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Integrated planning and design that optimizes development capacity and leverages campus growth can help institutions achieve ambitious resilience goals for net-zero energy and resource conservation for a healthier, more sustainable environment. This session will discuss Princeton University’s ongoing efforts to support an ambitious capital plan, address deferred maintenance, advance climate solutions, and maximize use of campus lands. The path to a sustainable campus future will require institutions to go beyond business-as-usual planning to rethink campus infrastructure—particularly energy, stormwater, and landscapes—and activate high-performance sites and buildings.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to effectively coordinate capital, infrastructure, and resilience planning efforts to maximize development capacity, discover efficiencies of scale, and meet climate goals.
2. Explain how to use an aggressive capital plan for a historic campus to lay the foundation for the sustainable energy infrastructure necessary to achieve net-zero carbon emissions for a healthier environment.
3. Find opportunities to leverage the performative value of every developable surface and space on campus to optimize land use and contribute to campuswide sustainability goals for energy, stormwater, and performative landscapes.
4. Optimize and overcome challenging site constraints using multi-dimensional approaches including the stacking of programming, stormwater management, and geoexchange systems.

Presenters:

Nicole Holmes, Sustainability and Innovation Practice Lead, Nitsch Engineering 
Thomas Nyquist, Executive Director, Engineering and Campus Energy, Princeton University
Daniel O’Shaughnessy, Senior Associate Principal, Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Natalie Shivers, Associate University Architect, Princeton University

Continuing Education Units: AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM24C2647) | AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Delivered 03/05/2024.

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