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Learning Resources

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

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.
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.
Example Plans

Campus Strategic Sustainability Plan
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Crafting the Master Plan: A Collaborative Challenge for Community Colleges

 Master planning can help an institution address major challenges, but you have to know how to do it right. This article examines the planning process, with special emphasis on community and consensus building, using case studies from two rapidly growing community college districts in Texas and California.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Lagging to Leading

 An integrated team of cross-discipline collaborators accomplished their objective of creatively reimagining athletic facilities at two institutions for the greater good of each campus and its community. Using sustainable and cost-efficient design opportunities and aligned technologies, they succeeded in countering the outdated stereotype of the athletic building as a lagging energy performer.
Conference Recordings

Learning From A Living Building

 The Kendeda Building, a deep green LEED Platinum Living Building, offers many lessons learned and best practices regarding net-positive water, energy, and waste that you can use to fight climate change and COVID-19 on your campus.