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Developing a smart and sustainable campus in Singapore
Citation
Das, D., Lim, N. D., & Aravind, P. (2022). Developing a smart and sustainable campus in Singapore. Sustainability, 14, Article 14472. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114472
Abstract
Singapore intends to become a “Smart Nation” through the use of smarter technologies and sustainable means to enhance the quality of life of its inhabitants. Universities are also increasingly seen as places of innovation of new smart and sustainable technologies, provincializing ideas and debates; serving as a testbed for local experimentation. Hence, to determine the status of developing Singapore universities as smart and sustainable campuses, this paper first discusses the role of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative in relation to the development of smart and sustainable universities in Singapore. In particular, NTU’s development as a smart and sustainable campus. Secondly, a conceptual framework is developed to assess NTU as a smart and sustainable campus by understanding the prevailing dimensions of the smart city discourse. Through a detailed survey and ethnographic field study method conducted on NTU Campus, the study finds that the university has been rapidly deploying smart technologies to enhance students’ learning environment and university residents’ everyday quality of living through technology and sustainability initiatives. This paper contributes meaningfully to the development of smart campuses worldwide and brings an Asian university perspective to the existing research on smart and sustainable campuses.
Date Issued
2022
Publisher
MDPI
Journal
Sustainability
Grant ID
SNSF Grant No.173332
Funding Agency
Swiss National Science Foundation