Thammasat University to collaborate on new ‘smart city’
Universities and their buildings and infrastructure are more than just the physical space where students and their professors meet for lectures.
These learning institutions improve and rejuvenate the areas they are situated in, and become inexorably linked to the communities which they serve.
One recent example is Thammasat University’s Rangsit campus in Pathum Thani, which recently embarked on a collaboration with Harvard University and three Thai companies to design and build a satellite city in the adjacent Nava Nakorn Industrial Zone.
The project is being touted as the “Thammasat-Nava Nakorn Smart City” and the first draft of a blueprint is expected to be finalised by the middle of the year.
SUPOJ WANCHAROEN
