Inception to Implementation

1. Inception to Implementation Teaching Sustainability – Peak to Peak Project 2011 Moe Tabrizi, Director Office of Sustainability

2. Steps • Inception • Implementation • Success • Challenge Live Green

3. Campus Goals • Governor’s Executive Orders for “Greening of State Government” by 2012 • Reductions in energy, water, zero waste goals, paper and waste from construction and demolition, and fleet petroleum • Long-term campus commitment to reach carbon neutrality • Energy conservation • Large scale renewable energy • New technologies • Challenge: Tangible steps towards our goal but unable to show date certain CO2 neutrality

4. Governor’s Goals

5. Big Picture Sustainability People Profit Planet Faculty Students Staff

6. Why LEED? • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a set of progressive and best practice recommendations/standards set forth by U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to promote sustainable building design and construction. • Shifts discussion from initial costs to long-term operating costs

7. LEED Gold “Plus” Strategy • To support our near term goal of energy conservation and long-term goal of carbon neutrality, it makes sense to continue with our goal of LEED Gold and go deeper into the category of Energy and Atmosphere (>45% better than ASHRAE 90.1) during current period of campus expansion.

8. Green Buildings Projects under construction/renovation and on track to receive at least LEED gold – Campus benefits from LEED standards – minimal design and construction costs result in energy savings of 25% - 35%; investment payback to achieve Gold standard takes roughly 1-2 years.

9. Wolf Law School – LEED Gold

10. Campus benefit from LEED

11. Campus Renewable Energy • 100% financing of Solar PV by campus and 3rd party venture capitalists using: • Amendment 37 incentives, • Xcel rebates, • Tax credits, and • Accelerated depreciation charges. Center for Innovation and Creativity– 370 newly installed Solar PV Panels at the CINC building will produce approximately 10% of the building’s annual energy needs – enough energy for 20 regular sized homes. Williams Village North – This summer the Solar PV panels on the parking car ports begin adding 140,000 kWh of energy per year.

12. Campus Renewable Energy Mountain Research Station Coors Event Center Housing Maintenance Facility Challenge:Expanding on-site renewable energy; space (land/roof); declining rebates and incentives and price point. Wolf Law School – live monitoring

13. Energy/Water Conservation in Research Labs Why do you focus on Research labs? Labs are 5-7 times more energy and water intense than campus classrooms or general offices.

14. CU Green Labs Program • Focusing on: • Major plug loads and large equipment • Incentive programs to retire or upgrade old energy and water inefficient lab equipment and appliances (Fume hoods, refrigerators, ultra cool freezers, etc.) • Offer free timers, freezer/refrigerator maintenance program • Identifying EcoLeaders • Behavioral Change: Education, Communication program, posters, etc. Challenge: Getting the information to the researcher, speaking their language, accomplishing without incentives.

15. Faculty Engagement – Peak to Peak Project • 50 faculty members signed up for a two day sustainability workshop to integrate sustainability into syllabi. • Faculty participation is a critical step to more formidably integrating sustainability across the broader curriculum at CU. • Opportunity to expand and solidify the community of faculty interested in creating a collegial community around sustainability. • Attendees will each receive a $500 stipend after successfully incorporating sustainability into at least one of their upcoming courses. • CU-Boulder faculty and staff are the speakers at the workshop.

16. Integrated Pest Management Task Force • Goal: Turf and landscape areas synthetic pesticide free by 2016 • Collaboration between students, the Environmental Center, Facilities Management, and Housing and Dining Services • Reductions in the highest student use areas first, • Significant reductionin chemical exposure to students, faculty and staff in its first year of implementation, • Substantial environmental and ecosystem benefits realized within the first five years of the program.  • Challenge:Perceptions, logistics, implementing a project with no direct cost benefit.

17. Conservation Opportunities and Deferred Maintenance (DM) • Deferred Maintenance refers to opportunities to repair of replace building systems in need of attention. • Significant investment to stay current. Most campuses unable to maintain the needed investment. • There are strong correlations between attending to deferred maintenance backlog and achieving resource conservation goals. • Combine DM Funds and Conservation funds in favor of reducing DM level where possible. • Examples of DM opportunities in an old building • Lighting control improvement, • Motors, • HVAC controls, • Building Envelope. Challenge: Problem scale; ongoing collaboration between operations and conservation groups; age of buildings.

18. Total Electricity Usage

19. Total Electricity Usage/SqFt

20. Total Potable Water Usage

21. Total Potable Water Usage/SqFt

22. Campus Energy Intensity UCB Total Energy Use and Square Footage

23. Telling the story… Grassroots Summer Printing Initiative Zero Waste Initiative Campus Sustainability Map • Challenge: Pre-conceived perceptions, cultural values, keeping the message exciting and new.