Campus og studiemiljø - Bygningsstyrelsen

morgendagen / tHe Future
studerende hjælper hinanden med at
begrønne et tag på Harvard universitet.
/ students help each other greening a roof at
Harvard university
Reform finance and accounting practices to
ensure that both capital and operating costs are
considered in financial decision-making processes.
This reform alone will remove one of the
most significant barriers to achieving the
optimal energy efficiency performance of
campus buildings and onsite campus energy
systems. One approach is the adoption of
life cycle costing (see www.lifecyclecosting.
org for a definition) in all financial decisionmaking
processes that involve ongoing
operating costs. In that way, all significant
financial decisions take account of the true
cost impact beyond just the up-front cost.
Allow for resource conservation-related cost
savings to be tracked and reinvested in additional
sustainability staff and campus sustainability
activities with long payback periods and
carbon offsets.
This reform would open the way for significant
cost neutral environmental impact
reductions across the campus. On the large
scale, many campuses would also be able
to achieve cost neutral climate neutrality
by adopting an accounting and finance
framework for tracking and reinvesting
conservation savings over long periods of
time. Furthermore, the challenge of finding
funding for dedicated sustainability staff
can be resolved by tracking and reinvesting
savings that result from the work of these
staff, setting up a positive feedback loop
between increased staff capacities and increased
conservation savings.
Adopt governance structures and accountability
frameworks that institutionalise ongoing
reporting responsibilities across the campus.
Common accountability frameworks include
green building certification systems,
greenhouse gas reduction commitments
and annual waste and recycling reports. Accountability
frameworks are most effective
when there is wide scale consultation in
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