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Conference Presentations

A Campus Decarbonization Plan to Advance Climate Justice in Our Communities
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Major Step for Solar Heating
Conference Recordings

Achieving a Carbon Neutral Campus Infrastructure

 In order to achieve their ambitious goal of decarbonization by 2035, Swarthmore College carried out the design and planned implementation of new campus energy systems. Learn how to apply their valuable strategies to create a sustainable decarbonized environment for your campus community.
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

Achieving Net-zero Emissions With No Capital and No Debt
Conference Recordings

Achieving Net-zero Emissions With No Capital and No Debt

 The reduction of campus carbon emissions requires large investments in infrastructure, which is challenged by the realities of budgetary pressures.
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.
Webinar Recordings

Beyond Budget Cuts

 This webinar will demonstrate–with real-world data and examples–how real-time occupancy data is transforming higher ed space management, HVAC, and custodial cleaning strategies.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

 By integrating historic buildings into your campus planning, their continued reuse can help solve some of the specific challenges facing university planners today.
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 Recordings

Complexity and Contradiction: Integrating Decarbonization Planning and Actions

 Campus decarbonization requires flexible and adaptable approaches at all scales. Determining the appropriate mix of action plans helps campuses prepare for an increasing number of existing building performance and carbon reduction policies.
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.
Conference Recordings

Drilling Through the Carbon Barrier

 As a model for other institutions, we'll contextualize and detail two of the largest and deepest ground-source heat pump-chiller systems used to unlock campus-wide carbon neutrality—at Boston University and Ball State University.
Conference Presentations

Energy Master Planning to Reduce Carbon Emissions

 This session will provide you with tools to engage in meaningful campus discussion about implementing a transition away from fossil fuels for heating and cooling and achieving net zero carbon emissions.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Financial Planning for Central Utility Plant Decarbonization

 Vital stakeholder feedback and consensus from various university departments reveal the proper approach to building issues. Institutions such as the University of North Dakota used technical planning to produce well-informed financial modeling and right-sized financial plans.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Living Buildings to Living Campuses

 By living and learning in an environmentally conscious community, students learn to consider the impact of their everyday decisions.
Conference Presentations

Going All Electric: Creating A Catalyst for Campus Decarbonization
Conference Recordings

How a Substation Project Enabled a New Academic Research Building at Penn

 This session will explore how the University of Pennsylvania is achieving new student learning and research spaces within an infrastructure project.
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

Managing Your Historic Campus Facilities in Today’s Resource-Constrained Environment

 How are you addressing your campus’ historic facilities with so many competing needs for limited resources? This webinar will outline strategies for the management of historic properties on college and university campuses, with guidelines, standards, and best practices to address a wide range of concerns dealing with historic facilities.
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 Presentations

Planning Pathways to Carbon Reduction
Conference Recordings

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

 Buildings are a major source of carbon emissions.
Conference Presentations

Pursuing Carbon Neutrality Through Campus Master Planning

 Climate commitments and carbon neutrality are becoming top priorities for many campuses.
Conference Presentations

Putting the Green in Infrastructure
Example Plans

RELLIS Campus Master Plan

 Detailed campus master plan documentation for the institution’s innovation campus.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Stepping Toward Carbon Neutrality

 The University of Louisville’s Planning, Design, and Construction Office strategically used campus planning efforts to collect data, analyze the built environment, and foster robust stakeholder engagement with the campus community and city agencies.
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.
Webinar Recordings

Transforming CSU Monterey Bay With the Living Community Challenge

 California State University-Monterey Bay (CSU-MB) is the first university campus to register for the Living Community Challenge, becoming a model for how university campus design and planning can have a profound impact beyond the campus. We will discuss how our 2018 Architecture at Zero award-winning wellness and recreation design solution is transforming CSU-MB into a healthy, sustainable, net-positive environment.
Conference Recordings

Universities on Fire

 This session explores the impact of climate change on higher education and how academia may respond.