Scope
What does it include?
The environmental management system of the Universitat Politècnica de València includes all the activities and processes developed by the university community in the campuses of Alcoy, Gandia and Valencia (Vera), as well as the administrative management, the organization and control of the university teachings and the maintenance of the university services.
Our certificates
Our way of doing things complies with all the requirements of the international standard ISO 14001:2015 and with all the additional requirements of the demanding European EMAS Regulation. This is certified and validated by an external auditor every year since 2009.
The ISO 14001:2015 standard
ISO 14001:2015 is an international standard promoted by ISO (International Standard Organization) that imposes requirements to be met by organizations that want to implement an environmental management system.
The European EMAS Regulation
It is a voluntary European provision that, based on the 14001 standard, imposes additional requirements for organizations wishing to register their environmental management system.
UPV in figures
Alcoy Campus
Members of the university community
Number of students: 2,483
Number of employees: 288
Number of external workers: 32
Extension
Gross floor area: 28,717 m2
Landscaped area: 1.270 m2
Administrative units
Number of schools / faculties: 1
Gandia Campus
Members of the university community
Number of students: 1,410
Number of employees: 215
Number of external workers: 26
Extension
Gross floor area: 32,415 m2
Landscaped area: 7,020 m2
Administrative units
Number of schools / faculties: 1
Vera Campus
Members of the university community
Number of students: 31,243
Number of employees: 5,223
Number of external workers: 2,768
Extension
Constructed area: 637,928 m2
Landscaped surface area: 118,555 m2
Administrative units
Number of schools / faculties: 12
If you want to know more…
What is an environmental management system?
When we talk about environmental management we refer to the set of tasks that we carry out at the UPV to visit and control the environmental impact that our activities have.
The environmental management system establishes the general objectives of the UPV with respect to the environment and organizes all these tasks in order to achieve our objectives.
What are your objectives?
- Improve the UPV’s environmental performance by minimizing negative environmental impacts and enhancing potential positive impacts.
- Comply with the applicable legal requirements and all those that UPV has committed to comply with.
- Implement a process of continuous improvement by setting environmental objectives and monitoring compliance.
What is our approach?
Plan
Establish environmental objectives and determine who and when they are to be implemented. Also establish the actions necessary to control our environmental impact by indicating what, who and when they are to be carried out.
Make
Implement periodic actions and environmental objectives as planned.
Check
Track what we are doing and measure the degree to which we have achieved our objectives and whether our actions are achieving results.
Improve
Establish the necessary actions to correct what has not been done according to plan and what has not worked as expected with the objective of continuous improvement.