'Green' Concurrent Sessions at SCUP-45

We cut and pasted these, very quickly, from the full listing of concurrent sessions which you can find here. (That list, unlike this one, will be kept current over the next 4 months. There are enough sessions directly on topic with green building, energy conservation, and general sustainability themes to make up a couple of distinct tracks in Minneapolis. Higher education's premier planning conference in 2010 offers a lot for sustainability folks. Register by April 30 to ensure you receive the early registration discount.

A New Vision for the Core Campus at Clemson University
Presenter(s): Joe Atkins, Associate Principal, VMDO Architects; David Oakland, Principal, VMDO Architects; Gerald Vander Mey, Director, University Planning & Design, Clemson University

Clemson has set out to fundamentally redevelop its campus core. The presentation focuses on this ambitious transformation. It explores innovative mixed-use planning approaches; assesses bold, but careful, proposals for increased density; reflects campus design principles for social and intellectual interaction, respect for campus culture and history, and commitment to sustainability; and describes how housing, academic, dining, and student life programs can be combined into a dynamic center of campus life for a public school poised to break into the top-twenty.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the challenges and opportunities encountered when a campus redevelopment is charged with embodying and expressing the values and identity of the campus as a whole.
2. Discover how planning concepts that place the “landscape first” can establish an effective campus order and provide a range of outdoor spaces to promote interaction on a variety of scales.
3. Assess unique problems in large, multi-phased projects relative to funding and implementation.
4. Identify issues related to mixed-use development—including strategic overlaps of traditionally separate campus operations (e.g. housing, academic, dining, and student life).

TAGS: Public Research, Sustainability, Facility Type_Student Center, Master Planning

A Sustainable Campus? - Yeah, Right! More Hype and No Substance ?
Presenter(s): Bart Becker, Associate Vice President, Facilities & Operations, University of Alberta; Leonard Rodrigues, Senior Principal, Stantec Architecture Ltd

There are many planning studies and campus plans that claim sustainability as their underpinning. However, the meaning of "sustainable" can be quite widely interpreted. This session outlines a plan for a campus of 15,000 FTE seeking to be holistically green--in planning, infrastructure, buildings, and landscape. By setting the metrics of sustainable development in tangible economic, social, and technical terms, this plan shows what a truly sustainable campus might look like.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the constituent pieces of an integrated sustainable campus infrastructure, facilities, and operations.
2. Identify metrics that are objectively measurable and not "Greenwashing."
3. Address a "closed loop" approach to the site for energy, water, waste, and how they interact.
4. Implement strategies for long-term sustainable development and operations - leveraging development opportunities to ensure concept execution.

TAGS: Large Public Research, Sustainability, International, integrated planning, Master Planning

Access Mis-Management: "We've Met the Enemy and He is Us"
Presenter(s): Barbara Chance, President & Chief Executive Officer, CHANCE Management Advisors, Inc; Robert Furniss, Senior Operations Consultant, CHANCE Management Advisors, Inc; Alexandria Roe, Director, Planning & Program Development, Architectural & Engineering Services, University of Connecticut

After struggling with pedestrian/vehicular conflicts, ruined landscape, and a desire to remove vehicles from the campus core, the University of Connecticut decided that it needed an access management plan. Learn about the university's decision process leading to its request for an access management consulting study, the particulars of data collection and plan preparation, the reaction from campus departments and vendors, the issues involved in plan implementation and buy-in, and the benefits realized.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize how a comprehensive access management plan can increase pedestrian safety, reduce fuel consumption and vehicle emissions, preserve landscape, and beautify a campus.
2. Review strategies for improving the management of campus service and delivery access needs.
3. Assess how access management strategies can be applied to the participants own campus.
4. Identify the institutional obstacles facing the implementation of a campus access management plan as well as the strategies to overcome them.

TAGS: Large Public Research, Transportation

Benchmarking Benefits for Energy/Water Use—54 College Campuses in Minnesota
Presenter(s): Rick Carter, Senior Vice President, LHB, Inc; Sally Grans-Korsh, Systems Director, Facilities Planning & Programming, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities System Office; Tom McDougall, President, The Weidt Group

Energy Benchmarking at 54 campuses was done throughout Minnesota by campus staff. Benchmark data resulted in clear, concise reports for overall energy/water use. Learn how to gather data, determine Energy Use Intensity (EUI) in kBtu/sf/year and water usage in gals/occupant/day. Data is critical to determine best use of capital expenditures to maximize energy efficiency. Examples from both high and low performers will be shared, with suggestions on how to improve campus energy consumption.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore the basics about energy use intensity, how energy can be converted to a common unit (kBtu), normalized by area (square foot) and time (year), and how to calculate this information for a building and campus.
2. Determine how to efficiently collect information from accounting and facility staff.
3. Determine how to calculate the best benchmark, compare the data, and develop a case study for use in making recommendations going forward.
4. Apply the data collected, and communicate performance benchmarks to facility managers and users to influence behaviors and reduce consumption.

TAGS: Higher Education System, Sustainability, Performance Measures

Carbon, Energy, and Water: Sustainable Planning Strategies for Indiana University
Presenter(s): William Brown, Director, Sustainability, Indiana University; Mary Jukuri, Principal, JJR, LLC; Russell Perry, Managing Partner, Smith Group Inc.

Indiana University is re-aligning its physical resources for a sustainable future. Explore the integrated master plan for the Bloomington campus through the lens of energy and water resources. Learn how the university can accommodate a projected 25 percent facility growth while reducing its overall environmental footprint. We will discuss achieving this goal using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies for an innovative Stormwater and Hydrology Plan and an unprecedented campus-wide Energy and Water Use Plan.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore ways to implement campus sustainable design initiatives from six vantage points: energy, land use, resource use, transportation, built environment, and food.
2. Evaluate the cumulative effect of multiple planning strategies including watershed analysis, riparian restoration, habitat corridors and increased tree cover on managing campus stormwater run-off quality and quantity.
3. Using the IU Energy and Water Use Plan, estimate greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption for campus facilities, predict future energy and water use for new development, and apply techniques to reduce energy use, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions for a campus.
4. Discuss sustainable design leadership and its integration into the university's administrative and academic mission and functions.

TAGS: Sustainability, Large Public Research, Performance Measures, Master Planning, Operational Planning

Connecting Alumni to Campus Through Innovative Planning and Design
Presenter(s): Thomas Hotaling, Principal, Ann Beha Architects; Kathleen Kelleher, Interim Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, University of Vermont; Linda Seavey, Director, Campus Planning Services, University of Vermont

The University of Vermont has embarked on an exciting initiative to restore, renovate, and expand a local landmark as an important new point of campus connection for visiting alumni. This creative design offers a home base for alumni activities, opportunities for revenue-generation, outreach to the surrounding city, and administrative space for development and alumni relations. This session will address the project's complex planning and design process, financial modeling, strategies for phased construction, neighborhood concerns, endowment opportunities, and sustainable strategies for historic structures.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of adaptive re-use versus new construction.
2. Discover innovative solutions for unique program requirements (including events spaces, public spaces for alumni use, and revenue-generating programs.)
3. Explore sustainable design strategies for historic buildings.
4. Review the business planning steps to be considered when creating revenue-generating spaces in academic settings, including the ever-present issue of campus parking.

TAGS: Large Public Research, Renovation, Town/Gown, Facility Design, Facility Type_Alumni Center

Does Net Zero Design LEED to Zero Cost?
Presenter(s): Chris Buntine, Sustainability Engineer, GreenWorks Studio; Brent Miller, Principal, Harley Ellis Devereaux; David Umstot, Vice Chancellor, Facilities Management, San Diego Community College District

Limited resources are not a new reality for higher education, but how we design for these constraints can be. A focus on first cost, rather than on life-cycle cost, has defined a performance path with ever-increasing operational costs. This session illustrates how San Diego Community College District and other institutions are utilizing net zero approaches to design away operating costs, control capital costs, and push LEED certification to the highest levels.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify building candidates at the master plan level to optimize net zero design options.
2. Define performance goals that drive design toward net zero.
3. Educate building occupants, facilities maintenance, and administration to facilitate the shift to a net zero paradigm.
4. Incorporate post-occupancy evaluations, measurement, verification, and recommissioning to ensure a successful outcome.

TAGS: Community College, Sustainability, Operational Planning, Facility Design

Future Ready: How to Integrate Strategic Direction and Campus Planning
Presenter(s): Alexander Carroll, Master Planner & Senior Associate, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C.; Charles Craig, Senior Master Planner & Principal, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C.; Lisa Fears, Vice President, Planning, Plant & Technology, Franklin College of Indiana

Franklin College's campus planning case study will present a process model for linking 21st-century strategic objectives to an institutionally and contextually appropriate and sustainable plan. Franklin, a small, residential, liberal arts institution, has a long history of active engagement and innovation. The college's recent campus plan sustains the campus’ unique character and heritage by means of a disciplined study and interdisciplinary process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Using discipline and a process model, link the strategic planning process and initiatives to campus planning.
2. Compare communications procedures for ensuring success in the planning process.
3. Incorporate institutional history, mission, and goals in the campus design process.
4. Explore strategies and proposals for establishing interdisciplinary opportunities and linkages for curricular and co-curricular programs.

TAGS: Small Private Liberal Arts, Sustainability, Preservation, Master Planning, Strategic Planning

HEASC Fellows Project Report
Presenter(s): Peter Bardaglio, Senior Fellow, Second Nature, Inc; John Ruffo, Partner, WRNS Studio, LLP; Nancy Tierney, Associate Dean, Facilities & Planning, University of Arizona, College of Medicine

SCUP finds itself at the nexus of organizations that are focused on advancing sustainability in higher education. SCUP's three HEASC Sustainability Fellows are defining the society’s future role in campus sustainability, while focusing on three specific projects that are at the core of our sustainability vision: Nurturing young sustainability planners, developing integrated resources and assessing community engagement models. We will report on lessons learned, so far, from these three projects. We will also provide an overview of related initiatives that involve SCUP members, from the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS).

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the potential of campus-community sustainability engagement models for your own institution.
2. Analyze the value to SCUPers in using STARS to leverage a better understanding of the power of integrated planning.
3. Review the ways you can identify, engage, and possibly mentor emerging campus sustainability leaders.
4. Demonstrate the variety of campus sustainability roles and positions with regard to their place in the institutional organization and how they can be more effective.

Help! My Building Doesn't Have a Cavity: Re-cladding Solutions for Energy Inefficient Existing Buildings
Presenter(s): Katherine Bozoian, President, Bozoian Group Architects; Julia Oberheu Tritschler, Associate, Bozoian Group Architects; Keith Quick, Larson Engineering, Inc.

Colleges and universities have a large variety of building stock. Some were built at a time when there was little regard for energy consumption or knowledge of best practices for moisture control. Schools must provide desirable and healthy housing and academic facilities to attract students. When resources are tight and conservation is paramount, re-cladding can preserve the value of existing structures while overhauling their performance and aesthetics and extending their lives to the end of the century.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify performance problems in masonry buildings that were built without a cavity.
2. Analyze benefits and pitfalls in designing re-cladding.
3. Discuss benefits and pitfalls of materials available for re-cladding.
4. Discover potential construction approaches for re-cladding.

TAGS: Sustainability, Student Retention, Renovation, Facility Design

How Do Smart Meters Make a University More Intelligent
Presenter(s): Henry Jones, Chief Technology Officer, SmartSynch Inc.; James Morrison, Director, Strategic Planning & Campus Sustainability & Senior Vice Chancellor, Planning & Operation, University of Mississippi; Darren Raybourn, Director, Business Development, SmartSynch Inc.; Larry Sparks, Vice Chancellor for Administration & Finance, University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi's (UM) enhanced energy management plan and recent deployment of smart grid technology has enabled the university to monitor energy consumption real-time, track building power performance over time, and archive data for future analysis and planning. Additionally, UM is utilizing social networking tools to engage students, staff, and faculty in a collective effort to reduce the campus' power consumption levels. Obtain the details on the overall energy management project, including the technology selection and implementation process, early success stories, challenges, and long-term goals and expectations.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the efforts and resources required to integrate smart meter technology into a campus energy management program.
2. Distinguish what energy usage data and benchmarks are important to analyze to support financial resource allocation decisions.
3. Improve your institution's ability to identify opportunities for increased operational efficiencies using real-time energy usage data.
4. Examine how incentive programs and social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feed to engage a university community in lower its carbon footprint.

TAGS: Large Public Research, Sustainability, Information technology, Change

Integrating Academic, Facilities and Community Needs at BCTC's New Campus
Presenter(s): Augusta Julian, President/CEO, Bluegrass Community & Technical College; Krisan Osterby, Senior Campus Planner, Perkins+Will; Laurence Page, Senior Academic Planner, Perkins+Will

The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Master Plan consolidated programs from three existing campuses, while redeveloping the oldest continuing psychiatric hospital campus in America. Located in a distressed neighborhood, the project integrated academics, operations, sustainability, historic preservation, and community needs. Focusing on 48 acres adjacent to downtown Lexington, the planning team collaborated with KCTCS, Finance Cabinet, faculty, staff, city, and historical society representatives to create a mixed use campus vision for 10,000 students that links institutional and community priorities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover the correlation between academics, facilities and community plans.
2. Create a process to align academic goals with facilities.
3. Integrate community heritage, community needs, and the campus vision.
4. Develop a protocol for phasing a consolidated campus.

TAGS: Community College, Historic Preservation, Master Planning, Town/Gown, Sustainability

Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Campus Solar and LEED/Sustainable Projects
Presenter(s): Nils Blomquist, Preconstruction Manager, DPR Construction, Inc; Nick Ertmer, Project Manager, DPR Construction, Inc; Mike Miller, Director of Facilities Planning and Management, Butte College

This session will provide real-world techniques and examples of feasibility and lifecycle cost analysis based on Butte College's 2-Megawatt solar power farm (the largest college campus solar project in California) and new 77,000 sq. ft. Instructional Arts project, which is pending LEED Gold certification and won the California Community College Chancellor's Office Energy Efficiency Partnership Program Best Practice Award in HVAC. Attendees will also see firsthand the process implemented for sustainability analysis during preconstruction.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss possible approaches to funding campus solar power projects.
2. Analyze the feasibility of campus solar power projects.
3. Evaluate return on investment (ROI) for LEED/sustainable projects based on a lifecycle cost approach.
4. Quantify the impact of campus power generation projects on the sustainability of campus construction projects.

Location Location Location: An Unlikely Approach to Sustainable Growth

Presenter(s): Léo Lejeune, Senior Associate, Architect, Stantec Architecture Ltd.; Stuart MacLean, Director, Facilities, Grant MacEwan College

Grant MacEwan University believes that it can best meet the needs of future generations by consolidating all of its existing four campuses onto its one downtown site. This new single sustainable campus project seeks to bring all of MacEwan's services back into one location, while growing its student population, improving the student experience, and tripling its existing square footage in the process. We will reveal an innovative strategy for sustainable growth in a very dense urban context.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore how sustainability is changing the way students want to learn, and impacting technology, libraries, teaching spaces, and social spaces.
2. Create a thorough business case analysis when approaching governments for funding.
3. Design a campus plan that not only exceeds sustainability goals, but also aids in transforming the surrounding urban environment.
4. Identify the benefits of selling off existing campuses.

TAGS: International, Public Comprehensive, Master Planning

Master Planning for a Sustainable Marine Science Campus at UCSC
Presenter(s): Damon Adlao, Project Manager, Assistant Planner, University of California-Santa Cruz; Craig Curtis, Partner, Miller/Hull Partnership; J. Douglas Macy, Landscape Architect & Principal, Walker Macy

The Marine Science Campus at UC Santa Cruz is engaged in critically important research activity for the understanding and protection of coastal and marine habitat across the globe, especially adjacent to the site in Monterey Bay. Learn about the recent campus area plan that will guide specific development for the 98-acre site, inspired by its natural setting and aiming for a careful integration of the coastal ecosystem with new energy-efficient academic facilities and programs and alternative transportation.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate pragmatic ways to plan new development on sensitive sites, maximizing energy and transportation efficiency, and reducing traditional infrastructure.
2. Explore how to become more self-sufficient through use of a combination of site amenities, including solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and micro-hydro generation.
3. Observe the plan's consistent alignment of new buildings for optimal solar orientation and progressive standards for alternative modes of transportation.
4. Appraise an innovative response to storm water treatment, based on subsurface flows on a sensitive site.

TAGS: Large Public Research, Sustainability, Master Planning, Open Space

Multidisciplinary Learning, Sustainable Environments and Architectural Design = Positive Educational Experience
Presenter(s): Joseph Coriaty, Partner, Frederick Fisher & Partners Architects; Peter Schröder, Professor, Computer Science and Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology; John Zinner, Principal, Zinner Consultants

Perspectives from education, sustainability, and design will demonstrate ways in which multidisciplinary learning and domestically-formatted learning environments may deinstitutionalize the educational process and promote sharing amongst faculty members and their associated research groups. Incorporating sustainable classroom environments and pursuing an open and interactive design process for new classroom buildings promotes a creative, operationally-efficient, and more positive learning/teaching experience. The merit of these methods as implemented on recent projects will be presented and analyzed.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate how multi-disciplinary learning and deinstitutionalized learning environments improve the educational process.
2. Illustrate how specific sustainable features such as abundant daylight, view corridors, creature comforts, and acoustics can improve the classroom experience.
3. Evaluate the promotion of educational transparency through the collaborative educational experience from the perspective of curriculum, environment and facility.
4. Identify the current needs of multi-use learning environments in order to control operational flexibility and efficiency.

TAGS: Private Research, Facility Type_Science, Learning Space Design, Research Space Design

Planning for Athletics and Recreation—Making Every Yard Count
Presenter(s): David Dymecki, Principal, Sasaki Associates; William Massey, Principal, Sasaki Associates, Inc; Carol Moyles, Senior Associate/Landscape Architect, Sasaki Associates

Athletic and recreation buildings are some of the largest, most energy-intensive buildings on a campus. Factor in fields and outdoor venues and the impact becomes even more significant. With increasing demand for intramural and club sports and expectations for ever more sophisticated facilities for athletics, team sports and human performance research, institutions are working harder than ever to plan appropriately for the future. This session will look at planning strategies that maximize space and land area with a sustainable, long-term focus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Respond to trends in athletics and recreation within a rapidly changing and unpredictable economic landscape.
2. Minimize the environmental impact of traditionally large, energy intensive buildings.
3. Apply rules of thumb for meeting NCAA Regulations and basic planning guidelines for Division 1, 2 and 3 Institutions.
4. Establish priorities by looking at student surveys, aligning growth with an institution's academic mission, evaluating trends in Athletics and Recreation, and more.

TAGS: Facility Type_Athletics, Trends, Sustainability, Open Space, Master Planning, Student life

Poly Canyon Village: Integrated Project Delivery Brings Sustainability Home
Presenter(s): F. Robert Hood, Senior Vice President, Clark Construction Corporation; Lawrence Kelley, Vice President, Administration & Finance, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo; Edwin Kimsey, President, Niles Bolton Associates; Robert Kitamura, Director, Facilities Planning, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

In 2005, California Polytechnic State University requested proposals for the state's largest student housing project. Originally developer-financed, the project was repositioned as design-build. Working together, the University and the Design/Build team, comprised of over 30 professional entities, creatively met the proposed budget while exceeding the proposal commitment of LEED certification, achieving LEED Gold. In 2009, Poly Canyon Village welcomed students to a 2,670 bed, 1.4 million gsf, sustainable, adaptable environment. Learn how the project team met current market expectations, maximized the budget, and brought the best green building practices to campus housing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Utilize the diverse resources of the project team and the University to creatively solve the challenges of design/construction through design-build delivery.
2. Discuss effective, flexible management tools for mega-projects.
3. Define approaches and analyze the risk to multi-year, phased, construction projects.
4. Utilize sustainability to enhance project environments and overcome severe environmental issues.

TAGS: Large Public Research, Student Residences, Sustainability, Facility Type_Student Residences, Design/Build

Repurposing a Building—Morrill Hall, Sustainable in 1890
Presenter(s): Scott Allen, Partner, RDG Planning & Design; Michael Andresen, Associate, RDG Planning & Design; Kerry Dixon-Fox, Project Manager, Iowa State University

The session is a case study of the rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of a building on the national register of historic places. Examine the campus factors that lead to the abandonment of the facility and also review the design and construction decisions that provided the basis for a successful repurposing and rehabilitation project resulting in Iowa State University's first LEED® silver project. We will cover strategies, building performance and other possible funding criteria on similar buildings.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Summarize the evolution of design and construction over the last 100 years.
2. Identify the issues surrounding restoration and rehabilitation of a historic structure.
3. Develop goals for sustainable concepts and strategies within a restoration project.
4. Review the requirements of the LEED Documentation and Certification Process.

TAGS: Historic Preservation, Sustainability, Large Public Research

Sustainable Campus as Pedagogy: Opportunities For Enhancing the Curriculum
Presenter(s): Stephen Hardy, Planner, BNIM Architects; Stephen McDowell, Principal, BNIM Architects; David Orr, Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College; Daniel Sniff, Associate Vice President, Facilities Planning, University of Georgia

The University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology and the Oberlin College Sustainable Arts District are two recent projects with high goals for environmental sustainability and energy use reduction. The design of these campuses and their built environments provide teaching and learning tools in both the sciences and arts. These two case studies demonstrate how to extend the efficacy of construction funds by conceiving facilities that go beyond functionality to active engagement of the curriculum.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the roles that physical plant can play in the curriculum.
2. Maintain flexibility while creating specific learning opportunities.
3. Link sustainable design with curriculum in the sciences and the arts.
4. Debate the role that sustainable, teaching buildings might play in the larger campus and community context.

TAGS: integrated planning, Sustainability, Learning Space Design, Small Private Liberal Arts, Large Public Research

Sustainable Residence Life "Flexible Living Unit" Design
Presenter(s): Connie Frazier, Director of Residential Programs, Angelo State University; John Russell, Director, Facilities Planning & Construction, Angelo State University; Randall Scott, President & Chief Executive Officer, Randall Scott Architects, Inc

Residence halls can be designed to provide for freshmen, upper-division and graduate student needs through this unique "Flex-Unit" concept. These sustainable residence life facilities can quickly adapt to all types of students and demographics over a 50-75 year life cycle thereby reducing the number of residence hall types needed on a campus and future landfill requirements. This unique "Flex-Unit" allows residence life staff to provide 18 distinct living unit arrangements within a 1,200 SF module. Multiple "Flex Units" can easily be arranged to develop communities of varying sizes within a residence hall and tracked through BIM software.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Provide a sustainable residence hall with significantly lower life-cycle costs than traditional residence halls.
2. Accommodate all types of students' housing needs within one residence hall.
3. Increase student satisfaction by allowing them to select their own unit type resulting in increased revenues
4. Create various sized units, communities and cohorts within a given residence hall in conjunction with BIM (Building Information Modeling)

TAGS: Public Comprehensive, Student Residences, Learning Space Design, Sustainability

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA