Facilities and Environment

Target audience

University administration, especially real estate property and facility premises personnel and technical staff and all who’s duty or interest is to develop and maintain universities infrastructure (campuses, buildings, technical infrastructure etc.) or to arrange maintenance, cleaning and other supporting services or handle otherwise environmental issues. And also all other university administrators who are interested in these issues. 

Focus areas

The critical topics are currently campus development, learning environment, working environment, and sustainability. Methods of teaching, studying, and working are continuously changing, as is technology. All this affects what is expected of facilities and campuses. Digitalization is changing our ways of doing things and we have to be up to date also in this process. Pandemic episode 2020-2021 created a need to develop solutions for hybrid working and learning. 

Activities in the past year

• F&E NUAS-Conference 2023, Uppsala
• Face to face meeting in Uppsala (April -23)
• Every second Week zoom meetings year around, basically preparing annual Conference
• F&E NUAS-Conference 2024 in Roskilde

Activities planned for 2024-25

• Face to face meeting in Oslo (22.-23.Octb.2024)
• Every second Week zoom meetings year around, basically preparing annual Conference
• Next F&E NUAS-Conference in Oslo 2025
• Changing group leader May 2025, new group leader will be Leif Johnny Johannessen