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Published Date: 01 July 2009
QUEEN Margaret University has received international recognition of its environmentally sustainable campus.
The institution was presented with a prestigious Green Apple Award, an annual accolade in recognition of building projects which enhance the built environment.

Queen Margaret University's new campus just outside Musselburgh is considered to be an inspirational example of a modern facility and is one of the UK's most environmentally sustainable.

Steve Scott, director of estates, was presented with the trophy on behalf of the university by actress Kate O'Mara at a ceremony in London.

He said: "The project team is delighted that Queen Margaret University has achieved international recognition for the ground breaking environmental design of its new campus."

The Green Apple Awards campaign is run by the Green Organisation, an independent non-political, non-profit organisation that recognises, rewards and promotes environmental best practice.





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  • Last Updated: 01 July 2009 10:48 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Ian down under,

Musselburgh 01/07/2009 21:27:29
This award is a complete and utter joke. It shows that some of our 'environmentally aware' types are full of hot air and no sense.
I was brought up 400 yards from the concrete and tarmac of QMU. It was open countryside and highly productive FOOD GROWING agricultural land. The crops rotated annually and invcluded various vegetables and sometimes barley. This has now gone, hidden under the 'green' concrete and tarmac of the buildings and car parks. How on earth can destruction of valuable, fertile agricultural land ever be seen as environmentally friendly.
We never hear of any environmental awards for the nearby Fort Kinnaird but it is more deserving because it took over a 'brown field' site of an old coliery and brickworks and did not destroy food production.
There are plenty other brown field sites that QMU could have gone to and not damaged our ability to feed ourselves.
2

Andrew,

01/07/2009 23:13:18
1 Agreed! Green fields are now CONCRETE, accessed by a gated entry if you arrive, eventually, by bus (if and when it decides to open) or sneak past the barrier if you arrive on foot from nearby 'MUB' station by train - which is only hourly on weekdays, yet HALF-HOURLY on Saturdays (a non-QM Uni day)!
What's this all about?
3

Ian down under,

Musselburgh 02/07/2009 05:01:51
Hand back the award it is not deserved.

 

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