A new Scottish university campus in Edinburgh is setting high standards for both energy efficiency
and how a university can use information technology to create a much more flexible and inspiring learning environment.

The Challenge: Green Computing Without Compromise

In October 2003, the university set out its vision for an academic village that combined a
sustainable development with a state of the art Learning Resource Centre providing information
services to over 4500 students and staff, plus visitors and members of the local community.

Fraser Muir, now director of information services and the learning resource centre, recalls how the
ambitious plans for a new sustainable campus influenced the decisions about information
technology for the new campus:

“The building design stipulated that the desktop computing platform should be limited to
approximately 45 watts of power per device. The heat produced by conventional PCs combined
with the heat generated by people simply could not be handled by natural ventilation. So a better
solution needed to be identified”

The recommendation was to look into thin-clients because these minimized heat generation.

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