Monterrey Tec s Sustainable Development (SD) Programme*

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1 Monterrey Tec s Sustainable Development (SD) Programme* Don Huisingh, Francisco J. Lozano G. and Mónica Delgado F. Monterrey Tec, (ITESM) Monterrey, México don.huisingh@iiiee.lu.se, fjlozano@itesm.mx, monica.delgado@itesm.mx

2 Sometimes, When Embarking Upon a New Area, One Is a Bit Confused. Perhaps, Like One Feels When One Looks at the Next Picture.

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4 Summit on Environment and Sustainable Development Río de Janeiro 1992 AGENDA 21 Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg 2002 RIO + 10

5 Summit on Environment and Sustainable Development Río de Janeiro 1992 AGENDA 21 Changes in Perception There is a growing awareness among some faculty members that environmental conditions continue to get worse. Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg 2002 RIO + 10

6 Monterrey Tec s Sustainable Development Program. A Campus that is distinguished by actively participating in Sustainable Development, as well as being a Leader in educating Professionals with a clear sustainability consciousness and the importance that lies in the connection between disciplines of human knowledge

7 Monterrey Tec s Mission Statement. "The Monterrey Institute of Technology University System has the mission of educating individuals who are committed to the social, economic and political improvement of their communities, and who are internationally competitive in their areas of speciality. Carrying out research and extension relevant to Mexico's sustainable development is also part of the Institute's mission"

8 Summit on Environment and Sustainable Development Río de Janeiro 1992 AGENDA 21 Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg 2002 RIO + 10 Monterrey Tec s RESPONSE is to implement Sustainability is part of Tec s central mission & is being implemented in: Undergraduate & Graduate Courses Research Publications Campus Operation Programmes

9 Monterrey Tec s SD Program Is Based Upon Its Policy and Upon the Following Declarations. Talloires Declaration 1990 Halifax Declaration 1991 Swansea Declaration 1993 Copernicus Charter 1994 Thessaloniki Declaration 1997 Earth Charter 2000 Lüneburg Declaration 2001 Hermosillo Declaration 2001

10 Monterrey Tec s Sustainable Development Program. 1) Weave SD concepts, as the "Golden Thread," throughout courses and curricula. 2) Build and Operate the physical facilities, based upon SD criteria 3) Ensure that SD is incorporated, as the contextual framework, for disciplinary and multidisciplinary research 4) Co-ordinate and integrate SD into Tec's Societal Outreach 5) Prepare and disseminate, internally and externally, regular reports of Tec's SD, plans, programs and progress 6) Support, plan and hold "High Level Conferences" on SD and Conservation.

11 Monterrey Tec s SD Course and Curriculum Implementation Program.

12 Weaving SD Concepts, As the "Golden Thread," Throughout Courses and Curricula. 1) Engineering and Architecture Division: Four courses at the undergraduate level and One at the graduate level have already been infused with SD. Examples: a) Eco-efficient Process Analysis. World Business Council for SD criteria for Ecoefficiency and its application to the Chemical Process Industry. b) Ecology and SD. Addressing three dimensions of SD, as well as environmental issues. 2) Administration, Management and Finance Division: Ten courses at undergraduate level have been infused with SD. Examples: a) Economic Development. Sustainability as part of a multidimensional process. b) Natural Resources Economics. It emphasises the inter-relations among the efficient use of natural resources and dynamics of supply, renewal, consumption and species extinction.

13 Weaving SD Concepts, As the "Golden Thread," Throughout Courses and Curricula. 3) Electronics, Computation, Information and Communication Division: One course at the graduate level is now infused with SD. Example: a) Leadership for SD. Compulsory course for all graduate students. Increasing awareness and commitment to act, as agents of change when facing ecological, economic and social challenges. 4) Graduate School of Business: Twenty three courses at the graduate level have been infused with SD. Examples: a) Value Chain Management. What does it mean to be green?, ISO 14000, Waste reduction in inventories. b) Strategy, Structure and Processes in Organisations. Environment and Business leadership, Socio-economic impact assessment. c) Financial Engineering. Carbon dioxide and nitrates, Trading permits, Use of real options to assess ecological projects. strategy. d) Technology Development and Competitiveness. Strategies for Clean technology development, effects of environmental decisions on technology

14 Operate and Build the Physical Facilities, Based Upon Sustainability Criteria GJ Energy Committee s commitment and energy savings efforts resulted in their being awarded the 1995 National Prize for Energy Saving. Total Annual Electrical Energy Consumption at the Monterrey Campus (GigaJoules per annum) 120, ,000 98,628 92,818 97,349 91, , , , ,718 80,000 60,000 58,698 40,000 20,

15 Operate and Build the Physical Facilities, Based Upon Sustainability Criteria Student number Students in Monterrey Campus 20,000 19,000 18,000 17,000 16,000 15,000 14,000 13,000 12,000 11,000 10,000 9,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 E-90 A-90 E-91 A-91 E-92 A-92 E-93 A-93 E-94 A-94 E-95 A-95 E-96 Year A-96 E-97 A-97 E-98 A-98 E-99 A-99 E-2000 A-2000 E-2001 A-2001 E-2002

16 Operate and Build the Physical Facilities, Based Upon Sustainability Criteria GJ/person Electrical Energy Consumption per Student at Monterrey Tec

17 Operate and Build the Physical Facilities, Based Upon Sustainability Criteria Comparative Energy Consumption in GigaJoules/year/ Student Electricity Energy Consumption per student Heating FH Zittau/Görlitz Utrecht Univ. Univ. Aut. Madrid Lüneberg Univ. Budapest Univ Ruhr-Univ. Bochum Humboldt-Univ. Berlin FH Aachen Tec, Monterrey GJ/student (Data for European Universities taken from the Low-Energy Project in Copernicus Campus (

18 GJ/student Operate and Build the Physical Facilities, Based Upon Sustainability Criteria Natural Gas Consumption per Student at Monterrey Tec ( )

19 m 3 /person Operate and build the physical facilities, based upon Sustainability criteria Water Consumption, per Student, at Tec from 1998 to

20 kg Operate and build the physical facilities, based upon Sustainability criteria Total Quantities of Aluminium recycled from the Tec Campus from ,500 3,300 3,000 2,500 2,445 2,216 2,720 2,125 2,112 2,000 1,653 1,500 1,111 1, *From 1999 to 2001 data includes material recovered in students residences

21 kg Operate and build the physical facilities, based upon Sustainability criteria Total quantities of paper recycled from Tec Campus from ,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10, ,953 89,142 87,128 82,653 77,211 67,310 64,600 43,500 45,260 40, *From 1999 to 2001 data includes material recovered in students residences

22 Sustainability as contextual framework, for disciplinary and multidisciplinary research Research projects by the Centre for Solar Energy Solar air-conditioning and refrigeration by using an air-cooled absorption system with evacuated heat pipes. Fully independent solarpowered refrigeratorfreezers.

23 Sustainability as contextual framework, for disciplinary and multidisciplinary research Some results US Patent 5,666,818: Solar Driven Ammonia-Absorption Cooling Machine. Several hotels and hospitals in Mexico use solar energy for water heating with our technology.

24 Co-ordinate and integrate Tec's Societal Outreach. Friends of Nature (Amigos de la Naturaleza) extra-curricular environmental training program FOMCEC Desarrollo de la Cultura Ecológica (Fostering Ecological Culture) ADIAT (Mexican Associaton of Applied Research and Development Executives) Participation in the Technical Committe on Sustainable Development

25 Produce and Disseminate, Regular reports of Tec's SD, plans, programs and progress. Revista de Calidad Ambiental (Environmental Quality Magazine). ITESM. Centro de Calidad Ambiental Bimonthly magazine. Forum and publication for the layman. Acción Jurídica para el Desarrollo Sostenible (Judicial Action for Sustainable Development). ITESM. Centro Jurici Impartial promotion of environmental legislation and fostering the rule of law regarding environmental issues in Monterrey

26 Plan and Hold "High Level Conferences" on SD and Conservation. Two Keynote Conferences per year. Preparatory Course for those attending the Keynote Conference. Project Contest before the Conference, where student teams from various Universities are invited to participate.

27 Campus Sustainable Development of Performance Indicators Measuring progress towards sustainability requires generating suitable performance indicators that take into account the full life cycle issues of products or activities.

28 Capacity Building Through Education and Communication that Promotes Change. Change towards Sustainability is best achieved through capacity building that is based on education with a complete commitment to curricular experiences that foster development of the student s skills in interdisciplinary teamwork and effective communication.

29 Performance Indicators Faculty Capacity Building Presently, Tec is offering 39 courses with SD as the golden thread. A first educate-the-educator s course was offered in July 2002 to 28 educators from architecture, international affairs, civil and chemical engineering.

30 Performance Indicators Faculty Capacity Building Educate-the-Educators courses will be offered throughout the autumn of 2002 and throughout 2003.

31 Performance Indicators Campus Physical Plant Operations Electrical energy per capita consumption for 2001: 6.24 GJ/student In the last four years there has been an average of 11% per capita energy consumption decrease.

32 Performance Indicators Campus Physical Plant Operations Natural Gas consumption, per capita consumption for 2001: 1.58 GJ/student During the last five years, there has been a decrease of 14 % per capita consumption.

33 Performance Indicators Campus Physical Plant Operations Water consumption per capita for 2001: 31 m 3 /student. In the last four years there has been a decrease of 16 % per capita consumption.

34 Performance Indicators Maintaining Life Support Systems, Structure and Function Understanding Life Support Systems, implies that protecting ecosystem health is critical to the planet s life. It is a basic and fundamental condition for Sustainability.

35 Performance Indicators Maintaining Life Support Systems, Structure and Function Tec s Arboretum Plant areas are designed to provide proper landscaping, as well as to provide learning opportunities about eco-system sustainability. Theme gardens are being designed to help maintain the local floral & faunal species diversity as well as to support teaching, research & community outreach.

36 Sustainable Campus Operation. Activities being done New Buildings. Generating Building Design criteria, as well as Material Procurement criteria that take into consideration Life-Cycle analysis.

37 Sustainable Campus Operation. Activities being done Old Buildings Selection of a target Building to achieve better energy performance, as well as air quality performance. Prepare an Energy and Air quality audit, besides measuring variables that set the improvement base.

38 What About the Future of Tec s SD Program? Much more must be done on Educating-the- Educators, on SD so that all faculty teach these concepts and related tools and values to all students by 2004; Much more must be done on Greening of the Campus, structures, procurement, material s management, utilisation of renewable energy, water and other natural resources; Much more must be done on research and implementation of SD throughout Latin American Societies.

39 What About the Future of Tec s SD Program? Much more must be done on developing Partnerships with other academic institutions, worldwide. We hope that participation in this conference will help to facilitate cooperation in new course development, international research and societal implementation of SD policies and practices.

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