Saturday, July 19, 2008, 8:30 AM–5:00 PM
Creating a Sustainable Campus Community Through Integrated Planning
Presenters: Dale Braun, Campus Planner, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Kelly D. Cain, University of Wisconsin–River Falls
Audience: This workshop is for any campus planner, organizer or administrator who is beginning to develop and integrate sustainability as a core value into their campus planning process.

Wonder how to get past those 'showstopper' comments and onto the real work of creating sustainable practices that bring inter- and intra-campus communities together? Sustainability-focused institutions recognize that success lies in developing an integrated strategy that (1) ties sustainability to its core mission and is supported by senior leadership, (2) merges the planning efforts of academic, student life, resource, and facilities professionals on campus, (3) lobbies for support from key constituents both on and off campus, and (4) identifies core funding. A good integrated plan addresses the kind of research, planning, implementation, and evaluation needed for a higher education environment. This workshop looks at a case of sustainable communities, the core ideas of sustainable communities, and the questions to ask in order to identify blocks and connect with others who want to move sustainability forward. Learn about the role that campus functions play within a sustainable community, best practices of long-term integrated sustainability planning, and gain new ideas for immediate campus action. You will build your understanding of:

1. Individual and campus impacts environmentally, socially and politically and how that information can aid in identifying and informing decision-making

2. The drivers behind sustainable communities, e.g., climate, peak oil, water, socio-economic disparity, etc.

3. Potential resources a campus can utilize to answer identified needs, and key pieces of the planning process

4. How to bring together key individuals into the planning process

Workshop includes workbook, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments.

Cost: $285US

Saturday, July 19, 2008, Noon–5:00 PM
Integrated Transportation-Land Use Planning Tools for College Campuses
Presenters: Thomas Adler, President, Resource Systems Group; Robert Chamberlin, Managing Director, Resource Systems Group; Robert H. Penniman, Executive Director, Campus Area Transportation Management Association, Inc.; Linda E. Seavey, Director/Campus Planning Services, University of Vermont; Joanna L. Whitcomb, Planner/Planning, Design & Construction, Dartmouth College; Erica Wygonik, Senior Associate, Resource Systems Group
Audience: Campus and university planners, developers, designers, and architects. Campus administrators who guide travel management initiatives and board policy will also find it helpful.

As more stringent environmental laws have come into effect, university-generated traffic and parking impacts have become the focus of increasingly more sophisticated neighborhood groups. This workshop uses the University of Vermont and Dartmouth College as case studies for the evolution of campus master plans that manage travel and parking to a high degree to minimize their impacts on public infrastructure and adjacent neighborhoods. Learn about the analytical tools and community outreach mechanisms used to develop travel and parking management plans, and to convey those plans to an often skeptical public. Learn four tools/processes to improve your master planning and to sell your plans to the public. You will also learn:

1. Preference surveying to determine the attributes necessary to induce participation in a travel management program

2. Computer traffic simulation

3. Estimating environmental impacts (greenhouse gas emissions of alternative plans)

4. Participation in a Transportation Management Association. Peer-to-peer exchanges will solidify this value by providing additional information from practitioners on what has been successful and unsuccessful in this area.

Analytical tools such as computer simulations, stated preference modeling, and greenhouse gas estimations will become mainstay approaches to campus planning in the coming decade. Participants will gain a better understanding of state of the art tools and mechanisms for developing and following through on campus master plans.

Workshop includes workbook and refreshments. Grab an early lunch before the workshop!

Cost: $200US

Monday, July 21, 2008, 1:15 PM–2:15 PM
Keywords: Sustainability
Is LEED Affordable?
Presenters: Bryna C. Dunn, Director/Environmental Planning & Research, Moseley Architects; Robert L. Fenning, Vice President/Administration and Finance, Old Dominion University; George C. Nasis, Managing Principal/Higher Education Studio, Moseley Architects
This data driven presentation is designed to provide university and college administrators and their consulting design team with a long term perspective when considering sustainable design strategies for future projects on their campuses. We will track the energy and operating cost performance of 6 LEED Certified education projects, including five (5) completed for higher education over the past 3 years, and compare these savings to the capital cost premiums,if any, resulting from LEED Certification.
TAGS: Sustainability; Performance Measures; Budget Planning; Research Focused Institution

Monday, July 21, 2008, 1:15 PM–2:15 PM
Keywords: Living/Learning Environments: Pedagogy/Stud. Dev.
Learning Communities: A Model for Creating the Holistic Learning Environment
Presenters: Bev Wood, Senior Planner, URS Corporation
As colleges and universities engage more fully with their host communities to explore synergistic planning and development opportunities, the model for creating 'learning communities' must expand to include multi-generational, public/private, sustainable environments where learning occurs on and off campus, formally and informally, directly or tangentially. This model will focus on planning and designing vibrant, livable and sustainable communities that are enriched by, and infused with, learning opportunities. The discussion will focus on blending campus and community planning in support of the educational institutuion's mission to provide lifelong learning opportunities and the communiti's goal to create social, economic and environmental vibrancy.
TAGS: Partnerships; Sustainability; Town Gown

Monday, July 21, 2008, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM
Keywords: Sustainability
What Do We Do Now? How to Respond to Your President's Climate Commitment
Presenters: Elaine Clark, Associate Vice President/Administration & Finance, University of Maine; Greg Havens, Senior Associate, Sasaki Associates, Inc; Robert C. Hicks, Senior Project Manager, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates; Laura A. Hyatt, Assistant Professor II, Biology Department, Rider University; Jason Kliwinski, Director, Sustainable Design, Spiezle Group, Inc; Alexandria Roe, Director, Planning & Project Development, University of Connecticut-Architectural & Engineering Services
The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is gaining momentum with over 475 signatories. What are the implications, and how do you implement this once your president signs the commitment? Presenters representing three institutions will share perspectives about their work through the cross disciplinary layers of design and implementation toward carbon neutrality and this new paradigm of greenhouse gas master planning. Conversations will include requirements of the ACUPCC, common sources/reduction strategies for greenhouse gas planning, integration with master planning, LEED(tm) correlation to ACUPCC goals, social/environmental/economic benefits, and opportunities to use this as a teaching tool.

The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is gaining momentum with over 475 signatories. What are the real implications of this for an institution, and how do you implement this once your president signs the commitment? Presenters representing three institutions will share perspectives from their work through the cross disciplinary layers of design and implementation toward carbon neutrality and this new paradigm of greenhouse gas master planning. Conversation includes requirements of the agreement, common sources/reduction strategies for greenhouse gas and integrating it with master planning, and opportunities to use this as a teaching tool.
TAGS: Sustainability; Integrated Planning

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Keywords: Learning Environments: Classrooms/Laboratories
Learning by Doing: The Use of Simulation Technology in High-Risk/High-Cost Learning Environments
Presenters: Roger Jaeckel, Director, Facilities Planning, California Maritime Academy; Steve Kreta, Academic Dean, The California Maritime Academy; Mark Nickerson, Vice President/Administration & Finance, California Maritime Academy
Simulation technology has achieved a level of sophistication that enables educational institutions to develop learning laboratories that were impossible to create until recently. The California Maritime Academy (CMA) conceived, designed, built and opened a Simulation Center this past year that allows its students to operate a variety of vessels, under virtually any condition, with a degree of realism that is startling. They are able to monitor simulated oil spills and manage multi-faceted crisis management scenarios as well. You will receive a brief history of the uses of simulation technology; the opportunities and challenges encountered in creating this world-class facility; and a virtual tour of the building and its labs.
TAGS: Student Learning; Sustainability; Crisis Management; Learning Space Design; Teaching Focused Institution

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Vendor Presentation
Speed, LEED, and Greed (Revenue Generation)
Presenters: Christopher R. Haupt, Architect, L. Robert Kimball & Associates
Medlar Field at Lubrano Park is a new 5,500 seat, 130,000 square-foot, baseball park on Penn State University's Campus in State College, Pennsylvania. The facility is shared by the Penn State University baseball team and The State College Spikes, a Minor-League team from the New York-Penn League.

Medlar Field at Lubrano Park is the world's first LEED Certified Basball Park. By establishing sustainable design goals early in the project with all stakeholders, and through a commitment to the program by the CM and a Commissioning Agent, the certification was possible. Some of the sustainable strategies employed included waterless urinals, transportation credits, permeable paving, green power, 87% recycled construction waste, 27% of materials with recycled content, and more.
TAGS: Partnerships; Town Gown; Sustainability

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM
Keywords: Master Planning Models (includes land use)
A New Grounds Plan for UVA: A GIS Based Plan
Presenters: Julia Monteith, Senior Land Use Planner, University of Virginia; David J. Neuman, Architect for the University, University of Virginia
For the first time, the University has completed a comprehensive assessment of its lands in terms of infrastructure, transportation, circulation, biohabitat and natural systems to develop the new Grounds Plan; providing guidance in land-use decision making for the next twenty years. Using state-of-the-art geographic information systems(GIS) technology, it can be simply updated to allow strategic assessments of physical planning alternatives in the future; resulting in the University's ability to predict the consequences of its growth.
TAGS: Sustainability; Open Space; Geographic Information Systems; Simulations; Research Focused Institution

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM
Keywords: Sustainability
Reconciling a Sustainability Failure: Green Planning But No Green Building
Presenters: Mark J. O'Gorman, Associate Professor–Political Science & Environmental Studies, Maryville College
Sustainability success stories abound, but what can be learned from a sustainability failure? In East Tennessee, USA, one college with a positive history of environmental initiatives initiated a major campus renovation and new construction project. Sustainability advocates tried, unsuccessfully, to convince the institution to commit to green-certified construction. This retrospective of the failed fight (to date) of institutionalizing campus physical plant sustainability provides lessons on the obstacles found, and partial successes achieved, when ecology, campus politics and capital campaigns collide.
TAGS: Sustainability; Change

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM
Vendor Presentation
A Walk in the Park (ing): Lessons in Parking Structure Sustainable Design
Presenters: Di Botejue, Project Manager, International Parking Design (IPD); Don Marks, Principal, International Parking Design (IPD); Clifford E. Smith, President, International Parking Design (IPD)
Learn how easy it is to apply sustainable design features into your next parking structure project as presenters highlight green initiatives in parking structure design. Integrated green features will be presented as well as explanations of how and why such features affect buildings.
TAGS: Sustainability; Parking

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM
Keywords: Sustainability
We Made It Smaller and Better: It's a Green Success
Presenters: Karen A. Cribbins-Kuklin, Associate Principal, Perkins + Will; Leta Stagnaro, Associate Vice President, Ohlone College; Douglas Treadway, President/Superintendent, Ohlone College
The Ohlone College Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology presented its vision to be a "College of the Future" at SCUP-40. The completed "Green" campus (LEED Gold, maybe Platinum) is a California community college designed to teach its academic focus as well as environmental stewardship through example, demonstration and inspiration. This Session presents the exciting outcomes to an ambitious vision and how collaboration between the College and its consulting team created an innovative outcome.
TAGS: Sustainability; Academic Planning; Facility Design; Teaching Focused Institution;Community College

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 3:30 PM–4:30 PM
Keywords: Sustainability
Developing Sustainable Master Plans: Hints, Heartaches, and Home Cures
Presenters: Robert Kennedy, Director of Energy Services, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott; Thomas J. Martin, Director, Design & Construction, Harvard Business School; Heather Taylor, Prinicpal, Project Executive, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C.
Global warming has become headline news as governments, businesses and consumers embrace sustainability. Higher education institutions and planners have the opportunity to lead this charge through the development of sustainable master plans. Presenters will discuss the elements of a sustainable master plan, including the benefits of incorporating an energy master plan. They will also address the challenges and solutions associated with implementation. The results of a survey of sustainable planning efforts currently underway on campuses will be presented.
TAGS: Sustainability; Master Planning; Performance Measures

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM
The Global Green Tsunaimi: Green Building Trends
Presenters: Kevin R. Hydes, Vice President, Buildings Engineering, Stantec Inc

TAGS: Sustainability, Tactical and Strategic Planning for carbon reductions

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM
Keywords: Sustainability
How Green Is It? EMERGY Analysis and Campus Planning
Presenters: Robin Hoffman, Associate Professor, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry; Timothy R. Toland, Assistant Professor, State University of New York
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry has developed a master plan that envisions converting a typical 1960's campus into a holistically designed sustainable environment. To evaluate how successful the plan met these goals, an EMERGY analysis is used to convert the dissimilar energy inputs required for each initiative into a comparable index. The results will be useful for assessing improved sustainability as measured against existing conditions, developing phasing plans, and prioritizing improvements. This presentation presents a case study for university planners.
TAGS: Sustainability; Performance Measures; Integrated Planning; Research Focused Institution

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM
Keywords: Facilities Funding: Project Costs/Benchmarks/Development/Financing
Funding Strategies for Sustainable Design and LEED Certified Project
Presenters: James Blount, Associate Principal, Perkins + Will; John Mlade, National Sustainable Design Research Manager, Perkins + Will
Our presentation will use two case-study projects to demonstrate how the design team can proactively participate in budgeting and goal strategy development for sustainable design projects.

Attendees will learn of a variety of green-design resources and sustainable design/engineering funding sources available to pay for professional fees and project (bricks and mortar) costs.

This topic discussion and small work group session will benefit building owners, facility planners, designers & construction representatives and design professionals who find themselves in a position of trying to fund and/or design sustainable projects.
TAGS: Sustainability; Facility Design; Research Focused Institution