HSUHK upholds the principle of sustainability in its campus development and endeavours to provide staff members and students with a quality working and learning environment. In this respect, its building and landscape design has incorporated innovative environmental ideas to promote campus sustainability with features including:
- Building a green campus and a healthy environment with quality interior spatial design, landscape design and acoustic design, eg, rooftop gardens, vertical planting, etc;
- Extensively using environmentally-friendly bamboo and sustainable forest products in the building design and as construction materials, eg, floor, wall panels, furniture, etc;
- Building staircases in the lobby area for promoting stair use to walk between floors and reducing reliance on lifts/escalators;
- Building with full-height windows for maximising the penetration of daylight;
- Adopting a district cooling system and a chilled ceiling air conditioning system for reduction of electricity consumption;
- Installing building management system to optimise the operational energy use;
- Setting up solar photovoltaic panels on the rooftops of HSUHK Jockey Club Residential Colleges (RCs) for providing renewable energy and offsetting part of energy use; and
- Recycling rainwater and greywater for irrigation purposes,
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Landscape design for green campus
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Acoustic bamboo panel wall
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Full-height windows to maximise penetration of daylight
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Heat recovery of pool heating system
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Chilled ceiling air conditioning system is adopted to save energy by 20%.
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Environmentally friendly bamboo widely used as building materials, furniture and wall panel.
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Set up solar photovoltaic panels for providing renewable energy
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Environmentally friendly bamboo widely used in furniture and curtain at hostel rooms
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Organic Farming at rooftop garden
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District Cooling System