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SEPTEMBER 2011
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❯ ❯ EDUCATION ❯
Rolling Out LEED-EBOM
Across the Campus
Efforts now underway should save time and money for
facility managers who want to certify multiple buildings
by dan ackerstein
Without question, LEED for Existing Buildings:
Operations and Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) is
challenging. And for Andy Coghlan, it’s even more so —
indeed, Coghlan has an enormous task. As the sustainability
specialist for the University of California’s Office of
the President (UCOP), Coghlan helps coordinate efforts on
10 campuses in the University of California system as they
develop and implement sustainability strategies to keep
the nation’s largest college system on the cutting edge of
sustainable operations.
UC’s 10 campuses are made up of over 17,000 acres of
land, serving 400,000 students and staff. They include 5,755
buildings encompassing 122 million square feet. Recently,
the UC system has instituted a goal of LEED-EBOM Silver
certification on campus buildings over 50,000 square feet
(except for “acute and patient care buildings, and buildings
scheduled for demolition or major renovations”).
The UC system understands LEED, and EBOM specifically
— by the end of 2010, five campuses had about 50
LEED-certified buildings under various versions of the rating
system, with many more in the pipeline. The UCOP’s
own office was certified under the LEED-EB system in
2007. So Coghlan’s problems aren’t technical sophistication
or even selling sustainability to his campuses; it’s more an
issue of implementing LEED-EBOM at scale, given severe
budget and staffing constraints.
It’s a process on which Coghlan and the rest of the UC
campuses are hard at work to systemize.
Rock Hall at the University of California, San
Francisco is a LEED-EB Silver facility.
EILEEN JUE, UCSF