Sherwood’s John Leys spoke on Monday June 21 at the 2010 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference in Los Angeles. The conference is an annual event where UC staff, faculty, students, and a handful of professionals are invited to work through and set the future agenda for a variety of important issues in the UC system. John presented on both building-scale and campus-scale greenbuilding and green infrastructure systems as part of the Green Industry track.

The panel covered a range of issues as related to water and energy management in the UC system. John covered Sherwood’s experience with water management on building scale projects using UC Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law as a case study; on a building-complex scale, illustrated by our experience within the Barns complex at UC Riverside (which is composed of four buildings); and finally on the campus scale, using our experience planning green infrastructure systems within the Fort Scott district of the San Francisco Presidio.

An interesting item that John noted during the event is that UC Riverside didn’t have anyone in a “director of Greenbuilding” type role, whereas the other UCs have several people on staff with “sustainability” related titles. Not having the expertise on staff, UC Riverside had decided to hire an experienced group (including Fernau & Hartman, Timmons Design Engineers, and Sherwood) to advise them regarding sustainable building practices, energy systems, and water systems; an interesting approach to help them develop their plan for this unique and very visible project.

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