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Benchmarking for Sustainability

Presenter(s): Jerry Yudelson, Interface Engineering Inc.
Convener: Clifford D. Resnick, University of Massachusetts

Sustainability means many things to many people yet there are clear standards available for benchmarking new and existing facilities. Attendees will learn how to use standards from the U.S. Green Building Council (the LEEDĀ system), the Natural Step and various other green building rating systems to develop campus-wide and system-wide standards for sustainability. You will learn how to respond to sustainability policies, how to communicate with the relevant stakeholders, and how to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. Implications for marketing and fund-raising will also be presented.


This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-seventh annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–37, in San Diego, CA (USA), in July of 2002.

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