 # Health
As a Climate-Positive Organisation, BUas is working towards a sustainable campus and organisation through various themes, including health.
The **Health** topic encompasses two interconnected elements: Indoor Comfort and Nutrition & Water.
- **Indoor Comfort** is about the quality of the physical environment where we all spend our working and studying days: the temperature, air quality and ventilation, humidity, lighting, and acoustics of our buildings. These elements actively affect concentration, wellbeing, and productivity. Our aim is to meet and where possible exceed current standards, proactively anticipate increasingly stringent regulations, and embrace new innovations — without compromising our energy targets.
- **Nutrition & Water** is about what we consume on campus: the food and drinks available to our community, and access to clean drinking water. Although this topic sits partly within our Materials and Procurement work, the health dimensions of what we eat and drink deserve attention in their own right.
A campus that is serious about climate action also needs to be a campus where people can think clearly, feel well, and sustain their energy throughout the day. But our ambition goes beyond human wellbeing. As part of our goal to become a Zoop, we are committed to creating regenerative value for all living beings, and not just the people who study and work here. The choices we make about our buildings and our food affect far wider ecosystems, and we try to keep that bigger picture in view.
Our current focus is on building the foundations. For Indoor Comfort, we are developing a baseline assessment framework in 2026, measuring or assessing temperature, CO₂, humidity, and lighting across all buildings, while taking short-term actions like optimising temperature setpoints and running a winter heating campaign. An addition? In addition, we are preparing for the replacement of the air handling units (AHUs), for which we have secured a Dutch government subsidy (DUMAVA) for sustainable building improvements. This replacement is intended to contribute to a sustainable improvement of the indoor climate across our buildings.
For Nutrition & Water, we are still scoping what meaningful action looks like, and will be transparent about that process as it develops. One tension we are actively navigating is ensuring that energy efficiency improvements never come at the cost of Indoor Comfort.
### Contact
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### Documents
[Health - definition & action plan](https://www.buas.nl/cpo-health-def-doc)
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