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Smart and Sustainable Campuses
Smart and Sustainable Campuses Links
November 3-4, 2005
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Co-sponsored by EPA, SCUP, APPA, and the University of Maryland College Park
For the past several years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused on colleges and universities to see how they were faring with their various environmental issues. EPA discovered that this is a complex task because campuses are analogues of small cities, within which many activities that impact the environment take place. In addition to their historic roles as important components in their surrounding communities, population growth and changing demographics has caused many colleges and universities to expand outside of their traditional campus boundaries. This expansion brings about another level of environmental impacts including the efficient use of land, transportation and parking, community and economic development, as well as issues of equity and community relations.
This conference will bring together university and college leaders in the areas of campus planning and development, finance and business, facilities management, environmental health and safety, procurement as well as decision-makers in college and university towns.
The purpose of the conference is to share innovations and solutions. To do this, the conference will consist of concurrent sessions, implementation roundtable workshops sessions and innovative plenaries. We anticipate that attendees will return to their campuses prepared to develop or implement comprehensive master plans and undertake significant sustainability practices on their campuses. This effort will require a commitment of facility planners, sustainability coordinators, administrators, faculty, staff and others to ensure the development of smart and sustainable learning environments. Best practice concurrent sessions and roundtable workshops are evolving as follows.
- Agenda — Preliminary conference agenda at a glance
- Concurrent Sessions — These sessions will be a chance to share best practices in the areas of smart growth, transportation, energy, green building, finance, facilities management, mobility, parking, equity, and town/gown relations.
- Workshops — In conjunction with the conference and supported by EPA, SCUP will host 3-hour roundtable workshops that will feature campuses that are currently in the initial stages of a project addressing campus environmental issues. Each workshop will feature one school. Representatives from selected project teams will present an overview of their project. A panel of experts will respond with their observations and recommendations and suggest alternative strategies to maximize project benefits. SCUP will select schools for these workshops through a competitive process. Project teams will receive complementary registration to the conference, some funds for travel, national visibility and pending availability, funds for implementing the updated projects on campus. More information about this assistance effort
. - Registration — There is a conference fee of $300 which includes all presentations and meals. All participants should register on-line . (AIA Continuing Education credits available.)