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1 Campus Sustainability Living Labs - A Global Community of Practice (what we preach) Leendert Verhoef! Delft University of Technology - The Green Office Van den Broekweg CS Delft - The Netherlands *L.A.Verhoef@tudelft.nl Utrecht HUMANE 22 April 2018! 2

2 Why? Verhoef, Creative Commons,

3 CLIMATE CHANGE: COMPLEX AND URGENT Verhoef, Creative Commons,

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5 EACH CHALLENGE: UNIVERSITIES ACTIVE A RACE ON AGAINST ALL THESE THE LEVELS CLOCK! SCIENCE OUTREACH COMPLEXITY UNIVERCITY OPERATIONS STUDENTS TIME Verhoef, Creative Commons,

6 ! CAMPUS TRANSPORT GREEN OFFICE HQ PROGRESS NEW FRAMEWORK: TU DELFT ! - IN 2030 CO2 NEUTRAL AND CIRCULAR CAMPUS! - FOCUSING ON THE UN SDG-S! TU DELFT: COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABILITY - IN LIVING LAB PROJECTS.! - SOCIETAL ENGAGEMENT! BUSINESS & SCIENCE: ENERGY NEUTRAL BUILDINGS Verhoef, Creative Commons, 2018 GREEN VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT 7 8

7 Our students! Verhoef, Creative Commons,

8 STAY AMBITIOUS & PERSISTENT! 10M CEO Influence (Eur/year)! 1M 100k 10k 1k Student ambitious PhD First Job Management good Sustainability Principles! Verhoef, Creative Commons,

9 Our Universities: Large footprint What? How many Global Share Students 213 million % Staff 20 million % GHG (CO 2 ) 0.7 Gtonnes 2 1.4% 1 EdStats, source: WorldBank / UNESCO Institute for Statistics, retrieved 19 march Verhoef, L.A., De Campus als Living Lab voor de Circulaire Economie, in: Nederland Circulair in 2050, ed. P. Luscuere, in preparation, est. Sept 2018 Verhoef, Creative Commons,

10 What? Verhoef, Creative Commons,

11 BUILDINGS AND SERVICES -> ZERO CO 2! CO2 emissions (kton/yr) Emissions 2015 Reduce area (m2)! Reduce area (BVO) Replace buildings! Replacement old buildings Renovate buildings! Renovate all other buildings Improve Waste! Improve food, nature, waste, etc Generate! Generate local power Verhoef, Creative Commons,

12 DARK EMISSIONS: CO 2 EMBEDDED IN MATERIALS! Human Resources! 5%! Waste! 1%! Water! 2%! Other! 6%! Travel! 10%! Office Buildings! 39%! Office facilities and Services! 16%! ICT! 9%! Tax! 0%! Research and Education! 6%! Consultancy! 3%! Ground/water/ road construction! 3%! 13

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14 How (process)? Verhoef, Creative Commons,

15 SUSTAINABILITY INTRODUCTION IN 3 PHASES! Sustainability development goes in three phases. TUD is now entering Phase III: Visionary Leadership and Transformation I. Grassroots / Awakening II. Executive acceptance III. Leadership/ transformation Source: Pavlova, L, Swinford, D., in: Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education (Volume 6), eds. Walter Leal Filho, 2017, Springer. This is an analysis of Univ Colorado, Harvard, Yale, Univ Mass, using Kotter s theory on change

16 Verhoef, L.A, et al, ShowHow: A flexible, structured approach to commit university stakeholders to sustainable development, Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education (Volume 6), eds. Walter Leal Filho, 2017, Springer, pp

17 SCALE UP & REPLICATE

18 EACH CHALLENGE: HOW TO INTEGRATE A RACE THESE AGAINST LEVELS?! THE CLOCK SCIENCE REGION COMPLEXITY CAMPUS/CITY CAMPUS/ BUILDINGS STUDENTS TIME Verhoef, Creative Commons,

19 SHOW-HOW APPROACH: FIVE PILLARS 1) Projects: Practical and opportunistic: launch a variety of projects 2) Real Estate Involvement: Introduce sustainability, circularity and innovation in real estate decision making process 3) Programmatic themes: build faculty-overarching programmes 4) Stakeholder Integration: intensely liaise and co-create with all stakeholders 5) Outreach: University as a catalyst in regional sustainability systems L. Verhoef, et.al., 2017, Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sust. Devel. in Higher Education 20 (Volume 6), eds. Walter Leal Filho, 2017, Springer, pp

20 ALL PILLARS IN COHESION Verhoef, Creative Commons,

21 PRIMARY FUNCTIONS! Research TU DELFT S/W + TECHNOLOGY - BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Interdisciplinary arena Education Valorisation (Campus sustainability) Verhoef, Creative Commons,

22 SUSTAINABILITY OFFICES KEY INTERVENTIONS! Research Make Connections New impulses Education Institutionalise & Transfer Campus sustainability Verhoef, Creative Commons,

23 What is a Living Lab? Verhoef, Creative Commons,

24 Art, Science or Sorcery?! 25

25 WAT IS A LIVING LAB?! Common in definitions! Complex problem ( wicked ), non-linear solving with innovation as a goal! Social/sustainable objective! Real life situation ( users ) and Cocreation / all partcicpants influential! Relfection and learning! A location/organisation + approach Verhoef, Creative Commons,

26 TYPOLOGY LIVING LABS! Co-Creation! Low High! FIELD LABS (INDUSTRY) SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH LABS LIVING LABS URBAN TESTS SITES Private Public! Source: Maas, T., J. van den Broek & J. Deuten, Living labs in Nederland, Rathenau Instituut,

27 INVOLVE ALL STAKEHOLDERS! Source: Steen, K.Y.G., Van Bueren, E.M., Urban Living Labs: A Living Lab Way of Working AMS Research report, AMS Institute, June

28 An Example: TU Delft Verhoef, Creative Commons,

29 CAMPUS AS LIVING LAB GEOGRAPHY / PROGRESS! TU Delft has many Living Lab lookalikes, distributed over the campus, in a variety of progress, started in the past years Solar PV Water Storage Roof Flood Proof Holland SenseLab D-Dream Hall ECHO (Zero-e) Green Village PULSE (zero-e) Coffee Cups TNew (BREEAM) Smart Floors Waste collection Smart Heat Geothermal Doublet Parking e-mobility Leasing Facades Student Farming Food Court In execution In preparation Dedicated Platform Verhoef, Creative Commons,

30 CAMPUS AS LIVING LAB RESEARCH THEMES! Innovation projects on themes: energy, water, smart offices, waste, food and dedicated innovation platforms Solar PV Water Storage Roof Flood Proof Holland SenseLab D-Dream Hall ECHO (Zero-e) Green Village PULSE (zero-e) Car as Power Plant Coffee Cups TNew (BREEAM) Smart Floors Waste collection Smart Heat Geothermal Doublet Parking e-mobility Leasing Facades Student Farming Food Court Waste and Food Mobility and Transport Dedicated Platform Energy Water Smart offices Verhoef, Creative Commons,

31 LIVING LABS IMPACT ON CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY! Not all living labs have large outcome for campus sustainability, but a good balance is productive: research, education and impact Solar PV Water Storage Roof Flood Proof Holland SenseLab D-Dream Hall NEC-1 (Zero-e) Green Village PULSE (zero-e) Car as Power Plant Coffee Cups TNew (BREEAM) Smart Floors Waste collection Smart Heat Geothermal Doublet Parking e-mobility Leasing Facades Student Farming Food Court Small (< 0,5%) Medium (< 2%) Large (> 2%) Verhoef, Creative Commons,

32 Living labs and Metropoles Verhoef, Creative Commons,

33 The UniverCity! 34

34 Urban Sustainability strategy matches Living Lab activity! Metropoles sustainability Active with Living Labs Santonen, T. et al., Cities as Living Labs Increasing the impact of investment in the circular economy for sustainable cities, EC report, 2016 Verhoef, L.A., Presentation Madrid City Council, Apr Verhoef, Creative Commons,

35 With whom (globally)? Verhoef, Creative Commons,

36 UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABILITY NETWORKS! ISCN: Global network with leading, technological Universities (MIT, ETH, KTH etc. ). TUD connected to ISCN, Stud. Morg., Copernicus All., IUSDRP, HOCH-N Name! Members! Geography! AASHE! 755! USA! GUPES! 790! World, UN related! IUSDRP! 112! World! ISCN (TUD member)! 80! World! GULF! 25! World! Copernicus Alliance! 22! Europe! IARU! 11! World (restricted)! HOCH-N! 11 -> 100! Germany! Studenten voor Morgen! 13! Nederland!

37 WHAT SUSTAINABILITY OFFICERS ARE LOOKING FOR! How to (keep) structure! How to approach Stakeholders : Real Estate! Faculty! How to achieve value outcomes?! How to manage Living Labs?! How to work together as Universities?! Source: Workshop Living Labs MIT/TUD, ISCN, 29 June 2017, Vancouver

38 PARAMETERS DETERMINE OF PARAMETER LIVING LABS SET(S) TO HELP OF LIVING LEARNING! LABS! SCOPE Education, Research, Valorisation and Campus Sustainability Integratiion and Multidisciplinary USER INTERACTION Users defined How many users? Active / Extent of participation Speed of feedback loops ORGANISATION & PROCESS Lead project, programme, or platform? Stakeholders, trigger Risks taken and managened OUTCOMES Education, Research, Valorisatiion and Campus Sustainability IMPACT IN THE WORLD UN SDG s Campus Sustainability Replicability OTHER APPROACHES

39 Data parameters (in progress) Verhoef, L.A. et al., Towards a learning system for University Campuses as Living Labs for sustainability, In: Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals - Volume 2. Springer, 2018 (in press) 40

40 Towards a common Framework 41

41 Three step process! I. Filter (general data) Does the idea warrant a living lab approach? All have defined and understood the desired outcomes for all II. Define (detailed data) All agree on the Living Lab set-up and participants III. Approve (Tools) All have formal committed to their (financial) support Verhoef et al, Campus as Living Lab, Verhoef, a Creative practicioners Commons, 2018 handook, in preparation,

42 Community of Practice! 1. Sharp and Clear Scope 2. Urgent problem 3. Create attractive Group 4. Take care of continuation / follow-up 5. Facilitate Development (of people) 6. Make group responsible 7. Act and reflect 8. Do new things 9. Identify and communicate results Andringa, J. and Reyn, L., Tien stappen voor een succesvolle CoP, ISBN/ , RVO Netherlands, 2014 Verhoef, Creative Commons,

43 Verhoef, Creative Commons, retrieved 20 april 2018

44 UNIVERSITY LIVING LABS CONTEXT! Metropolitan Coastal Heat Load Polyt. Madrid Univ. Hamburg MIT/Harvard KTH Stockholm TUD Sustainability in Education by Law Owns Real Estate?

45 The Future of Our Campusses Verhoef, Creative Commons,

46 Our Campusses 2018! Conventional Campus Modern Campus (reduced CO2) ) Energy-neutral Campus (scope 1 and 2 zero) Verhoef, Creative Commons,

47 Our Campusses 2030! Conventional Campus ) Modern Campus (reduced CO2) The Circular Campus (technical and biocycles) Energy-neutral Campus (scope 1 and 2 zero) Carbon-Neutral Campus (scope 1-3 zero) Verhoef, Creative Commons,

48 Our Campusses in 2040! Conventional Campus The Global Campus (all SDG s addressed) Modern Campus (reduced CO2) The Circular Campus (technical and biocycles) Energy-neutral Campus (scope 1 and 2 zero) Carbon-Neutral Campus (scope 1-3 zero) Verhoef, Creative Commons,

49 Our Campusses >2050! Conventional Campus Modern Campus ( ) )... Verhoef, Creative Commons,

50 Summary (highlights) Verhoef, Creative Commons,

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52 Implementing sustainability = using all available knowledge, methods, and technologies, now THANK YOU Structured Sustainability (Staff) Co-operation = Powerfull to speed up implementation Delft University of Technology - The Green Office Van den Broekweg CS Delft - The Netherlands *L.A.Verhoef@tudelft.nl Verhoef, Creative Commons,

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