UPV/EHU Partner Status: Coordinator

UPV/EHU PI: Iñigo León Cascante

Project start: 10/12/2019

Project end: 10/06/2021

Brief description: 

University campuses, in many cases, can be considered as small cities that have a considerable influence on the environmental impacts of the territories in which they are located. The larger a campus, the greater its energy consumption and therefore the more natural resources it needs. This amount of material needed, cannot be produced by itself, so large amounts of resources are transported to be transformed into goods and services which are partially returned to the environment in the form of waste and emissions. Significant University campuses will be analyzed in each of the 3 territories. The environmental impacts, which are currently being generated, will be obtained through the use of non-renewable energies, and future reform scenarios will be considered through renewable energies. Scenarios will be studied and quantified where the use of wind energy, forest biomass and photovoltaic energy will allow reducing the energy of non-renewable origin consumed. The project will be based on the NEST tool, a quantitative environmental impact assessment tool for urban projects with a Life Cycle perspective and that allows a comparison of scenarios.