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By Michael c. DaviDs Green Thinking at City Colleges of Chicago the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is the largest community college system in illinois and one of the largest in the nation, [ A rendering of the new Malcolm X College and School of Health Sciences, now under construction on Chicago’s Near West Side with 5,700 faculty and staff serving 115,000 students annu - ally at seven colleges and six satellite sites city-wide.
CCC is in the midst of a Reinvention, Those sustained efforts a collaborative effort to review and revise are already paying off. programs and practices to ensure students “From an environmen - leave CCC college- and career-ready. Its in - tal, economic and edu - ternationally-renowned College to Careers cational standpoint, initiative partners faculty and staff with strengthening City Col - industry-leading companies prepare leges’ sustainability ef - Chicagoans for careers in growing fields. forts is the right thing The City Colleges of Chicago includes to do,” states Chancel - seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, lor Cheryl Hyman. “For example, making of its colleges and satellite sites, CCC staff Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X Col - our energy use and buildings more effi - have gained a more sophisticated under - lege, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Tru - cient reduces the institution’s carbon foot - standing of energy use patterns and acted man College, Harold Washington College print, saves taxpayer dollars and to identify and realize efficiencies. and Wilbur Wright College. The system demonstrates to our students what sus - “This work is ongoing, and we antici - also oversees the Washburne Culinary In - tainability looks like in practice.” pate continued energy savings as our stitute, the French Pastry School, two building management techniques become Energy Efficiency Efforts restaurants, two cafes, five Child Develop - even more sophisticated,” says John Sug - ment Centers, the Workforce Academy, the During the last 10 years, City Colleges rue, Associate Vice Chancellor of Adminis - public broadcast station WYCC-TV Chan - of Chicago (CCC) has achieved significant trative Services for CCC. “From 2003 to nel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM 89.3. reductions in natural gas and electricity 2012, CCC’s annual energy usage has de - From its leaders and facility managers use through the successful adoption of en - creased by 600,000 Therms of natural gas to faculty and students, City Colleges has ergy-saving tools. By taking advantage of a and 13 million kilowatt hours of electric - in recent years worked to embed “Green new tool (Energy Connect) that gives real- ity,” adds Sugrue, who has been with CCC Thinking” at the center of its operations. time access to energy usage statistics at all since 2002. Over the last 10 years, these energy savings averaged $1.2 million a year from the 2003 baseline, saving the City Colleges, and thus taxpayers, signifi - cant money. The institution has seen ten straight years of improvements in this area. Savings during the last three years have been part of a $51 million reduction in operations costs that have been redi - service, installation design rected to the classroom. & To help achieve these energy efficien - for all your hvaC & process systems cies, CCC has used Energy Performance Contracting to automate its buildings and ~ Including ~ reduce energy usage. Building Automation HVAC SERVICES • CONTROLS • PIPING • ENERGY SAVING SOLUTIONS Systems (BAS), lighting retrofits, equip - PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE • FIRE PROTECTION • BACKFLOW PREVENTER CERTIFICATION ment upgrades, occupancy sensors and BOILERS • CHILLERS • PUMPS • REFRIGERATION variable speed controllers are paid for with future energy savings. These upgrades have given CCC building engineers the 24/7 EMERGENCY SERVICE tools they need to track energy usage in real time, find faulty equipment and set 847-22 9-7600 www.emcortmi.com schedules to reduce energy usage during
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[ Chicago Mayor Emanuel with CCC Chancellor Hyman at Olive-Harvey TDL Groundbreaking
unoccupied periods. percentage points above the Illinois Re - helped CCC find opportunities for daily Purchasing energy as a District, rather newable Portfolio Standard. During reduction in energy usage. CCC has also than as separate colleges, has helped CCC FY2014, 18 percent of CCC’s electricity begun piloting an energy usage program realize cost savings. Locking in long-term will be produced from renewable energy at two colleges and a satellite location that rates for electricity and having the flexibil - sources. allows the institution to target savings ity to choose when to lock in natural gas CCC has also found cost-savings by throughout the year. rates for the coming winter has proven to participating in a voluntary curtailment Additionally, CCC is now working be a cost reducing formula. Additionally, program that reduces electricity usage sys - with the Smart Energy Design Assistance City Colleges of Chicago has used aggre - tem-wide if the grid becomes unstable. Center (SEDAC) at the University of Illi - gated energy purchasing to increase re - Participating in this program has saved nois to audit its energy use. SEDAC started newable electricity procurement by ten more than $600,000 since 2008 and has working with CCC in January 2012 to
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4 ChiCagoland Buildings & environments spring 2014 cover story [ City Colleges students participate in Earth Day 2013 at Wright College retro-commission Kennedy-King College. CCC estimates that $150,000 in annual savings is possible at Kennedy- King through the introduction of tar - geted energy scheduling techniques. “City Colleges has always been mindful of energy use at its facilities throughout the city,” says Diane Minor, Vice Chancellor of Administrative Serv - ices, who oversees all of CCC’s facilities. “We decided to hire our first-ever Sus - tainability Manager in 2012 to strengthen our commitment to sustain - able practices and facilities. We continue to see energy efficiencies and savings Y John Brophy, Sustainability Manager at CCC Y New Olive-Harvey TDL Campus and are now incorporating sustainable and clubs that strengthen City Colleges’ ter’s degree in environmental manage - practices into all of our decisions.” commitment to sustainability. He is Co- ment and sustainability from the Illinois A New Sustainability Manager Chair of U.S. Green Building Council’s Illi - Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s John Brophy is City Colleges’ first nois Higher Education Sub-Committee. in political science from Boston College. Sustainability Manager. Since being hired Prior to joining City Colleges, Brophy Brophy’s role focuses on bringing sus - in November 2012, he has among other worked for Green Roof Solutions, a lead - tainable practices into the operations of things facilitated energy savings and recy - ing distributer of American-made green each of the City Colleges—and that in - cling initiatives, prepared applications to roofing components. He has also worked cludes major construction and renovation support the institution’s sustainability ef - for I-Go Car Sharing and was a consultant projects now underway across the city as forts and helped to plan facilities, classes with AllCell Technologies. He holds a mas - part of CCC’s $524 million, five-year capi -
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tal plan. The system’s two high-profile capital projects now under construction are both targeting LEED certification, and they’ve both been designed with input from College to Careers industry partners, who are helping to better align City Colleges’ curricula to workplace de - mands. Since the launch of College to Careers in December 2011, more than 100 industry partners have joined the ef - fort by committing to review curricula and offer City Colleges students and graduates first pass at internships and job opportunities. Y City Colleges Chancellor Cheryl Hyman Y Shown here is the Chicago Divvy Bike sharing program location at Truman College The New Malcolm X College and School of Health Sciences expected to come to the region over the Located adjacent to the Illinois Med - next decade. Slated to be completed in late ical District and across the street from the Mayor Rahm Emanuel and City Col - 2015, the new campus will host students current college at Jackson Blvd. and leges Chancellor Cheryl Hyman broke beginning in January 2016. Damen Ave., the 544,000 square foot new ground October 2nd on the new Malcolm “Here in Chicago, we are revolution - Malcolm X College, which is targeting X College and School of Health Sciences. izing the educational model by linking LEED gold certification, will be able to ac - Designed with input from healthcare in - highly-specialized, technical curriculums commodate approximately 22,000 stu - dustry partners, the $251 million campus with the needs of our local employers — dents, 6,000 more than today. (See sidebar will serve as the hub of the College to Ca - essentially creating a direct bridge between on the new campus’ sustainable design el - reers healthcare programs to prepare stu - students and jobs of the 21st century ements.) It will include a virtual hospital; dents for the 84,000 healthcare jobs economy,” Emanuel said. skill and simulations labs; state-of-the-art
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technology; a new conference facility with Of the approximately 950 jobs being cre - at the Daley College campus.” capacity for 1,300; and a student-accessi - ated through the project, the vast majority Olive-Harvey College’s New TDL Center ble green roof that will be irrigated by a will go to Chicagoans and up to 120 are rainwater harvesting system. (Another being made available to qualified appli - Chancellor Hyman was joined again CCC campus, Kennedy-King College, has cants residing in communities surround - by Mayor Emanuel on October 28th last a green roof spread across three different ing the college. To help people become year to break ground on the nearly $45 buildings, one of the largest such roofs in qualified, last year it launched a Commu - million Transportation, Distribution and Chicago.) nity Jobs Program that offers local resi - Logistics (TDL) Center at Olive-Harvey “Today we lay the foundation for a dents free construction trade training at College, a first-of-its kind facility in the best-in-class learning environment that the Dawson Technical Institute (DTI), one state of Illinois that will prepare students will be the pride of the West Side and all of City Colleges’ satellite sites. More than for the more than 110,000 TDL jobs com - of Chicago,” Chancellor Hyman said at 30 community members have already ing to the region over the next decade in the groundbreaking. “The new Malcolm X been hired. Program participants helped this sector. College will be a centerpiece of our efforts with site preparation throughout last fall, “This new facility will supplement to ensure Chicagoans are prepared for ca - while studying carpentry or concrete ma - Olive-Harvey College’s transportation, dis - reers in growing fields like healthcare.” sonry at DTI. tribution, and logistics-focused curriculum Moody Nolan, the nation’s largest The community college system has to prepare students for a career in an in- African-American architectural firm, serves also worked to ensure that the construc - demand, high growth industry,” Emanuel as the project’s Architect of Record. Due to tion process is an opportunity for good said. Current TDL programs at City Col - this project, the firm is expanding its two- environmental stewardship. As an exam - leges include logistics (including ware - year-old Chicago office from nine to 14 ple, Brophy notes a decision made by CCC housing and supply chain management), staff members. Senior Project Manager Dominick Owens commercial driver training, forklift and City Colleges of Chicago is commit - before site preparation began for the new public chauffeur courses (taxi and limou - ted to ensuring that the construction proj - Malcolm X College. “We moved 140 trees sine). ect benefits Chicagoans, especially the from Malcolm X’s parking lot, where the The new TDL Center is funded by surrounding Near West side community. new campus will be, and re-planted them $31.6 million from the State of Illinois and $13.2 million from City Colleges and
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is being administered by the Illinois Capi - chitect Bertrand Goldberg. Goettsch Part - that Brophy is focused on. “Recent im - tal Development Board, which oversees ners has designed a façade replacement for provements in this area have been very state-funded, non-road construction proj - the library that doubles the insulation of exciting,” Brophy says. The institution ects. the building envelope from R-10 to R-20 transitioned to a single-stream recycling “The TDL Center will employ numer - and brings in natural daylight through the effort in late 2012 and early 2013, and re - ous skilled laborers during construction addition of a skylight above the central cycling rates since then have increased. By and prepare thousands of students for atrium space. This renovation project, the third quarter of 2013, “the rate had in - high paying, in demand careers once it is which began in Fall 2013 and is being creased to nearly 20 percent,” Brophy complete,” Governor Quinn said. “In ad - overseen by Associate Director of Facilities noted. dition, we will seek a LEED Silver designa - Planning Robert Tamillo, is true to the At Malcolm X College, a “Green tion for the center, which is a testament to original Bertrand Goldberg pyramid pro - Committee” worked with engineering/ the building’s energy-efficient, environ - file while providing a much-needed en - maintenance staff to implement the new mentally-friendly design.” (See sidebar on ergy efficiency and performance update. It recycling system and “has been instru - the TDL Center’s sustainable design ele - will be completed in 2014. mental in educating students and staff of ments.) Also this year, following the replace - the importance of recycling,” Brophy said. Scheduled to open in 2015, the ment of Daley College’s roof a large array But CCC is also trying to reduce its 103,000 square foot Olive-Harvey facility of solar panels will be installed at this stream of recyclable materials. Three of will include automotive and diesel engine campus on Chicago’s Southwest side. This the colleges, Dawson Technical Institute laboratories, an engine dynamometer, project, supported by a $245,000 grant and the District Office have in recent classrooms, simulated driving facilities, a from the Illinois Green Economy Net - months installed water bottle refilling sta - testing center and vehicle bays, among work, will generate 130,000 kilowatt tions, which encourage students and staff other features. To give students hands-on hours/year, saving CCC $13,000 per year. to avoid using plastic bottles. training in the industry, the facility will Costs associated with the project will pay CCC also encourages students to take also feature a high-tech central store ware - themselves back in about 18 years. (There advantage of more sustainable transit op - house environment that will act as a sup - are also small arrays of solar panels at tions. The U-Pass program provides unlim - ply chain hub to efficiently provide office Olive-Harvey and Wright Colleges.) ited rides on city trains and buses and supplies to City Colleges’ seven campuses, “We look for opportunities to incor - Divvy bike-sharing stations are located six satellites and District Office. porate sustainable initiatives into our on - within a few blocks of most campuses. Ad - “The central store will provide a prac - going building maintenance and ditionally, Wright College has an electric tical, real-world training ground for stu - operations as well as our capital projects,” car charging station; Brophy hopes to add dents by integrating operations with the Brophy says. more stations down the road. curriculum by teaching students how to For example, CCC is upgrading its The new TDL Center at Olive-Harvey take orders, how to fill them, and how to HVAC systems, with the commissioning of will have a car-charging station when it’s do so in a timely manner,” Chancellor energy-efficient HVAC systems at completed, and the college plans on using Hyman said. “Our students will learn the Kennedy-King College scheduled for the two electric-powered step vans for inter- key concepts of logistics and supply chain current fiscal year. Window replacements campus deliveries. “Students in the logis - management needs in an organization are being done district-wide, with Olive- tics program at Olive-Harvey will get that is the largest community college sys - Harvey being the most recent campus to hands-on use of electric vehicles as part of tem in the state with thousands of em - receive this upgrade. Contracts are being their classes,” Brophy adds. ployees and students.” finalized with architects and plans are un - Environmental Programs and FGM Architects and construction derway to replace windows at Truman and Practices at Wright College management firm Gilbane Building Com - Daley Colleges. pany have been contracted for the project. CCC facilities have also installed LED While Malcolm X and Olive-Harvey Demolition of temporary buildings on the lights as part of the energy efficiency ef - colleges should soon have LEED-certified construction site was completed late last forts. These have mostly been installed in facilities, Wright College is frequently rec - year and construction continues through - exit sign lighting in all buildings, al - ognized for its commitment to sustainabil - out this year. though an LED project to upgrade the ity. It achieved Bronze Level status from lighting in Truman College’s parking the Illinois Governor’s Campus Sustain - Sustainable Building Renovations garage was also completed successfully in ability Compact in October 2012 and been and Improvements late 2012. New LED fixtures throughout named a Tree Campus USA by Arbor Day Beyond brand-new facilities, City Col - the garage have reduced energy use by Foundation for three years in a row. leges’ current five-year capital plan also in - more than 70 percent, saving approxi - The college, on Chicago’s northwest cludes improvements at all of its existing mately $41,000 annually. side, has had an ongoing relationship with campuses and their satellites. For example, the U.S. Green Building Council (both na - CCC is currently renovating the roof of Greening Student Habits tional and the Illinois chapter) for a num - Wright College’s library building, an Recycling is an important part of City ber of years. It has coordinated with the iconic pyramidal structure designed by ar - Colleges’ sustainability efforts, and an area continued on page 24 »
8 ChiCagoland Buildings & environments spring 2014 BuilDings & environMents [ Students walk to class at Wright College, on Chicago’s Northwest Side
City Colleges monitoring. » from page 8 David Inman is the organization on a series of Director of Wright’s envi - continuing education ronmental program at workshops (“Nuts & Bolts Wright, the mission of - Green Building for Con - which is to provide qual - tractors”) for construction ity education that pre - professionals. More than pares students with the 600 professionals have knowledge and skills re - participated in these work - quired for technical and shops. Wright also offers a managerial positions in two-week module in LEED the energy efficiency, as part of one of Wright’s emergency management, environmental technology and environmental, program courses, taught health & safety fields. by longtime USGBC-IL Ed - Inman oversees various ucation Committee Board academic curricula and member John Albrecht. staff relating to the col - In addition, USGBC par - lege’s sustainability pro - ticipates in Wright’s Green Apple Day of Energy Technologies program curriculum grams. These include associate’s degree Service each year. received a national award from USGBC. and basic certificate programs in environ - Wright’s Environmental Technology The program offers quality, affordable edu - mental technology, and associate’s degree program has received an annual award for cation to building engineers and opera - program in emergency management and education by USGBC-IL, and its Building tions staff requiring certification in energy other basic certificate programs.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ELEMENTS IN CCC’S NEW FACILITIES: NEW MALCOLM X COLLEGE CAMPUS OLIVE-HARVEY COLLEGE TRANSPORTATION, Sustainable Site DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICS (TDL) CENTER PROJECT » reusing existing impervious urban site that qualifies as a Brownfield site. Sustainable Site » Close proximity to public transportation, for both buses, elevated train and bike » reusing an existing site that may be considered a Brownfield development route. » College campus with excellent public transportation access » providing bicycle storage; CCC also plans to partner with the City to have a divvy » maximizing open space on the existing campus bike-sharing station at building. » stormwater quality and quantity control with the use of rain gardens and bio swales Water Efficiency » minimizing the heat island effect with reflective roof and pavement surfaces » using low-flow water fixtures to save approximately 33 percent of the potable (exemplary credit since all new pavement is concrete) water versus standard fixtures. Water Efficiency » using a Cistern to collect rain water for irrigation of plantings on the roof garden. » Water efficient landscape design with native and adaptive plantings that do not Energy and Atmosphere require irrigation » using roof monitors over large gym spaces and large skylights over the main con - » reducing water usage by at least 35 percent course and circulation. Energy and Atmosphere » using enhanced refrigerant management. » optimizing energy performance with a highly efficient building envelope » pursuing providing a portion of the electricity from renewable sources. » highly efficient mechanical heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems Materials and Resources including the use of an energy recovery wheel. » exceeding the energy efficiency performance requirements. » on-site renewable energy with the use of a transpired solar collector » utilizing high performance thermally broken curtainwall frames and glass. » enhanced commissioning of building and mechanical systems with future » utilizing regional and recycled materials. and verification » using FsC Certified Wood products. Materials and Resources » requiring the contractor to recycle construction waste, and provide indoor air » Construction waste management will recycle a minimum of 75 percent quality management plan during construction. » recycled content for new materials will be a minimum of 20 percent » using high reflectivity membrane roofing materials » regional materials will be used for a minimum of 20 percent of new work » providing extensive green roofs for 25 percent of the roof. » Certified wood products will be utilized. » Creating an outdoor plaza on the 3rd floor as part of the green roof that also uses Indoor Environmental Quality high reflectivity pavers. » outdoor air delivery will be monitored Indoor Environmental Quality » the indoor air quality will be managed and measured as part of the construction » using low emitting materials: adhesives, paints, flooring, composite wood. and prior to occupancy. » separating out exhaust for janitors and copy rooms. » low-emitting materials will be used for interior finishes.*
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“Wright College’s award-winning En - “As City Colleges works to comply But City Colleges’ sustainability ef - vironmental Technology programs prepare with the new ordinance, the program at forts aren’t only about cost-savings. Bro - students to chart a more energy-efficient Wright is helping other building owners phy hopes they introduce City Colleges future,” said Inman, who has worked at comply using the EPA’s Portfolio Manager students to the importance of everyday Wright for nine years and is a former monitoring tool,” says Jeremy Gantz, a habits like recycling and bicycling, as well Deputy Commissioner at the Chicago De - City Colleges spokesperson. The City of as less visible institutional practices like partment of Environment. “Our courses Chicago expects to employ the EPA tool as energy-monitoring and sustainable pro - cover everything from how to manage part of the newly approved building en - curement. (CCC’s goal is that all purchas - buildings’ energy use efficiently, to weath - ergy use reporting rules. ing should meet or exceed the EPA’s erization and renewable energies. And Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Building a Greener Future with photovoltaic and solar water heating (EPP) guidelines.) To help students learn systems and a green roof, among other With new energy use tools and a full- about all these efforts, earlier this year sustainable practices, the college’s award- time sustainability manager in place and CCC created a new web resource at winning campus is itself a learning oppor - two new facilities targeting LEED certifica - ccc.edu/sustainability. tunity.” tion on the way, City Colleges is confident “Ultimately, as a higher educational One of Wright’s offerings in particular it can continue to increase energy efficien - institution, we’re trying to lead by exam - is probably of interest to Chicago building cies in the coming years. Its optimism is ple,” Brophy says. “City Colleges is com - managers: its Building Energy Technolo - understandable: the system managed to mitted to being environmentally gies basic certificate program. That pro - reduce its overall energy costs by $913,000 responsible in our daily operations and gram helps people learn how to comply in the most recent fiscal year (FY2013), our long-term planning. But we’re also with the new Chicago Energy Benchmark - compared to the previous year. Ongoing trying to help students commit to sustain - ing Ordinance that City Council approved building energy audits and improved facil - able habits they’ll carry with them for the last year, which requires buildings in ex - ity management techniques will likely de - rest of their lives.” $ cess of 50,000 sq. feet to report energy liver further value to the environment and consumption data. taxpayers alike.
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