Sustainable campus improvement program design using energy efficiency and conservation

Faghihi, Vahid; Hessami, Amir; Ford, David N.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.040

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“…It is expected that, as sustainability champions, HEIs can influence the mindset of individuals and policymakers towards SD [38]. Furthermore, the contributions of HEIs towards energy efficiency and conservation through the design and subsequent development of sustainable campus improvement programmes are outlined in Faghihi, Hessami [39]. Concerning the incorporation of a sustainability ethos into the curriculum, scholars across different studies have shown how HEIs are transforming their curriculum across various disciplines towards being pro-SD in nature, through an assessment of the extant curriculum and subsequent modifications [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47].…”

Section: Heis and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling Organisational Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Implementation Performance in Higher Education Institutions: An Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM) Approach

Awuzie

Abuzeinab

2019

Sustainability

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Globally, higher education institutions (HEIs) have continued to record varied sustainable development (SD) implementation performances. This variance has been attributed to the presence of certain organisational factors. Whereas previous studies have successfully identified the factors influencing SD implementation performance in HEIs, few studies have attempted to explore the relationship between these factors and the influence of such a relationship on the management of SD implementation in HEIs. This is the objective of this study. Understandably, knowledge of such relationships will facilitate the development of appropriate frameworks for managing SD implementation in HEIs. Relying on a case study of a South African University of Technology (SAUoT), this study elicits data through a focus group discussion session. An interpretative structural modelling (ISM) focus group protocol indicating extant pair-wise relationships between identified organisational factor categories was extensively discussed. The emergent data was recorded, transcribed verbatim and subsequently analysed. The findings suggest that communication was critical to the prevalence of other factors, hence indicating its centrality to the effective management of SD implementation in HEIs. These findings will guide implementing agents in HEIs towards developing appropriate mechanisms for communicating SD implementation strategies.

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Section: Heis and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling Organisational Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Implementation Performance in Higher Education Institutions: An Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM) Approach

Awuzie

Abuzeinab

2019

Sustainability

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“…Taken all together, these interactions create the Revolving Fund Loop (R1 in Figure 1), a reinforcing feedback loop that maintains the Sustainability Fund and then eventually increases it after all of the projects have been completed. A more detailed description of this model structure was published by Faghihi et al (2015).…”

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Evaluating planning strategies for prioritizing projects in sustainability improvement programs

Hessami

Faghihi

Kim

et al. 2019

Construction Management and Economics

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Programs to improve the sustainability of building infrastructures often consist of project portfolios that need to be prioritized in an appropriate chronological fashion to maximize the program's benefits. This is particularly important when a revolving-fund approach is used to leverage savings from the initial projects to pay for later improvements. The success of the revolving-fund approach is dependent on the appropriate prioritization of projects. Competing performance measures and scarce resources make this task of project prioritization during the planning stage a complex and challenging endeavour. The current study examined the impact of different project prioritization strategies for revolving-fund sustainability program performance. A novel modeling approach for sustainability decision-analysis was developed using the system dynamics method, and the model was calibrated using a campus sustainability improvement program at a major university. The model was applied to evaluate the effects of five common project-prioritization strategies on three program-performance measures, across a wide range of initial investment levels. For the university case study, we found that the strategy of prioritizing projects according to decreasing benefit/cost ratio performed best. The research demonstrated that using a system dynamics model can allow sustainability program managers to make better-informed sequencing decisions, leading to a financially and environmentally successful program implementations.

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“…Evaluating the various activities regarding sustainability in a HEIs campus can be a simple task and is needed in order to be a pillar of strength for achieving a sustainable environment (Bantanur et al, 2015;Townsend and Barrett, 2015). Both universities and society benefit from improving campus sustainability since it provide benefits to the community and to the owners of the facilities (Faghihi et al, 2015).…”

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A sustainability evaluation framework for Science and Technology Institutes: an international comparative analysis

Lima

Lins

Pfitscher

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The concerns with the spread of sustainable practices in Higher Education Institutions are growing considerably due to the reach of these institutions in society and in local communities. This research develops and applies a framework that takes into account the social, economic and environmental concerns to evaluate to what extent Science and Technology Institutes are contributing to the spread of sustainable practices. It combines the measurement system from the Global Reporting Initiative, Public Administration Environmental Agenda and International Sustainable Campus Network guidelines. This research therefore highlights Science and Technology Institutes as a form of participatory management in sustainable practices that can be replicated in society and beyond campuses. From a questionnaire using the Sustainability Evaluation International Framework applied to Science and Technology Institutes, results show that the international Science and Technology Institutes selected (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) are characterized as "excellent", and three Brazilian institutions' performances by the same metric are evaluated as "regular".

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Sustainable campus improvement program design using energy efficiency and conservation

Cited by 68 publications

References 32 publications

Modelling Organisational Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Implementation Performance in Higher Education Institutions: An Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM) Approach

Modelling Organisational Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Implementation Performance in Higher Education Institutions: An Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM) Approach

Evaluating planning strategies for prioritizing projects in sustainability improvement programs

A sustainability evaluation framework for Science and Technology Institutes: an international comparative analysis

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