Environmental sustainability and circular economy – analysis of good practices on the example of the Birkenfeld Environmental Campus

Abstract

Despite the fact that environmentally friendly solutions and technologies are widely known, their implementation and technical space related to construction still encounter difficulties. Bringing information about the pioneers of implementing sustainable energy and environmental management is therefore an important activity supporting the energy transformation process in construction. The article describes the idea of an environmentally sustainable university campus – Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Germany. It is the only university campus in Germany that uses renewable energy sources on a scale that allows for the full offset of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere resulting from the operation of the campus. The work was created as part of the INT190 MoRE project – Model Region of Renewable Energy of the Usedom and Wolin Islands.