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Thammasat Energy Saving

Each campus at Thammasat University will conduct routine efficiency check of everyday use equipment, air condition as an example. Thammasat has already signed Memorandum of Understanding with Provincial Electricity Authority (MOU between TU and PEA) for changing air conditions, and chillers, which were used more than 10 years, to the energy saving ones. In addition, Thammasat has also launched the campaign for staffs and students to turn off air condition between 12.00 and 1330 pm to save the electricity cost during lunch time.

Please see the related documents here:

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Reducing Carbon Emission from Within-University Transportation

Since 2012, Thammasat has launched the programme to reduce the number of cars and motorcycle used in university, and increased the number of sharing bicycles, bicycle routes, and length of bicycle lane.

In 2020, Thammasat has already got the new bicycle batch and also the service station for students and staffs convenience. This also includes the project of changing 20 shuttle buses service in Rangsit Campus from Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) to be Electric Bus in 2021 and also changing 10 daily diesel buses service in 10 routes to be 10 Electric buses in 2021.

Please see more details in the attachments

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Towards Higher Energy-Efficient Buildings

(Thammasat has got eight Energy Saving Building Design awards from Ministry of Energy since 2016. These awards have led some faculties and institutes to improve or refurbish their buildings to be higher energy efficiency.

Since October 2016, Thammasat has launched the solar roof top installation project for reducing the cost of electricity and increasing the ratio of clean energy used in Rangsit Campus. Thammasat has evaluated and found that once this project is complete, Thammasat will have the solar energy used in the Rangsit Campus up to 9.9 MW. 

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Energy-efficient renovation and building at Thammasat

One of the building that got Energy Saving Building Design awards in 2016 named Visit-Auksorn. This building was later built and designed under the concept of Thai Green Building Institute (TGBI). This led this building to have functions that fitting well with 8 categories of the TGBI.

(1) Building Management (BM) got full score of 3.

(2) Side and Landscape (SL) got 9 of 16 scores.

(3) Water Conservation (WC) got 4 of 6 scores.

(4) Energy and Atmosphere (ES) got full score of 20.

(5) Materials and Resources (MR) got 3 of 13 scores.

(6) Indoor Environmental Quality (IE) got 7 of 17 scores.

(7) Environmental Protection (EP) got 3 of 5 scores. And

(8) Green Innovation (GI) got full score of 5. In summary, this building have got 54 scores, which is in the range of “GOLD Class” presented by TGBI.

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Education for Students with Disabilities: Supporting Facilities, Services, and Innovations

Since 2003, Thammasat University has launched an admission program form students with disabilities, and two years later, the Disabled Student Services Thammasat University (DSS). Duty of DSS is to support students with disabilities in every way possible. The center is responsible for guidance counseling, student’s preparation, dormitory arrangement, and even implementing universal design in the university.

The guidance counseling session was not only given to TU students but also high school students with disabilities in order to promote the admission program. The center also facilitates high-school students with disability on the day of the examination to ensure that all of them have equal opportunities in the admission process.

Once the students are admitted, the center also hosts a meeting to prepare the newly admitted students with disability for the university education and living. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSS center provided the preparation session online for the students with disabilities. Moreover, the DSS also provides relevant trainings for the students, for example, a training on Microsoft Office for students with vision impairment.

Regarding accommodation, every students with disabilities who wants to stay in the campus will be arranged into the dormitory without any exception. Buddy or volunteer staff (by request) as well as assistive devices matching with their disabilities will be allocated to them.

Instructional materials for courses they take will be provided in the forms that match with their types of disabilities, e.g. braille instructional materials for students with vision impairment, audiobooks for those with hearing impairment. Regarding examinations, the service center is responsible for making examination materials ready and suitable with the students’ disabilities.

DSS center also push forward the implementation of universal design in buildings in the university to ensure the accessibility of people with disabilities to the university’s building and infrastructure. Starting with the left-over from budget for devices and equipment, the center have implemented over 20 universal design projects.

In addition to the DSS efforts, Faculty of Engineering also innovates “Plug & Go Wheelchair”, an innovation for people with disabilities and senior citizens. This innovation won 2 awards from the competition on innovation for disabled and senior people.

Please see more details of the service and related documents here:

https://thisable.me/content/2020/03/602

https://qswownews.com/thammasat-university-continuously-strives-to-offer-excellent-support-to-students-with-disability/
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Online-Preparation for Students with Disabilities during COVID-19 (TH)Download
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Training program on Microsoft Office for Students with Vision Impairment (TH)Download
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Admission program for under-represented groups: Application and Recruitment

In academic year 2020, Thammasat University offered admission programs specifically for two underrepresented groups, namely, (1) “White Elephant Program”: poor-but-well-performing students from rural areas of 38 provinces, and from Bangkok, and (2) “Deep South Program”: poor-but-well-performing students from three deep southern provinces. The admitted students were provided with full or partial scholarships. In total there are 17 faculties and colleges participate in this program and admitted these students.

The White Elephant Program provides 284 positions for rural poor students (from the 38 provinces) and 65 positions for urban poor students (from Bangkok). Fifty full scholarships and 100 partial scholarships are provided. For the Deep South Program, 9 positions with full scholarship are offered.

The students who would be eligible for this program must be from low income household (such as farming or wage laborer households, or low level government staff), whose total annual income (income of parents and those who pay for educational expenditure) is no more than 240,000 baht/year (7954.92 US Dollar).

The eligible students must also be registered in the 38 provinces as follows: (1) Central region (7 provinces) – Ang Thong, Singburi, Chainat, Lopburi, Suphanburi, Ratchaburi, Karnchanaburi, Prachuab Kiri Khan; (2) Eastern region (3 provinces) – Prachinburi, Srakaew, Trad; (3) Northern region (9 provinces) – Lumpang, Tak, Sukhothai, Nan, Phrae, Phayao, Uttradit, Chiangrai, Mae Hong Sorn; (4) Northeastern region (15 provinces) – Udorn Thani, Nong Bua Lampoo, Sakonnakorn, Yasothorn, Mukdaharn, Amnart Chareon, Burirum, Surin, Sri Saket, Nakornphanom, Kalasin, Mahasarakham, Nakorn Ratchasima, Khon Kaen, Ubon Ratchthani, (5) Southern region (3 provinces) – Ranong, Trang and Pattalung. For the Deep South Program, the provinces include Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani.

Application can be accessed through this website: https://www.tuadmissions.in.th/

Recruitment process was designed to ensure that the opportunities are given to the right students. A committee is formed, and considers the applications and supporting documents. The committee has to evaluate the applicants’ academic records, and their socio-economic conditions from the documents. Then the committee organizes an unannounced visit to the applicants’ home to validate the evidence provided in the documents. After validating both academic records and socio-economic status, Ordinary National Educational Test (O-NET) and General Aptitude Test (GAT) results of the applicants will also be considered along with other criteria.

Thammasat University has offered admission positions for the under-represented groups under this regulation and criteria since 2009.

Please see more details:

The White Elephant Program – 2020 (TH)Download
The Deep South Program – 2020 (TH)Download
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Thammasat Waste Tracking: August 2019 – June 2020

Since August 2019 – June 2020, Thammasat University has monitored the amount of waste generated by the university and how they were treated. Almost a year after implementing the waste tracking, the statistic shows that the total amount of waste generated by the university has decreased but increasing the proportion of waste recycled by Thammasat University Facilities is still a challenge.

Figure 1: Total amount of waste (Kg.)

Since August 2020, the total amount of waste generated by Thammasat university gradually decreased. In the pre-lockdown period, the waste was reduced from 314,587 Kg. in August 2019 to 253,718.50 Kg in February 2020. During the lock down, the amount of waste decreased dramatically as the university was operating at the minimal level. All classes were migrated online. After the lockdown, in May and June, the amount of waste resumed its level but still less than the February-2020 level. Therefore, the overall trend of the amount of waste is decreasing, which is positive from the environmental point of view.

Figure 2: Waste recycled by Facilities within Thammasat University (Kg)

Thammasat University has two waste management facilities, namely TU Recycle Bank, and TU waste facility. The Recycle Bank buys recyclable waste from faculties and university departments and then the waste is managed by an outsourced private sector. All other waste from within the university will be segregated by TU waste facility before sending the rest to the municipality’s waste facility.

Figure 3: Proportion of Recycled Waste to Total Waste (%)

According to the statistic, the TU Recycle Bank played more important role in recycling waste in Thammasat as every month from August 2019 onwards the Recycle Bank bought recyclable waste and managed them at the larger amount. Nonetheless, the proportion of waste recycled by the facilities in Thammasat University is gradually decreasing. This poses a challenge to Thammasat Recycling Facilities.

Interestingly, during the lockdown, the proportion (figure 3) and number of recycled waste (figure 4) spiked in March and April 2020. This is explained by the increase in the use of food delivery service during the lockdown for students in the dormitory and Thammasat Field Hospital. The university responded to this increase of waste from food delivery by implementing a project “Pinto Save the World”, replacing plastic packaging with food carrier (or Pinto) for food delivered to patients and medical staff in Thammasat Field Hospital, which may contribute to the reduction of recycled waste in May 2020. In contrast, the total waste sent to the municipality’s waste facility was greatly reduced due to the lock down (figure 4).

Figure 4: Amount of Waste, classified by waste management methods (Kg.)

The non-recyclable waste from the TU waste facilities will be transferred to the municipality’s waste facility. The facility then segregates the waste once again and utilizes the different kinds of waste for different purpose. For instance, food waste will be utilized as bio-fuel and organic fertilizer, the rest will be used for Refuse-Derive Fuel (RDF). No waste goes to landfill.

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Environmental policies extended to suppliers

Thammasat University ensures that the minimization policies are extended to outsourced suppliers and the supply chain, especially suppliers of equipment, stationary, and building contracts. The supporting evidence attached herewith is the contract for hygienic service and facility maintenance between Thammasat University and a private sector for buildings of medical science faculties.

As shown in the contract attached herewith, the company has to use environmentally friendly cleaning solutions which has to be tested by the university committee (p.10/29 and 17/29 – in the red square). The company is also required to have publicly accepted standard for pollution control in place for the whole period of the contract.

Regarding waste management, the company is obliged to arrange a proper garbage transportation from the faculties to an assigned waste management facility. The garbage has to be classified and managed properly (p.10/29, 18/29 – in the red square).

The similar requirements were applied to other contracts too, for instance, the contract for hygienic service and facility maintenance between Thammasat University and a private sector for common areas in Thammasat University Rangsit Campus.

Please see the document here:

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Contract-TU common area-RangsitDownload
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Extending disposable policy to outsourced services: MOU with CPALL

0n July 5, 2018, Thammasat signed MOU with 30 thai universities, in the name of Sustainable University Network (SUN), and CPAll, the largest supply-chain convenient stores (7-Eleven), for the initiative on reduction of single use plastics on campus.

The MOU was signed at Thammasat University, with representative from Pollution Control Department witnessing the signing. The initiative was planned to be tracked by mobile phone application, created by another private sector company (Kid Kid company limited).

The measures stated in the MOU are as follows:

  1. By default, plastic bag will not be given unless the product is hot. The store may sell plastic bags or prepare bags for borrow, or any other measures depending on agreement between the university and the company;
  2. Reducing number of plastic cups by 7-Eleven reducing 2 baht per cup to motivate customers to bring their own cups;
  3. By default, plastic spoons, forks, and straws will not be given to customers automatically. The cashier staff must ask customer first if they want one;
  4. Universities in this MOU and the company will stop using foam-based utensils in 7-Eleven and in-university canteen or restaurants.

Please see the MOU below:

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