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. 

Plans for 2026-2027 

• Summarize lessons learned from the conference in Oslo 

• Contribute to NUAS Forum in August 2026 

• Recruiting new members from Sweden and Denmark 

• Start the planning of the next conference in Reykjavik autumn 2027