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Facilities Planning
Facilities Planning is responsible for providing CSU campuses with technical assistance and planning support when they propose revisions to their master plans or request capital projects including new buildings and renovation of existing facilities. As the first point of campus contact, our focus is to provide guidance towards the development of facilities that meet the educational needs of students while making campus operations as efficient and sustainable as possible.
Creating more environmentally responsible buildings and campus plans not only reduces negative impacts on the environment but also furthers the educational mission of the CSU by making sustainability visible and recognizable as an essential part of the built environment.
Facilities Planning works in unison with the rest of CPDC to ensure that sustainability goals are incorporated in every aspect of planning for the program, design and budget of CSU facilities.
Current CPDC efforts at the Chancellor’s Office include:
- Reviewing the potential for incorporating sustainability measures in buildings during the feasibility phase of planning
- Promoting facilities of high durability, flexibility and long term use expectancy
- Encouraging pedestrian oriented campus designs; siting buildings for optimal use of microclimate, solar orientation, photovoltaics, and other energy conservation measures
- Ensuring existing building space is used as efficiently as possible and occupied to the fullest extent before constructing additional facilities
- Promoting renovation and reuse of existing buildings
- Evaluating existing buildings for optimum systems efficiency and upgrading with more efficient systems
- Reducing paper, plastic and water consumption during daily operations and incorporating recycled materials to the greatest extent possible
- Learning from our collective experience; training others in sustainable practices
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Last Updated: August 23, 2007
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