Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. Through shaping our buildings, we hope to shape behaviour to drive down resource usage and wastage in decarbonising campus operations. In turn, our students and staff will be stewards of change for future generations.

In the transition towards a Carbon Neutral campus, we are determined to adopt an integrated strategy of good design to avoid energy consumption, appropriate application of highly efficient technologies and encouraging behaviour change of wasting less resources.

NUS provided opportunities for me to apply concepts from my major in subtle but impactful ways to foster behaviour change, such as implementing a behavioural experiment in NUS canteens to reduce food waste using portion sizing. I believe students would welcome more of such collaborations as part of their education journey.

We will build a climate resilient campus for the future by deploying campus-wide microclimate sensors to create environmental models to plan, simulate and monitor mitigation measures such as cool paint and greenery to improve the outdoor thermal comfort.

We hope to educate our students to prepare them not only for the workforce but a new normal of a fast-changing world often disrupted by global events. Partnering the NUS Zero Waste Taskforce enhances our curricula to imbrue in them an eco-conscious mindset and interdisciplinary skillsets to find viable solutions to achieve a Zero Waste campus.

As a member of the NUS community, the time is nigh for us to be well-equipped to shape resource-conscious habits and sustainable mindsets to tackle climate change. Our strategies towards sustainable campus infrastructure will continue to support the behavioural change and collective efforts needed to effect a meaningful and positive change towards sustainability.