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positioning ourselves strategically as key players in the Park. This design has offered
us the opportunity of sharing our vision on the variety of new complex sustainable
development challenges with the rest of our partners.
In this respect, a need to explore new forms of multidisciplinary and trans-partner
interaction aimed at driving the whole Park movements toward sustainability, has
been identified. On the other hand, and as already discussed at the previous section, a
“glocal HEI” model is required when dealing with these issues. In response with these
needs, a living lab approach as an accurate cooperation working tool for sustainable
issues, has been proposed. This methodology has revealed itself to be appropriate
in handling the transition that every stakeholder needs to undertake to overcome
traditional model boundaries.
According to Grin et al. (2010) and going in depth to effectively fit sustainability
into such an integrated trans-disciplinary oriented manner, three types of agency
must exist: an agency to change structures, an agency to pursue novel practices,
and an agency to link novel practices to structures. Building on this framework, the
following agencies to promote the progressive construction of a space consisting of
a multidisciplinary and networking approach, have been matched at the TCM smart
campus:
i. The Equipment and Infrastructures Department of the TCM, identified as both
agencies type #1 and #3.
ii. Our GRESIT Research Group (Alternative and Renewable Energies, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Industrial Technological Innovation Research Group),
identified as an agency type #2.
Subsequently, a set of round tables between ourselves (tagged as agency #1) and
the Equipment and Infrastructures Department (-tagged as agencies #1 and #3-),
was launched for devising the necessary strategies and mapping energy issues on
the campus. These identified agencies, takes advantage of both our technological
and sustainability skills, and the decision capabilities and knowledge background of
the Infrastructures Department in order to work together for improved energy issues
decision making.
The role of the TCM Living Lab infrastructure (hereafter, TCM-LL) will be to further improve the capacity of the TCM to incorporate methods and tools for defining
and co-creating new innovation processes towards a reduction in energy consumption. The aim of the first stage of the TCM-LL is to build a strong basis for knowledge
sharing between the different identified agencies, while the ultimate goal of the proposal must be to guarantee the convergence towards the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings
approach of all the buildings within the Technology Park.
In the following two sections, a detailed description and assessment of the technological decisions already planned and carried out by the Tecnocampus Park in an
effort to reduce emissions and meet the new ambitious EU regulatory demands, may
be found.
V. Espinosa-Duró et al.
positioning ourselves strategically as key players in the Park. This design has offered
us the opportunity of sharing our vision on the variety of new complex sustainable
development challenges with the rest of our partners.
In this respect, a need to explore new forms of multidisciplinary and trans-partner
interaction aimed at driving the whole Park movements toward sustainability, has
been identified. On the other hand, and as already discussed at the previous section, a
“glocal HEI” model is required when dealing with these issues. In response with these
needs, a living lab approach as an accurate cooperation working tool for sustainable
issues, has been proposed. This methodology has revealed itself to be appropriate
in handling the transition that every stakeholder needs to undertake to overcome
traditional model boundaries.
According to Grin et al. (2010) and going in depth to effectively fit sustainability
into such an integrated trans-disciplinary oriented manner, three types of agency
must exist: an agency to change structures, an agency to pursue novel practices,
and an agency to link novel practices to structures. Building on this framework, the
following agencies to promote the progressive construction of a space consisting of
a multidisciplinary and networking approach, have been matched at the TCM smart
campus:
i. The Equipment and Infrastructures Department of the TCM, identified as both
agencies type #1 and #3.
ii. Our GRESIT Research Group (Alternative and Renewable Energies, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Industrial Technological Innovation Research Group),
identified as an agency type #2.
Subsequently, a set of round tables between ourselves (tagged as agency #1) and
the Equipment and Infrastructures Department (-tagged as agencies #1 and #3-),
was launched for devising the necessary strategies and mapping energy issues on
the campus. These identified agencies, takes advantage of both our technological
and sustainability skills, and the decision capabilities and knowledge background of
the Infrastructures Department in order to work together for improved energy issues
decision making.
The role of the TCM Living Lab infrastructure (hereafter, TCM-LL) will be to further improve the capacity of the TCM to incorporate methods and tools for defining
and co-creating new innovation processes towards a reduction in energy consumption. The aim of the first stage of the TCM-LL is to build a strong basis for knowledge
sharing between the different identified agencies, while the ultimate goal of the proposal must be to guarantee the convergence towards the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings
approach of all the buildings within the Technology Park.
In the following two sections, a detailed description and assessment of the technological decisions already planned and carried out by the Tecnocampus Park in an
effort to reduce emissions and meet the new ambitious EU regulatory demands, may
be found.