Environmental sustainability and circular economy – analysis of good practices on the example of the Birkenfeld Environmental Campus
author:
KAROLINA KURTZ-ORECKA, ANNA GŁOWACKA, WOJCIECH TUCHOWSKI
ORCID ID:
0000-0002-9843-5701, 0000-0002-4733-5970, 0000-0002-9962-1469
No:
05/2022 Instal p. 6-9
DOI:
DOI 10.36119/15.2022.5.1
Despite the fact that environmentally friendly solutions and technologies are widely known, their implementation and
technical space related to construction still encounter difficulties. Bringing information about the pioneers of
implementing sustainable energy and environmental management is therefore an important activity supporting the
energy transformation process in construction. The article describes the idea of an environmentally sustainable
university campus – Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Germany. It is the only university campus in Germany that uses
renewable energy sources on a scale that allows for the full offset of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere
resulting from the operation of the campus. The work was created as part of the INT190 MoRE project – Model
Region of Renewable Energy of the Usedom and Wolin Islands.
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About Authors:
dr inż. arch. Karolina Kurtz-Orecka, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-5701, dr hab. inż., prof. ZUT Anna Głowacka, https://orcid.org/
0000-0002-4733-5970 –Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie, Wydział Budownictwa i Inżynierii Środowiska;
dr inż. Wojciech Tuchowski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9962-1469 – Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie,
Wydział Techniki Morskiej i Transportu. Corresponding author: Anna.Glowacka@zut.edu.pl.