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Lean management and sustainable practices in Higher Education Institutions of Brazil and Portugal: A cross country perspective
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- University of Minho
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the perception of Lean management practices and its influence on sustainability practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). The theoretical background was supported ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Optimizing University Campuses for Learning, Wellbeing and Equity: an Applied Study of Higher Education Facilities Organizational Systems
- Illinois State University (IL)
College and university campuses are designed and maintained by experts in facilities management and planning. What is lacking in these processes is expertise in learning environments and creating spaces that ...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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Sustainability & Facilities 101: Maximizing Collaboration
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD)
Sustainability and Facilities Management (FM) professionals and departments often are tasked with working closely together on various projects throughout campus. Many of these professionals, by nature of their work, are ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Campus Energy-Efficiency Project (CEEP)
- University of Utah (UT)
$30M project on the Health Science Campus of the University of Utah, to use energy-efficiency to avoid the need for an expensive chilled water (CHW) plant expansion.
- Posted May 26, 2021
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FY20 Energy-Efficiency Initiatives Project
- University of Utah (UT)
The first phase of a series of campus-wide projects to target carbon reductions.
The FY20 Energy-Efficiency Initiatives project targeted industry proven low-cost, fast-payback measures focusing on carbon neutrality and energy-efficiency ...
- Posted May 25, 2021
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University Stormwater Management within Urban Environmental Regulatory Regimes: Barriers to Progressivity or Opportunities to Innovate?
- Monash University (VIC)
- The Nature Conservancy (VA)
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
- University of Louisville (KY)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
U.S. public university campuses are held directly responsible for compliance with many of the same federal- and state-level environmental regulations as cities, including stormwater management. While operating as ‘cities ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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Herbicide-Free Campus: UCSB
- Herbicide Free Campus (CA)
This project sought to reduce synthetic herbicide use on the UC Santa Barbara Campus. There were three main aspects of this project: meeting with groundskeepers, passing resolutions in the student ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Sustainable Facilities Management: Interviews with FM practitioners for Malaysian universities
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Sustainability in Facilities Management (FM) is a new approach in managing buildings and may be influenced by practitioners involved within an organisation.Sustainability inthe organisation has a significant impact on ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Understanding facility management decision making for energy efficiency efforts for buildings at a higher education institution
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- Institut Teknologi Bandung (Jawa Barat)
Education buildings, as the third highest consumer of energy in the United States, provides significant opportunities to lower greenhouse gas emissions by increasing energy efficiency (EE). Higher education institutions (HEIs ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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UVA Clark Hall Delta Force Renovations
- University of Virginia (VA)
The University of Virginia's Office of Sustainability within the Facilities Management department developed and currently runs the Delta Force Initiative, an internal performance contracting program. that increases energy efficiency ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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