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1. Oakland University
Facilities Management
Sustainability Presentation
By: Siraj Khan, PE, LEED AP
June 30th, 2011

2. What is Sustainability
The United Nations defines sustainability as
“development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.” However, there is no one
definition of sustainability. In general, sustainability is
the term for all things that decrease our dependence
on non-renewable energy and increase the idea of
living within the means of our current environment
without damaging it for the future. In short, sustaining
human life on Earth.
Sustainable endeavors should address the issues of
ecological robustness, social equity and economic
viability.

3. What is LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
is one of a few rating systems for green construction.
Developed by the U.S. Green Building
Council(USGBC) in 2000, provides a framework for
constructing new and maintaining old structures with
an approach to sustainability.
LEED uses 5 categories(Sustainable Sites, Water
Efficiency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and
Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality) to
produce an overall rating that accounts for the entire
building's life time.

4. What is Carbon Footprint?
Carbon Footprint describes the amount of carbon
emission and green house gasses that is produced by
an organization, product or person. This includes
vehicle emissions, production and consumption of food
and other goods, and services.

5. Oakland University's Commitment to
Sustainability
OU leadership and management encourages
environmental stewardship and sustainability at
all OU’s campuses.
New platinum-rated Human Health Science
Building that is under construction and a new
Gold-rated Engineering Center are the
examples of their commitment toward
sustainability at OU campus.

6. Facilities Management's
Commitment to Sustainability
Facilities Management office is playing a responsible role
to implement sustainable best practices through
various projects that the department manages from
design to construction and after construction. Every
day these practices are being utilized during operation
and maintenance of the campus. These practices save
energy, improve occupant comfort and environment,
reduces carbon footprint that resulted into a better
Sustainable environment and a Greener campus.
Facilities Management constantly examining their
activities and services in order to continually improve
environmental performance, with economic viability
with a sense of sustainability.

7. Green Resources
USGBC – United States Green Building Council for
LEED Ratings for the buildings and providing
guidelines towards sustainability best practices.
www.usgbc.org
AASHE – Association for the advancement of
sustainability in higher education, created Talloires
Declaration to drive moment toward sustainability best
practices on campuses.
www.aashe.org
ACUPCC – American College & University President’s
Climate Commitment to reduce carbon footprint toward
carbon neutrality
www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org
Energy Star – A building rating system by DOE for
benchmarking of energy. www.energystar.gov

8. Contacts
Terry Stollsteimer
Associate VP for Facilities Management
Phone: 248-370-2160
stollsteimer@oakland.edu
Siraj Khan Rafi Bayrakdarian
MSME, PE, LEED AP PE, CEM, LEED AP
Facilities Management Facilities Management
Director of Engineering Energy Manager
Phone: 248-370-2161 Phone: 248-370-4990
Khan@oakland.edu Bayrakda@oakland.edu

9. LEED Checklist: New Construction

10. LEED Checklist: New Construction

11. LEED Checklist: Existing Buildings

12. LEED Checklist: Existing Buildings

13. Current Projects:
Sustainability on Campus
Human Health Science Building
Hannah Hall Ventilation Improvements
Vandenberg Hall
– Replacement of windows
O'Dowd Hall
– Replacement of curtain wall
– Improvements of mechanical systems
Central Heating Plant Improvements

14. Human Health Science Building
Currently under construction on northwest corner
of the campus
LEED Platinum rated
Scheduled to be open in August, 2012

15. Human Health Science Building
cont.
Rarely does a building project become the talk of the town, but the $61 million
structure is probably the most visible building project in OU history because
of its location at the intersection of Walton and Squirrel.
The four-story complex is the first academic structure built on the perimeter of
the campus; it will house the School of Nursing and the School of Health
Sciences.
Scheduled to open in 2012, the 161,000 square foot building designed by the
SmithGroup will feature a large auditorium, nine classrooms, a full health
clinic, substantially improved teaching lab space, and faculty and
administrative offices for the two fast-growing academic units on campus.
Despite the tight budget for the project, John Harmala, senior project manager,
says the classrooms will outshine anything on campus in terms of technology.
Terry Stollsteimer, associate vice president for facilities management, says the
building will have more gathering spaces for students than any building on
campus, and the building will rely on natural light to create a calm
environment.

16. Human Health Science Building
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But as important as the building is to the growth and development of the Schools
of Nursing and Health Sciences, it is the environmental statement the building
makes that is showering attention on OU and its environmental stewardship.
“This building is a pivotal project in leading OU toward a sustainable campus,”
says Amy Butler, director of the Bureau of Energy Systems for the state’s
Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth.
The benchmark for measuring “green” buildings is a national system called
LEED. When OU opens the doors in the fall of 2012, the Human Health
Building will be the first LEED Platinum building in the State of Michigan.
Platinum is the highest LEED ranking possible.
The signature element in achieving Platinum status was a $2.7 million US
Department of Energy grant to add 86 additional geothermal wells to the
project, bringing the total number of wells to 256. Energy manager Jim Leidel
wrote the grant for the additional wells and says the 310-foot wells allowed
OU to build the Human Health Building without a cooling tower.
Siraj Khan, director of engineering for OU, says the building also features a
desiccant cooling system (one which uses solar power to help take

17. Human Health Science Building
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moisture out of the building) and a variable refrigerant heat pump system to
improve comfort, air quality, and energy efficiency. The desiccant technology
has been used successfully in Europe, but OU’s building is one of the first in
the United States to take advantage of the desiccant systems.
Another measure by which the building is “graded” is the percentage of waste
that is recycled, either on site or elsewhere. That includes re-cycling the
asphalt that was removed when the geothermal wells were drilled and the
parking lot resurfaced. At this stage of the building construction project, 87%
of the waste has been recycled.
One other key project outside the building is the rehabilitation of the wetland
areas adjacent to the building. The current wetland areas contain some
invasive plants that need to be removed and replaced with native species.
Stollsteimer is proud of the work his team has done on the project and notes a
number of other environmentally friendly features, such as four charging
stations for electric vehicles, a small locker room for students or staff who
want to bike to work and take a quick shower before class, and the use of
cisterns to capture water for landscape watering.

18. Hannah Hall Ventilation Improvements
 Reducing the amount of exhaust air flow for labs and
reducing outdoor air intake into the building during
non-operational hours, resulted into energy saving.

19. Vandenberg Hall
 Recently replaced the old inefficient windows with new
energy efficient windows.
 New windows reduces solar and thermal loads as well
as infiltration of air, resulted into energy saving.
(August 2011)

20. O'Dowd Hall Envelope
Facilities Management is in the process of managing a
project to replace the old inefficient curtain wall. This
will help eliminate air draft, moisture leakage and
reduction of solar heat load in the building. This
improvement will save energy as well as will improve
working environment in the building.

21. O'Dowd Hall
Improvements of mechanical systems
Upgrading of mechanical systems to save energy as
well as to improve work environment.

22. Central Heating Plant Improvements
A current project is being managed for improvements
of the boilers efficiency, replacing HTHW pumps and
balancing of the high temperature heating hot water
flows, that will be resulted into saving energy.

23. Recently Completed Projects:
Sustainability on Campus
Hamlin Hall
– New high efficient windows
Recommissioning
– Pawley Hall
– Student Recreation & Athletic Center
LED Outdoor Lighting for roadways & parking lots
Utility sub-meters for all major campus buildings

24. Hamlin Hall
 Recently replaced the old inefficient windows with new
energy efficient windows.
 New windows will reduce solar and thermal loads as
well as infiltration of air into the building, resulted into
saving energy (August 2010)

25. Pawley Hall
A recommissioning project was recently completed
that resulted into energy savings, translated into in a
substantial reduction of utility bill.
The items commissioned were: chiller, VAV box &
controls, VFD's and occupancy sensors.

26. Student Recreation and Athletic Center
 A recommissioning project was recently completed
that resulted into energy savings as well as saving on
utility bill for the building.
 The items commissioned were chiller and VAV boxes
control upgrades, VFD's and occupancy sensors.

27. LED Outdoor Lighting for roadways
& Parking Lots
 Newly installed LED lighting will save on labor cost by
out lasting regular bulbs 3 times.
 Brighter lighting system will create a safe environment,
will also reduce lighting pollution at night.
 Will reduce energy consumption.

28. Utility Sub-Meters:
Electric, Gas, and Water
 Sub-meters have been installed to monitor and
tracking of the building’s utilities usage.
 Meters are accessible on the network, with the ability
to be analyzed with utility metering software, being
installed in 2012.

29. Future Projects:
Sustainability on Campus
New Engineering Center ($75 Million)
Biomass Energy Plant ($32 Million)
– currently on hold
Wind Turbine ($7 Million)
– currently on hold
Combined Heating and Power System ($6 Million)
– currently being reviewed

30. New Engineering Center
• Currently under design stage
• LEED Gold rated
• Scheduled to be open in August, 2014
• New technology Mircoturbines will be placed to
provide electric power and thermal energy for the
building as well as to provide power to campus grid
and high temperature heating hot water to HTHW
campus loop. This highly efficient system will also
reduce carbon foot print for the building. A highly
efficient chilled beam system and a dedicated outdoor
air system will provide comfortable work environment
as well as energy saving.

31. Biomass Energy Plant
Proposed to be built south of Main Campus a biomass
energy plant of 40 MMBTUH. The plant will be utilizing
wood chips to produce thermal energy for the campus
HTHW loop. Proposed plant will reduce carbon foot
print and long-term savings for fuel bills.
 (currently on hold).

32. Wind Power
Proposed to install a zero-emission (clean &
renewable energy) wind power turbines of 2.1MW to
provide electric power for the campus grid.
 (currently on hold).

33. Central Heating Plant
Combined Heat and Power System
• A proposal is being prepared to replace an existing
old boiler at the CHP with a combined heat and power
unit (gas turbine of 4.6 MW), that will produce electric
power and thermal energy as well as reduce electric
power demand during peak shaving, all resulted into
energy savings and savings on utility bills.
•This proposed installation will also reduce carbon
footprint on campus.

34. Sustainability in Action
Following slides will show the implementation of
the best sustainability practices in all five
categories as defined by the USGBC-LEED
guidelines.

35. Electric Vehicles
Facilities Management purchased two new electric
vehicles in 2010 to replace gas-powered vehicles, to
be used by facilities Management staff. The effort was
done to reduce emissions and pollutants in the
environment and save on gasoline bills.

36. Bear Bus
 Free shuttle service for in and around campus to avoid
traffic congestion and reduce pollution.
 Two lines
 On-campus
 Same affect as Bike share
 Off-campus
 Helps students living on campus to save gas and keep
their emissions down by carpooling to local hot spots.

37. Bike as an alternate mode of
Transportation
Facilities Management is striving to provide
convenience for the campus community by having bikes
everywhere on the campus as an alternate mode of
transportation to move around, in order to preserve
green spaces, prevent congestion and reduce carbon
footprint.
Now you can help even more by biking around campus
instead of driving to the other side.

38. Bear Lake
 Bear Lake is a Storm water retention pond to control storm
quantity to creeks to avoid soil erosion and to have a
beautiful vista for the campus community. The lake is being
continuously monitored for water quality and is being
treated with Eco-friendly cleaning agents that do not harm
living species in the lake.
 Facilities Management is viewing the lake to potentially be
used as a closed loop for water-cooled chillers for nearby
buildings if economically viable.

39. Storm Water Retention Ponds
 In an effort to manage storm water, a pond was built
for a recently constructed parking lot P-35. This will
result in controlled storm water flow to the campus-
wide stormwater system.

40. Land Management
Facilities Management has implemented a tree
management plan for planting native trees and a
campus tree protection policy that helps to make the
campus look green and Eco-friendly, decreases soil
erosion and control storm water run-off.
Native trees pictured above from left to right: White
Oak, Sugar Maple, Locust

41. Re-Vegetation
• Helps to keep ground strong after construction and
reduces stormwater run-off.

42. Low Flow Fixtures
 Low Flow Plumbing Fixtures are being installed in the
Dormitory buildings in an effort to reduce consumption
of potable water.

43. Dual Flush Toilet
Currently are being installed in the Dormitory buildings
in an effort to reduce consumption of potable water.

44. Lower Pioneer Field
 Well pump used for irrigation of fields.
 Saves energy by pumping locally.
 Saves resources by not using potable water.

45. Irrigation
Controlled by a centralized control system.
Using rain sensors to save water for irrigation.

46. Central Heating Plant Upgrade
Central Heating Plant is continuously upgraded for
efficiency improvements of the systems and the
generators to save energy.
Energy monitoring is continuously being done by a
direct digital control (DDC) system.

47. New HVAC Technology:
Police and Support Services
 Using a new cutting edge technology of
variable refrigerant (VRV) system to
provide heating & cooling of the PSS
building renovation.
 Highly efficient system to reduce
energy and carbon footprint.

48. Variable Frequency Drives(VFD)
 Completed Installation of VFD’s for
majority of fans & pumps to save
energy.
 Facilities Management is installing the
VFD's for all remaining fans & pumps.

49. Occupancy Sensors
 Shutting off indoor lights and/or
shutting off air flow when the
room is unoccupied to save
energy.
 Facilities management install
occupancy sensors for all the
offices and classrooms as a
general practice.

50. CO2 Sensors
 Saves energy by reducing air intake
without scarifying air quality.
 Constantly monitor air quality and if it
reaches a certain CO2 threshold then it
brings in fresh outside air.
 Saves energy because its harder to
heat/cool the outside air compared to air
already in circulation.
 Facilities management already installed
CO2 sensors for majority of air-handling
systems and in the highly populated
areas such as lecture halls to reduce
outdoor air intake, resulted into energy
savings.

51. Solar-thermal System
• Solar-thermal panels placed on roof of the HHB
building to provide desiccant cooling during
summer as well as providing heating in the
winter. Domestic hot water will also be provided
for the building.
• Solar-thermal panels will also be placed on roof
of the new Engineering Center for educational
and learning experience.

52. Geothermal System
Human Health Science building will use highly
efficient geothermal system (256 wells, 325ft deep) to
provide cooling and heating for the building, resulted
into energy savings and reducing carbon foot print.

53. O'Dowd Hall Cooling Tower
 Facilities Management recently boosted efficiency of
the ceramic cooling tower by cleaning the nozzles,
balancing condenser water flow and by installing a
new motor mount for an adequate fan operation. All
these items will save energy.

54. O'Dowd Hall Chillers
Currently modifying primary & secondary piping of the
chillers to implement energy conservation measures to
save energy and to improve cooling efficiency of the
chilled water system.

55. Recycling Waste
 Campus facilities divert thousands of
tons traditional recyclable materials
like papers or aluminum for the
landfill every year.
 Recycling these items reduces
campus waste streams.
 Recycling bins can be found all
around campus buildings and around
student housing buildings.
 Recycling waste saves the natural
environment and natural resources.

56. Single Stream Recycling
Dump all recycling items into one
container to be sorted at the
recycling center.
Makes it easy for building
occupants to throw trash in recycle
bins, to increase collection of
recycling waste.

57. Preserved Dirt Hill
 Preserved dirt from current and past projects.
 Dirt pile will be used for future projects.
 Saves the effort to transport dirt off campus and back
on campus for the projects.
 Saves on gas and emissions, resulted into reduction of
carbon foot print.

58. Indoor Air and Environmental Quality
Facilities management always manage and implement
indoor air and environmental practices during
construction and post construction of the project.
IAQ Best Management Practices are being in practice:
– IAQ During Facility Alterations and Additions
– Using higher efficiency filters
– Purging of the building or renovated area
Occupant Comfort
– Lighting Controls
– Thermal Comfort Monitoring
– Day lighting

59. Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control
 Campus policy prohibits smoking
inside campus building.
 Outdoor smoking is allowed at a
distance of at least 25 feet away
from building entrances.
 This resulted into improved
indoor air quality as well as
energy savings by reducing
make up supply air and
exhausting tobacco smoke
outside the building.

60. Green Cleaning Products
 Green products are being used for
cleaning.
 Green Solutions: All types of cleaning
products.
 Dispenser: Efficient diluting machine
programmed with the amount of
water to mix in.

61. De-Icing
• Facilities Management is using less corrosive
forms of rock salt for melting ice on sidewalks
and entrance way stairs, to protect personnel
and natural environment.

62. Proposed Campus Sustainability Plan
TOP down commitment
Bottom up support and enthusiasm
Assemble Green team and set goals & priorities
Development of Green policy
Benchmark all operations on campus
Existing Buildings and OU campus sustainability
assessment & feasibility study with economic
parameters and
Funding resources and allocation
Behavior and cultural change awareness and practices
Sustainability in core curriculum and academic affairs
 TRACK, IMPROVE AND MOVE ON!

63. Energy Saving Guide Lines
Please refer to:
http://www.oakland.edu/energy/

64. Any Questions?