Building Sustainable Campus

Sustainability Conclave ’22, IIT Roorkee proudly presents the Building Sustainable Campus, where the institutes can show the steps taken by them to make their campus sustainable.

The United Nations created a set of interlinked goals called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for substantive support and capacity building for the goals and their related thematic issues including water, energy, climate, oceans, urbanization, transport, science and technology. This set of 17 goals imagines a future just 15 years off that would be rid of poverty and hunger, and safe from the worst effects of climate change. 

Building Sustainable Campus shows how the campus follows sustainability goals ranging from the dependency of campus maintenance bodies on solar energy for electricity to using big system machinery for satisfying soil needs using waste sustainability.

Rules and Regulations:

• Each team can have a maximum of 5 members from the same institute. 
• The response shall be filled in by the registered email id of the team leader only. Teams are prohibited from communicating with any outside party. 
• The competition consists of 2 rounds -
  • Round 1 - Sustainability Deets Trivia
  • Round 2 - Sustainability Canvass
• All the information shared in the competition on behalf of the team members should be authentic along with appropriate proof in the form of photos and videos is compulsory. Any information found to be false shall not be evaluated.
• Sustainability points shall be awarded to all the participating institutes on a national level.
• Delegates need to keep their Conclave ID Card with them which they need to show to the host or the admin on their entry to the meeting.

Round 1: Sustainability Deets Trivia

• The first round consists of 17 SDGs and their indicators given by the United Nations in the year 2015.
• The responses should include all the present and past sustainable developments and initiatives taken up by the institute. All the answers should be written at the institute level.
• Valid proof of the information provided in the answers should be provided in the form of photos or videos. Images and videos provided by the teams should be authentic.
• The deadline for submission is 8th April 2022, 11:59 PM.
• Please refer to this doc (Sustainability Deets Trivia) to get the details of the 17 SDGs. 
• The submission for this round can be done using this link -  https://bit.ly/3Lt7CGj

Round 2: Sustainability Canvass

• Each team will be given 8 minutes to present in front of the panellists followed by 2 minutes of Q/A. Teams not adhering to the allotted time slots will be disqualified.
• The theme of the presentation shall be showcasing sustainable technologies being used across different campuses to promote the exchange of ideas. The ongoing research across different SDGs shall be inculcated in the presentation with valid images and videos.
• The panellists will be expert entrepreneurs in the field of sustainable technologies who will be judging on the basis of present and future developments to attain the SDGs listed by the UN. 
• This competition provides a platform to connect prospective technologies with companies and entrepreneurs.

Judging Criteria:

• The first round is 170 points with each SDG carrying 10 points. Each question will be evaluated based on the points covered under the specific SDGs.
• No answer would be evaluated with a lack of proof in the form of authentic pictures and videos.
• The answers should cover the initiatives and sustainable developments taken by the institute under the given SDGs.
• The presentation will be judged on the basis of current and future sustainable innovations by the institute based on the SDGs given by the UN. 
• The second round will be followed by 10 minutes of QnA by the judges. The teams will be evaluated on a scale of 230 points.

At the end of all the rounds, the teams will be given points out of 400 and the institutes will be awarded sustainability points on a scale of 0-10.