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Planning for Higher Education Journal

Building Better Buildings: Sustainable Building Activities in California Higher Education Systems

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From Volume 31 Number 3 | March–May 2003
By Arnold Sowell, Amanda Eichel, Leon Alevantis, Mo Lovegreen
Planning Types: Campus Planning

The State of California has initiated a number of policies and programs to integrate sustainable building practices into the state’s capital outlay process. Many of these efforts involve new levels of teamwork between diverse state programs and departments. The state’s higher education systems have begun to show a strong level of commitment to sustainable building and have implemented a number of sustainable building measures within their organizations. This article (1) outlines the activities and recommendations of the task force, (2) discusses sustainable building activities in California’s higher education systems, and (3) highlights key issues that California is grappling with in its implementation of sustainable building practices.

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