Universität Hamburg Presents Plans for In-Person Operations

Photo: UHH/Vogiatzis Universität Hamburg has developed a scenario-based plan for building operations for the Winter Semester, depending on the available energy supply. After the restrictions on students and staff enforced by the coronavirus pandemic in terms of teaching, researching, and in administration in the last two and a half years, Universität Hamburg has taken a clear position for the Winter Semester: University operations will take place in-person. As current political developments may result in changes in the energy supply market, Hamburg's largest university has already put a Building Operations Plan into place. The University departments responsible have already begun to develop a strategy to prepare the University as best as possible for potential restrictions in the energy supply. Based on this, the University has produced scenario-based planning for building operations , which outlines 3 different levels of gas supply and possible measures for each level. This should, for example, allow for energy savings of 15 percent in a regular supply situation, by, for example, lowering the room temperature by 1 or 2 degrees Celsius and swapping out lighting materials. In critical energy supply situations, an optimization of room usage will be implemented.