Master PLANNING TO ACHIEVE More SUSTAINABLE CAMPUSES -- UW Oshkosh Examples

1. Master PLANNING TO ACHIEVE More SUSTAINABLE CAMPUSES-- UW Oshkosh Examples Mike Lizotte UW Oshkosh Director of Sustainability October 1, 2010

2. Advice to Sustainability Officers and Committees: • It’s never too early to learn your campuses schedule and process for Master Planning and start asking when sustainability will be incorporated • Be aware that other planning exercises may be the prelude to Master Planning (e.g. Strategic Planning)

3. UW Oshkosh is working on its Master Plan • -- three perspectives for Sustainability • Sustainability Plan recommendations and goals are being cited to drive planning • Sustainability Goals = State Goals, which drive planning • Recommendations and goals of other campus units create new challenges to sustainability

4. Sustainability Plan  Master Plan: Example • Transportation Goal: Reduce single-occupancy automobile commuting by 20% • Past Concern in Master Planning: more parking • UWS supported additional contractor support for a transportation study to consider: • Parking Space Count and Policies • Off-campus Street Parking • Bike Parking • Bike and Pedestrian Pathways • Transit Systems

5. Sustainability Goals = State Goals : Example • Stormwater Goal: Reduce pollutant loads to meet state 2013 deadline • Past Concern in Master Planning: flooding • UWS supported additional contractor support for a stormwater study to: • Model pollutant loads • Recommend structural solutions

6. Main Campus: • About half of land is building or paved • Flat, not many places to collect water • Short trip to the river by pipes

7. Transportation: • Maintain same # parking spaces as we grow • Stormwater: • Add infiltration to/near parking lots • Result is not ideal: • More acres for Parking+swales • Still does not meet state stormwater goals

8. Other campus units create new challenges to sustainability – Example A revenue-generating campus division would like to air condition their buildings -- engineering studies show it will increase cooling by 60%.

9. Other campus units create new challenges to sustainability – Example A revenue-generating campus division would like to air condition their buildings -- engineering studies show it will increase cooling by 60%. Sustainability Impacts: -- 18% increase in electricity use -- 7% increase in greenhouse gas emissions -- Counter to Sustainability Plan recommendation to cool fewer buildings in summer -- Shows that our bottom line is single (financial), maybe double (comfort = social), but not yet triple (including environmental)

10. To Complicate Matters, they are a unit that is promoting sustainable living and buildings: New Residence Hall • Currently in Design • LEED Gold • Solar Thermal • Geothermal

11. Increase Cooling by 60% -- Sustainability Director Response • My Initial Thoughts: #$%&*@

12. Increase Cooling by 60% -- Sustainability Director Response • My Initial Thoughts: #$%&*@ • After sleeping on it and discussing with Facilities Director: • If they can generate revenue – they can buy green power • Would address the increase in greenhouse gases • Would not address conservation goals

13. Increase Cooling by 60% -- Sustainability Director Response • My Initial Thoughts: #$%&*@ • After sleeping on it and discussing with Facilities Director: • If they can generate revenue – they can buy green power • Would address the increase in greenhouse gases • Would not address conservation goals • This may be similar to our old approach to Parking (everyone knew we had a shortage – so know one asked for evidence or rationale) • Ask for a formal study of demand for summer housing? • Incorporate conservation and management plans into the future cooling need estimates – design may be too generous?

14. QUESTIONS? Kate Sullivan UW System, Director of Facilities Planning Mike Lizotte UW Oshkosh, Director of Sustainability