UMN Wins ASEAN Energy Saving Building Again

Asean Energy Award recipients in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday (4/9). (Doc. UMN)

TANGERANG – Multimedia Nusantara University Building (UMN), PK Ojong-Jakob Oetama Tower, won the 1st Runner Up Energy Efficient Building award for tropical building category at the ASEAN Energy Award in Bangkok, Thailand. The award was received by UMN Building Manager Sudarman Sutanto at the Gala Dinner of the 37th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting in Bangkok on Wednesday (4/9).

Previously, PK Ojong-Jakob Oetama Tower UMN won the 2018 Subroto Award iii in the Energy Efficiency category of New Buildings held by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources on Friday (09/28/2018). Then, UMN included this building to a higher level of competition, namely ASEAN.

“Late last year, PK Ojong-Jakob Oetama Tower UMN won the 2018 Subroto Award III Champion. After that, we drew up a proposal to include this building in the ASEAN level race. Unexpectedly, this building won the 1st runner up asean energy award 2019,” said Sudarman proudly.

UMN Building Manager Sudarman Sutanto Received the Award (doc. UMN)

1st Runner Up Energy Efficient Building for Tropical Building category at ASEAN Energy Award in Bangkok, Thailand (doc. UMN)

Along with the achievement of this award, UMN also became the greenest and most environmentally friendly Private University (PTS) in Jakarta and ranked 243rd in the world version of UI Green Metric World University Ranking 2018.

In response to this, VICE RECTOR II umn Andrey Andoko explained that UMN continues to strive to maintain its achievements as a national and world green campus from year to year by educating umn academic community.

“So far the efforts we make, including improving education to all UMN academics to participate actively in energy savings and related research, and increasing waste management activities, so that waste can be sorted and recycled,” explained Andrey.

UMN, a comfortable and environmentally friendly green campus. UMN)

Andrey melanjutkan, sebagai sumbangsih bagi pelestarian lingkungan, UMN berkomitmen untuk membangun kampus yang ramah lingkungan.

“Kami membuat kampus dengan pepohonan yang rindang dan gedung yang hemat energi. Diharapkan ini menjadi kebiasaan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari dalam menghemat energi, serta menjadi pelopor dalam upaya penghematan energi,” tutup Andrey.

Pada 2014 lalu, gedung UMN ‘New Media Tower’ juga meraih Juara I Energy Efficient Building ASEAN Energy Award. Berbagai prestasi yang diraih oleh gedung UMN tersebut menjadi bukti komitmen bahwa UMN menciptakan kampus ramah lingkungan yang berkelanjutan. (CRA)

*by Chininta Rizka Angelia – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara News Service

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