Environmentally friendly movements are a famous trend in society that are permeating into people’s daily lives, awakening them from the ignorance of serious environmental issues. In conjunction with this trend, universities have also started to show some eco-friendly efforts by constructing eco-sound buildings and promoting environmental movements.
According to Professor Park Su-jin (
The first-marked environment friendly movement among campuses in was started by
Since 2007, Hanyang University (HYU) has also been proceeding with an environment friendly movement under the slogan of “Clean Hanyang, Wonderful Campus.” “A team of ‘environment protectors,’ cleans the campus and also examines environmental conditions of our university. Cameras are given to them in order to report problems around the campus,” said Won Chang-hee, a faculty member of the Department of Property at HYU. Also, HYU promotes a “clean campus” system that is supported by the University News Network. The “clean campus” system is based on electronic devices such as an LCD Media Board (LMB) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) that show advertisements and announcements, replacing the past messy wall posters and banners. “This ‘clean campus’ system is definitely eco-friendly because it reduces waste in resources, including paper,” said Ku Ji-won (
Also many universities construct eco-sound buildings on their campuses with renewable resources.
Ewha has also strived to make its campus more environmentally friendly through the brand new construction of Ewha Campus Complex (ECC). According to Professor Kang Mi-seon (Architecture), there are three main systems in ECC, including cooling radiator, thermal labyrinth and concrete core activation. Cooling radiators allow natural underground water to circulate, so the whole building can maintain a cool temperature. Thermal Labyrinth passively cools and ventilates the building by allowing free circulation of the air. Lastly, a concrete core activation works through a pipe in the ceiling of the building which controls the temperature with ground water.
Moreover, ECC provides vast parking lots underground as well as a greenish. “The garden is not only a rest place, but grass and soil work as a heat insulator,” said Kang. Due to these aspects, the school can greatly save its energy cost. “We expect 20 to 30 percent decrease in energy cost as a whole by operating the system of ECC,” said Kang.
Like Ewha’s underground Campus,