ERAPPA 2009 - Portland

Sustainable

Developing a Climate Action Plan with the Campus Carbon Calculator 

Anne Stephenson, Clean Air-Cool Planet

The Campus Carbon Calculator^TM is the leading tool for assessing campus greenhouse gas emissions. The newly-released version 6 includes new Projection and Solutions Modules designed to help campuses evaluate and strategically bundle their emissions reductions options based on quantitative analyses of the financial and emissions-related impact of potential policies and projects.  Participants will learn how to use the new planning module of the Campus Carbon Calculator^TM to compile their own climate action plans in a structured, rigorous way that ties back seamlessly to their GHG inventories. 

Facilities Planning 

The Facilities SOS: Smart Opportunities for Savings

Norman Young,  University of Hartford; Janet Waldron & Steve Peary,  University of Maine; James Kadamus, Sightlines, LLC

The unprecedented financial crisis has facilities and finance professionals sending out an SOS, looking for help on how to identify savings and efficiencies without reducing services and falling into a cycle of more rapid deterioration.  Learn how two campuses use data to gain knowledge to implement smart opportunities for savings.

People        

Responding To Emergencies On Campus - An Easier More Effective Way

Robert J. Gleason, STV Security Solutions Group

This session will focus on the complexities of critical incidents and innovative ways to more effectively respond to those incidents on campus.  The audience will take away an array of meaningful technology enabled solutions and best practices currently being used by emergency and crisis response organizations.  The solutions discussed will deal with all aspects of the response process to include formulating the campus crisis plan, implementing the plan, the importance of checklists, and the crisis management team.  The presentation will be applicable to personnel in every office on campus.  Anyone who is concerned about the safety of the campus and who will assist when a crisis occurs will benefit from the presentation.  Level of complexity is for beginners

Potpourri

A Decade of In-filled Synthetic Turf: Did They Perform As We Imagined, And What Do We Do Now? 

William Seymour, P.E., Gale Associates, Inc.; Jean Robinson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

A decade ago, facilities managers "imagined" safer, more durable athletic fields. "Infilled" synthetic turf was introduced in 1998 with claims of more grass-like appearance and performance. Despite a lack of data, infilled turf systems quickly displaced AstroTurf-type carpets. Gale Associates and the UMass Lowell will discuss the infilled turf installed in 2000 and replaced in 2009. The presentation will detail actual performance data, maintenance costs, safety data, and replacement planning.

Utilities/Energy    

Sustaining Campus Utility Load Growth: Infrastructure Upgrades versus Load Reduction Strategies

David Madigan, van Zelm Engineers; Stephen Shadford, P.E., CEM, LEED AP, Dartmouth College

Significant operating cost savings can be realized using energy conservation projects as a strategy to eliminate increasing the capacity of utility infrastructure. This presentation examines the use of energy conservation projects as "Demand Side Management" tools to eliminate or minimize costs associated with increasing the capacity of campus utility systems.