JAUE2020-018: China’s Green Campus Improvements: Comparison of Two Universities through STARS’s Assessment

Abstract

Green campus in China has been constructed for 12 years since it began to build the energy-saving campus. This paper focuses on two typical Chinese universities, in order to study the current situation of green campus in China. Firstly, the two campuses are evaluated by introducing STARS which is widely used in the world, and the quantitative evaluation results of two campus are obtained as the basis for analysis and demonstration. Secondly, through the comparison of the evaluation results of two cases, the construction level of China's green campus is clearly defined, and the specific suggestions are put forward based on the optimization of China's green campus evaluation standards. The results can be applied to the green campus construction of other universities in China. The results show that the development of green campus in China is still in the preliminary stage, and the overall level of construction is weak. The construction lays particular stress on academics and education, and is seriously inadequate in infrastructure and environment-friendly facilities. Some of top Chinese universities can actively explore green technology and facilities in the light of their own research advantages.