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.

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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. 

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.