General Sustainability Announcements

When: Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Where: Wurster Hall, Room 112 (Auditorium)

Time: 12:30-2 pm

Speaker 1: Bruce Hammond

Title: Sustainable Design and Construction: A Builder's Viewpoint

Bruce Hammond is a general building contractor with over 25 years in light commercial and residential construction. From the beginning, a consistent and progressive focus of his company has been on identifying and utilizing construction technologies and practices which minimize impact on the environment, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency, resource conservation, and durability. He has also active in educating and consulting municipalities and county agencies to bring them up to speed about sustainable construction practices for their planning and building departments.

In this presentation, Bruce will offer us a viewpoint from in the trenches, and will speak to the current and ongoing challenges of building and managing "Certifiably Green" projects. How can a view of the structures of the past inform how we plan for a vital and nourishing future? How can we set and manage project targets so that buildings are performing as intended? What assessment criteria, tools and resources can we use? And what lessons can we learn from case studies?

Speaker #2: Cole Roberts

Title: Benefits and Limitations of Life Cycle Cost Analysis

Cole Roberts is a Mechanical Engineer and Senior Sustainability Consultant in Arup's San Francisco office, specializing in sustainable design, assessment, and consultation. Cole has an expansive background ranging from business and finance, climate responsive building engineering, LEED"/Labs21 consulting, master planning, development guidelines, and stakeholder engagement. He offers experience in the use of passive and active techniques to reduce the energy and water consumption of projects and improve their internal environmental quality, often incorporating life-cycle cost analysis, building information modeling, and the computer analysis of thermal comfort and building energy consumption.

This presentation explores the benefits and limitations of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA), the keys to success, and the application of LCCA as exhibited in an integrated design building project. With the increased recognition of the importance of sustainability in the built environment, there is now an increasing resurgence of the importance of well conceived and executed LCCA. As a growing number of developers and owners buy in to the argument that buildings are best designed with a long term view of performance in mind, the methodologies of LCCA are surfacing as one of the most effective ways of clearly informing the economic tier of triple bottom line decision making.

The Green Campus Program is looking for an experienced campus environmentalist for the position of Green Campus Program Coordinator for Spring Semester, 2008.

This position demands an organized self-starter who is intimately familiar with the UC Berkeley campus community and comfortable working with a team.

Responsibilities:

• successful implementation of the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program. Its goal is immediate energy savings on the Berkeley campus, primarily through low-cost technologies, and no-cost behavior changes.
  
• education of campus students, staff and faculty members on energy conservation
• specific objectives and workload will be consulted with the Team Leader and Program Associate.

Current Projects Include:

• Energy 101 DeCal Course
• Blackout Battles Energy Competition in Residence Halls
• Fume Hood "Shut the Sash" Campaign
• HAAS School of Business Energy Conservation Campaign
• Installing Vending Misers (energy saving devices) on Campus Vending Machines
• Light Bulb Exchange
• Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Retirement: Researching and changing out CRT monitors for LEDs (light-emitting diodide)
  
• Green Room, Green Apartment, and Green Suite demonstration areas
• Hall Staff Outreach
• Sustainability Week, Focus the Nation, and Earth Week Events
  

Required Qualities:

• a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student (freshman, sophomores, juniors are preferred)
• excellent written and oral communications skills
• comfortable with basic functions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Desired Qualities:

• strong experience in on-campus environmental activism
  
• specialized skills such as:
  
• engineering or technical knowledge
• graphic design, newsletter design, web design, or editing skills
• data analysis
• teaching at a college level
• public speaking
• managing budgets
• familiarity/previous working relationship with the Green Campus Program, other environmental groups, or DeCal program.
• familiarity/previous working relationship with campus staff and administrators

Payscale: Workload will vary from 5-15 hours a week, $10/hr. Position runs from date of hire until the end of the Spring Semester; the option to terminate at any time is available to both parties at all times.

To Apply: Send a resume, cover letter and writing sample to BerkeleyGreenCampus@gmail.com or contact Desirae Early at 909.921.5807 if you have any questions. Also, click here for the Green Campus website.

Due Date: Midnight, December 5th, 2007. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.

Mobile phones present a growing threat to the environment. As of 2007, there are more than 750 million mobile phones waiting to be recycled in the US; either in drawers, or already in our landfills. Another 150+ million or so will be added this year and even more next year. Once in the waste stream, these devices may leak Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Arsenic and other toxic substances into the water supply.

Throughout the month of November, drop off your old mobile devices (cell phones, pagers, chargers and PDAs) in one of the following campus locations:

506 Barrows Hall, Ethnic Studies Dept.
113 Campbell Hall, L&S Advising
202 Cesar Chavez, Gender Equity Resource Center
Cesar Chavez Student Learning Center
4229 Dwinelle Hall, French Library
101 Giannini Hall, C&R Dean's Office
200 Hearst Gym, Physical Ed. Office
103 Kroeber Hall, Anthropology Admin.
111 Koshland Hall, Plant and MCB Office
249 Mulford Hall, CRS Advising
120 Sproul Hall, Office of the Registrar
101 Stephans Hall, IAS
330 Wheeler Hall, English Lounge
232 Wurster Hall, Environmental Design
2240 Piedmont Ave., Legal Studies Department
Delta Gamma Sorority