Campus Design Tiger Team

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Campus Design Tiger Team

• Presidents Forum Presentation
• February 27, 2008

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Campus Design Tiger Team

• William Harper, Chair, Head of the Department of
  Health and Kinesiology
• Robin Bellinger, Co-chair, Associate Vice
  President for Advancement
• Peter Caldwell, Student in Horticulture and
  Landscape Architecture
• John Collier, Director of Campus Planning
• Jamie Hendershot, CSSAC Member, Clerk, University
  Development Office
• Kim Lehnen, Administrative Assistant
• Paul Shepson, Professor of Chemistry, and Earth
  and Atmospheric Sciences
• Betty Suddarth, President of Purdue Retirees
  Association
• Kim Wilson, Professor of Horticulture and
  Landscape Architecture

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Campus Design Process

• Living our land grant mission as a public
  university
• Must signify and represent a thriving educational
  enterprise
• Addresses the overall functional, aesthetic and
  environmental quality of the campus, including
• landscaping, outdoor features, furnishings,
  transportation systems, quality of housing and
  recreational areas

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Campus Design Process

• Included over 40 Information Clusters
• APSAC, CSSAC, Physical Facilities
• Architecture, Landscape Design and Planning
  Committee
• BCC, LCC, Black Caucus
• Boiler Green Initiative (student group)
• Discovery Park Energy, Climate, Environmental
  Centers
• Intercollegiate Athletics, Learning Spaces
  Directors
• L/WL Economic Development Committee
• Retirees, Transportation Services, CityBus
• Sustainability Council
• WL Mayor and Staff

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Campus Design Process

• Open Forum and Blog Questions
• What do you like most about Purdues existing
  campus design?
• What do you like least about Purdues existing
  campus design?
• What would you most like to change with regard to
  Purdues future campus design?

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Campus Design Feedback

• What like most about existing campus design?
• Green/open space, tree paths
• Tradition of red brick
• Different shops/vending in facilities, new food
  courts
• Proximity of classrooms (10 minute rule)
• Connectivity to city by bus system
• International village
• Fountains

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Campus Design Feedback

• What like least about existing campus design?
• State Street division
• Transportation time to 65
• Campus signage
• Insufficient classroom space
• Insufficient lab and programs space
• Outdated recreation facilities
• Limited campus student housing
• Poor lighting in parking areas

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Campus Design Feedback

• Most like to change in future campus design?
• Become more pedestrian friendly
• Access for handicap and aging population
• More open areas and LEED certified buildings
• Better signage and mapping
• Additional parking
• Better lighting, particularly in remote parking
  areas
• Improved recreational facilities
• Provide a welcoming entrance
• Transportation options
• Consistency in technology across campus

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Sample Benchmarking

• Brown University
• Cornell University
• Iowa State University
• Michigan State University
• North Carolina State University
• Notre Dame
• Penn State University
• The Ohio State University
• Smith College of Liberal Arts
• University of Illinois
• University of Wisconsin Madison and Green Bay
• University of California at Santa Cruz
• University of California at Davis
• Virginia Commonwealth University

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First Core Vision A Living Laboratory

• Embodies what the university stands for
  learning, discovery and engagement
• Creates well-functioning and thriving community
• Pledge to a vision of balance and harmony
• Cultivates organic relationship of living parts
• A thing is right when it tends to preserve the
  integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic
  community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
  
• --Aldo Leopold, environmentalist

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Second Core VisionSustainability

• Sustainability is the ability to meet the needs
  of the present without compromising the ability
  of future generations to meet their own
  needs --1987 UN Word Commission on Environment
  and Development
• Ecological and environmental survival
• energy production, energy use and resource use
• Social equity
• employee diversity, fair compensation, respect,
  health, safety and security
• Economic vitality
• cost reduction, sustainable systems research
  funding, industrial partnerships, development and
  charitable contributions and investments

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Four Primary Initiatives

• Campus Living and Learning Initiative
• Accessibility Initiative
• Environmental Initiative
• Community Partnership Initiative
• The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind
  of world that it leaves to its children
• --Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian

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1. Campus Living and Learning Initiative

• Campus structure
• Vibrant learning community
• Connectedness between north and south campuses
• Compact and dense campus
• Renovations of existing buildings
• Signature buildings
• Open spaces
• Culturally diverse
• Green space
• Gathering spaces
• Safe and universally accessible walking paths

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1. Campus Living and Learning Initiative

• Art and culture
• More and a greater variety of public art
• Policy development, decision process
• Promote and expand museum art on campus
• Commissioned art from both well-known and lesser
  known artists
• Living and learning laboratory spaces
• Additional and well-designed classroom spaces
• Utilize residential and libraries spaces for
  learning needs

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2. Accessibility Initiative

• Signage and Wayfinding
• Purdue website as a navigational portal
• Implement the proposed wayfinding system
• Transportation Network
• Convenience and efficiency of public transit
  system
• Supplemental, two-way, campus transit loop or
  shuttle system
• Reduce traffic congestion
• Encourage alternative-vehicle usage
• Create a safe, interconnected, and efficient
  street system
• Safe, efficient, and easily accessible service to
  buildings
• Safe, convenient, universally accessible
  pedestrian paths.

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2. Accessibility Initiative

• Parking
• Redistribute facilities to better accommodate
  demands
• Establish financial incentives for carpooling,
  use of public transit and/or remote parking
• Regional Access
• Facilitate collaboration among local, state and
  federal agencies for direct regional access
• Find new uses and/or research collaboration
  opportunities for the Purdue Airport

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3. Environmental Initiative

• Organization
• Facilitate communication/collaboration among
  environmentally-related researchers
• Formalize the Sustainability Councils role
• Position for university sustainability director
• Promote sustainable best management practices and
  research

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3. Environmental Initiative

• Environmental Systems
• Expand energy inventories to establish a baseline
  for consumption
• Prioritize water conservation and reuse of
  captured water
• Manage storm water and wastewater discharge
• Increase reliance on production and use of
  renewable energy
• Support and use the ash recycling project

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3. Environmental Initiative

• Environmental Systems, Continued
• Accelerate tree preservation and planting program
• Reduce campus-produced solid and hazardous waste
• Commit to green building practices
• Sustainable best management practices
• Recycling investment

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3. Environmental Initiative

• Discovery and Outreach
• Publish assessment and measurement statistics
• Inventory and study greenhouse gas emissions
• Encourage more industrial partnerships
• Promote sustainability
• Maximize opportunities for students for research
• Reward personal responsibility for environment

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4. Community Partnership Initiative

• Sustainable economic development
• New economic business, residents opportunities
• Revitalize core residential and commercial areas
• Cultivate community/Purdue partnerships
• Public relations
• Partner with cities on planning and renovation
  efforts
• Promote student participation in community
  efforts
• Collaborate on marketing, branding, visitor
  publications
• Establish a campus/community marketing strategy
• Integrate multi-culturalism into the entire
  community
• Sell Purdue and cities as destination site
• Relax ticketing and towing policies during major
  events

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4. Community Partnership Initiative

• Good Neighbor Policies
• Expand role of Purdue-WL Community Partnership
  Team
• Become active stakeholder in Wabash River
  development
• Create friendly and welcoming campus environment
• Provide recreation facilities for students on
  weekends
• Work with CityBus to establish free service for
  major events.

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4. Community Partnership Initiative

• Extension of Living Laboratories
• Overcome physical, jurisdictional, social
  barriers
• Maximize partnerships that offer learning
  opportunities
• Extend physical facilities into the community
• Youth development, education and support programs
• Partner with local schools to improve graduation
  rates
• Support collaborations between Purdue and local
  mental health initiatives
• Science/College Bound programs for local youth

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Leadership Responsibility

• Campus Community
• Trustees, President, Provost, Executive Vice
  President and Treasurer
• Office of Engagement
• PRF
• Office of University Architect
• Discovery Park and Centers
• Office of Advancement Development, University
  Relations, Marketing and Communications
• Physical Facilities, Housing and Food Service
• Intercollegiate Athletics
• Employees, Students
• Partners
• State and government
• Municipal and community business leaders
• Corporate and industry constituents
• Community at large

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Resources

• Capital building projects
• RR
• Private support fundraising individuals,
  corporations and foundations
• Private partnerships and grants
• Tuition and fees
• Municipalities TIFS
• Federal and state money
• Bonds
• 21st Century Fund
• INDOT and Federal Highway
• Industrial partnerships environmentally
  friendly research, programs
• Energy savings reinvestment

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Examples of Metrics

• Cost reductions
• Number of sustainability projects funded
• Number of projects initiated by Purdue students
  and employees
• New project outcome measures
• Number and kind of training and certificate
  projects initiated
• Kinds and number of internships created with
  sustainability focus
• Resource recovery measures
• Carbon footprint changes
• Sustainability national grading
• LEED certifications earned
• Emission reductions
• Computer energy reductions
• Performance of building utilities
• Ecosystem preservation inventories
• National acknowledgment of campus environment

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Sustainability Report CardSustainable Endowments
Institute 2008

• Grade A University of Washington, Dartmouth,
  Middlebury College, Carleton College, University
  of Vermont, Harvard
• Grade B Oberlin, Stanford, Yale, Universities of
  Wisconsin, Michigan Minnesota, Cornell, Penn
  State
• Grade C Boston College, Ohio State, Indiana,
  Purdue, Universities of Maryland
  Massachusetts, Notre Dame
• Grade D Brown, Creighton, George Washington,
  Pepperdine, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Houston

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Campus Design Tiger Team

• Thank you