The Report was based on a comprehensive environmental audit commissioned by the University, the first of its type among local tertiary institutions. The Environmental Report 2000 provides detailed information on the environmental performance of the University and sets out the targets and performance indicators for a University-wide action plan suggested by the audit report to preserve the clean and green campus environment and promote general awareness of environmental protection.
High priority is placed on energy conservation.
Energy audits will be conducted in buildings to assess the efficiency of energy use and identify areas for conservation and cost-savings. The University is on a large elevated site and moving thousands of people around each day is not an easy task. Diesel shuttle buses have already been fitted with diesel oxidation catalysts, which has shown a significantly large reduction in black smoke emission. The older buses have been replaced. An extensive and evolving waste-recycling programme is in the pipeline.