly outside the door.Choose between Greek dishes, hamburgers or fresh salads - there is something for everyone! Warm welcome!
Thursday 17 October, 2024
Recycling of plants
Right now we are reusing plant material from Ulls väg to Maskrosen, this because of the upcoming light rail project.We are really happy to be able to give the material new life at Dandelion!
Friday 27 September, 2024
Cafe Skogsrået
Skogsrået Café opened its doors at Ulls Väg 28A during the month of August.Here we have combined Vegan Delight's store with a sustainable café concept.We use The Broker's coffee beans and offer really good coffee, hot chocolate, pastries and other unique drinks that we make ourselves.Here you will also find lunch and chocolate in quantities! Vegan and gluten-free are always available.
Tuesday 7 May, 2024
Try Piffl-box for free!
Until and including midsummer, you can try the Piffl box for free! Download the Piffl app and borrow the equipment available for a moment's activity. Piffl is a box filled with outdoor and sports equipment that you can borrow. When you are finished, just return the equipment in the same box.This text has been automatically translated, and some inaccuracies may be present.
Wednesday 7 September, 2022
Start of construction for Akademiska Hus student housing in Uppsala
The start is now underway for the construction of 170 apartments that will provide 350 students and researchers with accommodation close to the campus in connection with the Ångström Laboratory and Biomedical Center (BMC) at Uppsala University. The investment is an important contribution to reducing the student housing shortage that prevails in the city and which means that Uppsala was recently redlisted in Sweden's United Student Unions' annual report on the housing situation for the country's students in 34 study locations. The new student and researcher residences have been named Aquila, which is the Latin name for the constellation Örnen and Uppland's landscape constellation. The location in Rosendal, the emerging new district between Stadsskogen and Dag Hammarskjölds väg, means that Ångström and BMC are connected with commerce, services and other housing that is currently being developed in the area. There is also proximity to recreation areas and communication routes. Aquila will consist of 13,000 square meters of new construction divided into a high part of twelve floors and a low part of six floors. The building will be shaped like a U around a farm and with a beautiful wooden facade it will be woven together with the pine trees in the area. The project also includes a rebuilding of three older heritage-listed buildings of a total of 350 square meters, which will be used, among other things, for bicycle storage. - The demand for student and researcher housing is high all over the country, including in Uppsala. At Akademiska Hus, we are therefore committed to creating more housing on campus that is both sustainable and affordable. With more student housing, the universities' attractiveness increases and the campus areas become more lively and open, says Annika Stridh, property area manager at Akademiska Hus. Both shared accommodation and classic studios The new student and researcher apartments are built according to Akademiska Hus' housing concept Academic Living, which means that the block will contain a variety of different types of apartments - everything from classic studios with their own kitchens to apartments where up to six people share common areas such as bathrooms and kitchens . Sharing accommodation offers many advantages. It promotes social community and thus counteracts the feeling of loneliness that many students experience when moving to a new city. Shared accommodation is also positive from a sustainability perspective, as functions and surfaces are shared. - The student housing situation is strained in the country and it is positive to see Akademiska Hus being built for students and researchers in Uppsala. In SFS's latest housing report, it was found that the pace of construction needs to increase in order to meet the students' need for safe housing for the entire period of study, says Linn Svärd, chairman of Sweden's United Student Unions. Solar cells on the roof The building has also been equipped with solar cells which are estimated to produce 60,000 kWh of sustainable energy per year. The investment is part of Akademiska Hus' work to create locally produced renewable energy and to reach a zero vision for the company's climate footprint. The new student and researcher residences are expected to be ready for occupancy in 2024. Akademiska Hus is investing approximately SEK 360 million in the project.
Monday 25 April, 2022
Activity cabinets inspire joy of movement and outdoor stay on campus
There is now a brand new activity locker on campus. Here you can borrow tools for play and games. The pink cabinet is located adjacent to the year space on the green area behind Arrheniusplan 4. The cabinets are financed by Akademiska Hus and are available to everyone who stays on campus. How-to? Via the app "Piffl" you can see where there is an activity locker and what tools are available. For example, you can borrow tools and balls for 13 different sports such as volleyball, speedminton, spikeball and cub. The cost of opening the cabinet is SEK 10 and then SEK 10 / hour. Download the app and test! Search for "Piffl" on the AppStore or Google Play.
Tuesday 15 February, 2022
Akademiska Hus and SLU well on their way to saving energy 15%
At the beginning of 2021, SLU and the property owner Akademiska Hus set a common goal: to work together to make an energy saving of 15% of energy used on all SLU's campuses by 2027. After one year, the goal is already within reach. The starting point for energy savings is set at the 2019 level and includes electricity, heating and cooling. The measurement is made in kWh per rented square meter. The savings must be made without adversely affecting businesses and tenants. Since the collaboration began, energy consumption has decreased by 6.6%. In order to save such large amounts of energy, quite a few changes need to be made to the properties. To date, for example, inefficient fans and luminaires have been replaced with more energy-efficient variants in SLU's premises. Windows have also been replaced, cooling machines have been optimized and heating in the properties has been utilized and reused in a better way. By working together, Akademiska Hus and SLU have been able to take a holistic approach to energy work, in a way that would not otherwise have been possible. A success factor in the work has been the joint energy rounds that have been done together with the activities that are located in the houses. - It is important to point out that the reduction is not a pandemic effect due to the fact that there were few people on campus in 2020 and 2021, says John Johnsson, energy engineer at Akademiska Hus. The savings are made in close collaboration between SLU and the property owner The success factor in this project has been that SLU and Akademiska Hus have a good and close collaboration, where we have together identified what we can do to improve the properties' energy consumption. The energy work takes place in local working groups in Alnarp, Uppsala and Umeå together with a joint steering group. In addition to this, we review and negotiate our energy agreements to create incentives and profitability to be able to make long-term and sustainable investments together. The idea is not only that together we will reduce used energy, but also that the changes will create added value for the businesses through, for example, a better indoor environment through a more pleasant temperature or better lighting. - This work has had a greater effect than we could have hoped for. It will of course be more and more difficult to find energy-saving measures, but we are glad that we have found this form of work, says SLU's environmental manager Johanna Sennmark.
Thursday 15 April, 2021
An apple grove is growing here
Ultuna permacultureWork on setting up the food garden at the Arrhenius plan after winter hibernation is in full swing. The fence that has gone up around the area will be a support for the apple grove that is growing. See attached document for more information.If you want to know more about Ultuna permaculture, visit them on Instagram and Facebook. or take a turn down to the Arrhenius plane.
Friday 12 March, 2021
New air station on Campus!
Now you can pump the bike at the Ecology Center too!
Monday 2 November, 2020
Campus Ultuna receives the Green Flag Award for the fourth year in a row
In 2017, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences' campus Ultuna was the first to receive the Green Flag Award in Sweden. SLU and Akademiska Hus now receive the award for the fourth year in a row, thus showing that the award-winning green areas continue to develop. Ultuna continues to receive high marks for its green areas and its ambitious plans to further refine and refine. The knowledge park receives particularly good grades and is a place for both research and recreation. A big part of the Green Flag Award is also to get feedback on the work that is done. -I am proud to receive the award again because we have intensified the work of making the Ultuna campus a place for recovery, creativity and work. Not only for our employees and students but also for all local, national and international visitors to campus, says John Lööf Green, outdoor environment coordinator at SLU's real estate department. -I believe that the work with the campus leads to better studies, research and innovation, not least in the outdoor environment area where we have already been able to see concrete results in the form of alternatives to lawns. Now I hope that together with Akademiska hus we can take that work further in areas such as land construction, city trees and green roofs, John Lööf Green continues. -It is very gratifying that Campus Ultuna receives the Green Flag Award again. We see this as proof of our good collaboration with SLU, where we have together developed Ultuna into a campus at a sustainable cutting edge. The area is used by both students and researchers but is also an open, green asset for the whole of Uppsala - something that feels important at a time when we have to spend more and more time outdoors, says Marie Löwling, property manager at Akademiska Hus. The Green Flag Award has been awarded for over 20 years and is administered by Keep Britain Tidy, on behalf of the British Ministry of Local Government. The purpose of the Green Flag Award is to draw attention to and reward well-kept parks and green spaces and thus set a standard for the care and maintenance of recreational areas in the UK as well as in the rest of the world. In Sweden, there are only two facilities that have received this award; in addition to Campus Ultuna also Jonsered's gardens in Partille, which received its first flag this year.
