The Sixteenth International Conference on Green and Energy-efficient Building was held in Suzhou recently. At the conference, awards were given by the Green Campus Group of the Second National Green Campus Concept Design Competition for College Students. The entries submitted by two groups of TJU undergraduates from the Department of Urban Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, were both awarded. Second Prize went to “The optimization of the intelligent non-motorized traffic of green campus based on the 4M concept, making Tongji’s Jiading Campus the model” by CAI Yuxin, WU Zijun, FANG Yanjun, HUANG Lianhan. Third Prize went to the “Zero Waste Campus, research on garbage sorting and distributed disposal optimization of Tongji University campuses based on an ecological footprint assessment” by PENG Leyan, JIANG Lang, FAN Ye, DIAO Haifeng. The instructor of both award-winning works is LIU Chao, Assistant Professor of the Department of Urban Planning.
Vice President WU Zhiqiang with the instructor and award-winning students
The Second Prize winning work the optimization of the intelligent non-motorized traffic of green campus based on the 4M concept, was guided by the idea of "green transportation." Aimed at the actual transportation demand on the Jiading Campus, it proposed optimization from four aspects, which included more secure, more energy-efficient, more healthy, and more vibrant to create a well-structured, three-dimensional green campus. In the design, the team members summarized the common problems on the University campus, and put forward four categories of retrofit suggestions, such as “sort out the traffic flow and create a non-motorized core area,” “design a pedestrian-friendly street and fitness trail network,” “use new energy and build a green transportation network”, “open up flexible places and create a vibrant space network.” It also adopted modular paving technology, intelligent underground transportation, real-time data integration, and other intelligent technology to realize a replicable campus update model which is featured by multi-network, full coverage, and intelligence.
The Third Prize winning work, Zero Waste Campus, research on garbage sorting and distributed disposal optimization of Tongji University campuses based on an ecological footprint assessment, took the heated topic “garbage sorting” as an entry point. First, it investigated the entire life cycle of domestic waste disposal at Tongji University, and it evaluated the ecological footprint EF1 generated during the process. And then, it proposed an optimization planning scheme using distributed disposal, and evaluated the ecological footprint reduced by the optimization scheme to approach the design goal of "No Waste Campus." The work was aimed to inspire thinking about how to further improve and optimize the structure of the urban waste disposal system, including distributed waste disposal facilities. Also, it required applicable cross-departmental quantitative tools for decision-making to ensure the sustainability of garbage sorting and further realize harmlessness, weight reduction, and resource utilization of domestic waste.
With the theme of: Old Campus • New Vitality, the Second National Green Campus Concept Design Competition for College Students was organized by the Green Campus Group of the China Green Building and Energy Conservation Committee under the guidance of the National Architectural Education Steering Sub-Committee, the Urban and Rural Planning Education Steering Sub-Committee, and the Landscape Architecture Education Steering Sub-Committee. The competition attracted 5,086 students from 1,705 groups coming from 240 domestic and foreign universities to participate. In the end, a total of 19 groups won special prizes, first,second, and third Prizes.
Second Prize: the optimization of the intelligent non-motorized traffic of green campus
based on the 4M concept
Third Prize: Zero Waste Campus, research on garbage sorting and distributed disposal optimization of Tongji University campuses based on ecological footprint assessment
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