Campus Operations has long been involved in projects to make SJSU a more sustainable environment. An excellent overview covering the many impressive sustainability efforts of the San Jose State Facilities Development and Operations team, presented at the Academic Senate Retreat on Sustainability in October 2009, can be found here in this presentation of "Sustainability at Facilities Development and Operations" (PDF).
As part of San Jose State's commitment to sustainability, new buildings will be designed to at least LEED
Silver standards.
Find out more about SJSU's several LEED-certified goals and accomplishments.
Additional Sustainability projects at SJSU...
In 2004 we calculated that there was 9,000,000 kwh in potential energy reductions on campus and set about to reduce consumption.
Key initiatives include:
Campus Recycling is tasked with developing and implementing a comprehensive waste and recycling program. Facilities Management has been instrumental in making this program successful with a current solid waste diversion of aproximately 88%. It is interesting to note that our campus solid waste diversion rate was recently over 90%. However, as more sustainable "best practices" (e.g. recycling our tons of grass clippings) become common sense/common practice, instead of "extra," the actual result may be same or better overall sustainability, even while there is less measurable "additionality" for which to earn credit for these improved resource practices. This actually represents a larger and more promising shift, when looking at the big picture, and how we continue to improve our ways as a society. A PowerPoint presentation of campus recycling efforts and achievements is available here.
Facilities Development & Operations' (FD&O) Energy Utilities and Engineering group has been working to reduce the campus' need for energy for years. In Fall 2006, SJSU began a new phase in energy conservation by installing improved lighting products. They are also utilizing tools for Monitoring Based Commissioning (MBCx) - the process of making changes to optimize the efficiency of an existing building or system. SJSU is already benefiting from reduced energy use after these successful MBCx projects:
* Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
* Chilled Water System that delivers cooling to many of our buildings
* Central Plant Chillers
Spring of 2008, SJSU released a Greening of the Campus document stating its goal "to minimize the natural resources required to enable a successful learning environment".
Moss Landing Marine Labs was selected by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) as one of fifty buildings nationwide to pilot a new program for the Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) standards. MLML is currently EB Pilot--Gold and is attempting to recertify EB V2.0 Platinum.
In May, 2010 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library's lighting retrofit project was awarded the 2010 CSU Energy Efficiency Best Practice award in the lighting retrofit category! More information on project can be found here.
The SJSU/City of San Jose shared resource of the Martin Luther King Library was designed and built to meet LEED Silver standards.
Related information towards this certification process can be found here.
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