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Learning Resources

Energy Efficiency and Conservation

Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Major Step for Solar Heating
Conference Recordings

A New Plan for Building Green

 This session will focus on the next step in the evolution of green building and provide a comprehensive sustainability framework for responsible development with a holistic view of the campus and community wellbeing.
Conference Recordings

Achieving a Sustainable Campus Master Plan through Integrative Design

 This session will explore Princeton University’s campus master plan, which engages an ethos of sustainability through the lens of carbon emissions, landscape design, energy, and water efficiency, from design through construction.
Conference Presentations

An Integrated and Equitable Approach to Campus Decarbonization
Webinar Recordings

Approaches to Emissions Reduction

 In this panel, campus leaders will share how they are advancing sustainability through integrated planning—aligning facilities, finance, academics, and operations to move faster and smarter.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Degrees That Matter

 Greening the Ivory Tower and Degrees That Matter provide an enlightening case study of Tufts University’s sustainability initiatives over the past 17 years.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Energy Master Planning

 Higher education institutions can lead the way in reducing energy consumption and advancing carbon neutrality by starting with their on-campus facilities.
Example Plans

Campus Master Plan 2020–2039
Conference Presentations

Campus Planning for a Sustainable, All-electric, and Decarbonized Future
Conference Recordings

Campus Planning for a Sustainable, All-electric, and Decarbonized Future

 Buildings contribute over a third of global carbon emissions and are a key focus for decarbonization.
Example Plans

Campus Strategic Sustainability Plan
Conference Presentations

Decarbonize Your Campus Through Building Electrification
Conference Recordings

Decarbonizing Your Campus

 This session will discuss transitioning away from fossil fuels for campus heating and transportation and explore new technical, procurement, and phasing strategies to cost-effectively achieve carbon reduction and resiliency goals.
Example Plans

Environmental Impact Report

 In accordance with state requirements, the institution prepared a report to identify significant environmental impacts of implementing the new campus master plan.
Conference Presentations

Green Gauges

 Come learn how to use the green gauges methodology at your institution and discover the cost per metric ton of avoided carbon over the operation life of a particular strategy.
Webinar Recordings

LEEDv5

 This session explores how the newest rating system reframes sustainability around climate action, ecological restoration, and quality of life while raising the bar on decarbonization, electrification, resilience, embodied carbon, and transparency.
Webinar Recordings

Passive House Design and Residence Halls

 The session will discuss the basics of Passive House (PH) design, how it can both save energy and improve the quality of the interior environment. The presenters will illustrate how Passive House design has been incorporated from both a design and administrative standpoint at the new residence hall at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Conference Presentations

Planning and Implementing the Sustainable Campus of the Future

 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.
Conference Recordings

Planning, Designing, and Delivering a Fully-electric Dormitory in Toronto

 Buildings are a major source of carbon emissions.
Conference Presentations

Repurposing Mid-Century Campus Buildings for a New Generation

 In this session, we will explore how Binghamton University implemented a façade upgrade and high performance energy systems for deep energy retrofits for its Science IV building.
Conference Recordings

Right-size the Solution to Decarbonizing Your Campus

 Decarbonization is a looming challenge for every campus and a monumental effort that requires immediate, practical actions to preserve environmental health.
Conference Presentations

Right-size the Solution to Decarbonizing Your Campus
Conference Recordings

Setting Building Energy Standards

 Individual cities, states, and utility incentive programs are going beyond carbon neutral standards to embrace energy consumption limits—this session will present these new strategies as models and options for campus building energy standards.
Conference Recordings

Sustainability and Resiliency

 This session will discuss Rider University's energy master plan, which aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 through integrating facility management and future campus development as well as incorporating energy conservation and generation options.