Innovative communication

between building users

and facility management to
nudge sustainable
behaviour
Regula von Büren, Project Manager, EcoCampus
Initiative, Nanyang Technological University (NTU
Singapore)
VISION
To be the greenest campus in the world

Education & Research

35%
Reduction in energy,
water and waste
intensity
Living Industry
Laboratory Collaboration

In collaboration with:
Overview NTU Campus

Total area Built-up Students + Buildings on Residents

• 250 hectares space staff Campus • 13,000
• 10 million sq. • 40,000 • Over 200
ft.
EcoCampus Focus Areas
PowerZee
A collective experience for sustainable campuses
 Bridge impact with user experience

In-game
reward
 Apply technical and sociological
Challenges
system approach to raise students
awareness regarding sustainable
development
Nudges
Game
Gamification story
 Give practical advice, to
improve campus energy
Social Sociological efficiency, sustainability and
Norms
concepts Avatar
comfort

 Contribute to the student’s

Information Salience sense of belonging on campus
through making it a greener
community
Development

 Semi-structured interviews

 Online surveys

 Workshops of co-creation

 Mapping of stakeholders

 Constant feedback loop with game

developers
PowerZee Partners
ENGIE
 Development and design of PowerZee solution
 Marketing
 Deployment worldwide
 Data analysis

NTU
 Co-design of PowerZee
application
 Deployment in Singapore
 Behavioral analysis

EarthLink NTU
 Support development and communication
 Student feedback
PowerZee Impression
 Thermal Comfort
 User report how they feel (Cold/OK/Hot) for optimized performance & comfort
 Crowdsourced data
Bridge FM with building user
EcoActions
 Learn how to save resources and adopt sustainable behaviors
 Perform eco-actions and increase your score
Challenges
 User can join team to take part in challenges to achieve
sustainability goals and upload pictures of their activity

SCSE
Theme: Garden City
Initial Results NTU Campus

2,000+ Players

53,000+ Eco-Actions

13,500+ Hot/Cold declaration

Energy Analysis

Hot/Cold Analysis

Eco-Actions Tendencies
 Knowledge and Behaviour

Studies done by:

Prof Yohanes Eko Riyanto
Prof Patrick Williams
School of Social Sciences @ NTU

Conclusion
 increase the awareness about energy consumption
 foster eco-friendly behavior
NTU experimentation showed potential savings of 5-10% of the total energy
 Deployments

Singapore Paris

 Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Launch June 2017

 Nanyang Technological University  Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

Deployment 2015, re-launch 2017 Experimentation in May/June 2017

 River Valley High School

Experimentation March/April 2017
Impressions PowerZee @ NTU
Launch by Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State
Vision

In deployment

In study