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October 4 -6, 2006
AASHE 2006: The Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable World
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education ) 2006 offers an exciting and unique opportunity for every sector of higher education to come and demonstrate how colleges and universities can lead the way to a sustainable future.
Whether student or administrator, faculty or staff, community member or business, your participation in this inspiring event is welcome. And while at ASU, please take time to visit the new Global Institute for Sustainability.
Information: Click here
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Sustainability Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
What is it?
Sustainability Brown Bag Lunch meetings are periodic programs held in the LACCD Board room to discuss topics related to building green. All are welcome. Please bring your own lunch.
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Sustainability Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
October 11 , 2006
Topic: Can Your City Get “Off the Grid?”
Susan Munves, energy and green building program administrator for the City of Santa Monica will discuss the actions that the City of Santa Monica has been pursuing to become energy independent. Susan will review the city’s pioneering ideas in greening and sustainability as part of her presentation.
Time: Noon to 1 p.m Location: LACCD Board Room 770 Wilshire Blvd., Downtown L.A.
RSVP: 213-891-2480
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October 11 - 12, 2006
The Sustainable Organization Series: Building your company's sustainability strategy while maintaining profitability.
'Strategic sustainability' are the buzz words of the 21st century in corporate management. To meet the sustainability challenge, companies need to understand how investments in improving the relationships among the bottom line, community and natural systems can pay off.
The Marshall School of Business and the USC Center for Sustainable Cities have teamed up to provide The Sustainable Organization Series. These programs are designed to help companies understand how to build sustainable organizations, address systemic issues, align greening efforts with business strategies, and improve your bottom line.
Sign up today for one program or all four (see below) in The Sustainable Organization Series starting October. Scholarships available.
For more information about the USC Center for Sustainable Cities visit click here.
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October 11, 2006
Sustainable Organization
Learn strategies to take your organization to the next level of sustainability. This program will help you define a sustainability vision, understand the latest sustainability approaches, evaluate green-value networks, metrics and more.
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Information: Click here
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October 12, 2006
Sustainability Strategies for Investors and Firms
Becoming more
environmentally and socially responsible has been shown to be more financially relevant to firms and investors. In this program learn how to tackle these issues head-on for larger profits, happier employees, reduced costs and more.
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Information: Click here
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March 14, 2007
Greening the Supply Network
Ever expanding global supply networks coupled with climate change present significant sustainability challenges. This challenge demands radical innovation in the reduction of materials and energy used throughout the product lifecycle and value chain. This program will help you to align greening efforts with business strategies when supply chains are global.
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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March 15 , 2007
Greening Buildings, Facilities and Infrastructure
Green building strategies require a marriage of environmentally sound and high performance design to create facilities that give increased productivity, sales, and highly efficient life-cycle cost performance. In this program you will learn about the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system, how to change existing facilities to boost productivity and lower costs, and more.
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Information: Click here
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| LACCD's New Energy Plan Brings Savings and Self-Sufficiency |
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Larry H. Eisenberg, Executive Director of Facilities Planning and Development for the LACCD
 Energy efficiency remains an important goal of our Proposition A/AA Bond program. As we build new facilities we are looking for ways to make them "smarter" and "greener" than ever before. Historically, our Colleges have relied on inefficient roof top units to heat and cool their buildings. Based on the LACCD Board of Trustee’s adopted sustainability policies and associated alternative energy goals, a new energy plan has been implemented that will truly make our inefficient buildings---history. LACCD's energy plan has three parts:
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Install Highly Efficient Central Plants – Using highly efficient boilers, chillers, and solar heat tube technology (water is heated to a steam level by the sun and drives chillers to produce chilled water for air conditioning), buildings at the colleges can be heated or cooled much more efficiently.
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Minimum 10% Alternate Energy: Either through the use of solar, wind, geothermal or co-generation, the LACCD has installed equipment to generate a minimum of 10% of the power needed for each campus. Pierce, Valley, City, Mission and Trade-Tech Colleges have either installed, or are planning to install, photovoltaic cells (solar panels) to generate electricity. We are working diligently toward our goal of producing one megawatt per college.
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Generate our own electricity – Install 1 megawatt of photovoltaic panels at each college, generating enough electricity to meet all day time requirements. We plan to use the excess electrical energy to convert water into oxygen and hydrogen, and use the hydrogen in the evening to power fuel cells for electricity on campus.
Our goal with this approach is to make the LACCD's nine colleges energy self-sufficient. We will be able to reallocate the money we are currently spending on paying for power also o other pressing needs, such as the maintenance and operation of the new buildings we are constructing under the Bond program. I appreciate the support our College presidents have shown for our energy plan and in subsequent months I will report back on our progress in my column.
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"Take a New Look" at the L.A. Community Colleges
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Annual Report to the Community, which is now available, provides overview and recaps progress of the District's $2.2 Billion Bond Construction Program
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) today announced that its 2006-07 "Annual Report to the Community" on its Proposition A/AA Bond Program is now available. The report invites the community to "Take a New Look” at the Bond program and highlights the wave of construction that began throughout the District in the last year.
 The LACCD Proposition A/AA annual report is available online at www.propositiona.org/annual_report.html.For print copies, contact Coby King at 213-486-6560. Propositions A/AA are providing more than $2.2 billion in voter-approved funds to modernize and update the nine colleges in the LACCD.
"The Annual Report to the Community demonstrates that we've spent the time necessary to carefully plan our building program," said Darroch F. Young, chancellor of the LACCD. "Our mission is all about the students. The new buildings illustrated in the report – along with the many other renovations and improvements that Prop. A/AA is paying for – will enhance our students' educational experience and provide many benefits to the public."
The report also showcases various initiatives and programs funded by the Proposition A/AA Bond Program, which also includes: Sustainability and Green Building program; e7 Internship program; and Small and Local Business Outreach.
"With another year under our belts, we are thrilled to see our planning materialize in increased construction on all our campuses," said Larry H. Eisenberg, executive director of Facilities Planning and Development. "This report shows that from renovated classrooms and laboratories to maintenance facilities, bond dollars are making it easier for the Los Angeles Community Colleges to perform our important mission of educating students."
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| Spotlight on Anthony Sanger |
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Working to Get Prop. A/AA Projects Built
Anthony Sanger is the Deputy Program Director for Construction Operations at DMJM/JGM - Los Angeles office for LACCD's Proposition A/AA Bond Program.
Sanger's role in the Proposition A/AA Bond Program is deputy for day-to-day construction and field operations. He works to ensure construction projects at each of the colleges are going smoothly and safely; oversees risk management, labor compliance, and construction management. In essence, Sanger's role is assisting the College Project Managers at each of the nine colleges to get things built.
Sanger has been working in Southern California for more than ten years, and prior to working on the LACCD's Proposition A/AA Bond program, he worked on the capital improvement program at UCLA, as the Program Controls manager for the Alameda Corridor. Sanger also worked as a Project Engineer on Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Florida prior to DMJM.
Sanger came on board one year after the bond program began, but left the program in December 2005 to move to Kansas. He came back to the program in mid August of this year and now commutes weekly to L.A. from his home in Kansas City.
"There is something amazing about watching these designs come up out of the ground and knowing I had some part in helping to get it done," Sanger said.
One of the more challenging aspects of his role is in helping contractors new to public works projects move through the construction process. Sanger cites training, mentoring, and teaching as a big part of what he does.
Sanger is also a former adjunct professor of project and construction management and contract administration at University of California, Riverside and a certified mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court. Sanger enjoys the mediating aspect of his job and sees his training in this area as very relevant to what he does for the Bond Program.
"I feel there is always a solution to every problem," he said. "With good mediation skills, you can always solve the problem."
So, where does Sanger see the Proposition A/AA Bond Program today?
"We are at the leading edge of the wave of construction," he said. "A lot of challenges lie ahead, but through good management we will have a successful program and the colleges will get the buildings they need."
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| LACCD Gives Capital Program Update at Construction Association Event in L.A. |
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Los Angeles Community College District showcased upcoming business opportunities associated with its $2.2 billion Proposition A/AA Bond Construction Program
 Showcasing the many business opportunities now available, the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) presented an update on its $2.2 billion Proposition A/AA Bond Construction Program at the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)—Southern California chapter's "Capital Program Updates" dinner and presentation in Los Angeles on Thursday, Sept. 28. Larry H. Eisenberg, Executive Director of Facilities Planning and Development for the LACCD, gave an overview presentation highlighting various upcoming business opportunities for construction and professional services on the Proposition A/AA Bond Program.
The dinner and presentation took place at the Marriott Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles and was geared towards construction managers, contractors, engineers, architects, and others interested in upcoming opportunities for construction and professional services. Guy Mehula, chief facilities executive for the Los Angeles Unified School District, also presented an update on the K-12 District's new schools construction program at the event.
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| Los Angeles Community College District Awards Construction Contracts for Upgrades at Two Colleges |
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Contracts will bring needed construction services to Los Angeles Mission and Trade-Tech Colleges as part of the $2.2 billion Proposition A/AA Bond program
The Los Angeles Community College District awarded $3,474,960 in construction contracts during August 2006 to businesses for construction and upgrade projects at two of its nine colleges. Each contract was the result of formal competitive bidding and is funded by the Proposition A/AA Bond program, the $2.2 billion bond measures overwhelmingly approved by Los Angeles voters in 2001 and 2003.
The Colleges’ Board of Trustees authorized the following construction contracts in August 2006:
 Los Angeles Mission College: A contract was authorized with Rudy's General Construction, a local business based in Reseda, Calif. to provide services for the Campus Center – General Project in the amount of $9,500. This project will provide for the construction of a wall to be used as a sanitary barrier between a janitorial area and food preparation area in the college's main students gathering area, the Campus Center building.
Los Angeles Trade-Tech College: An agreement was authorized with NSA Construction Group, Inc., a small and local business based in Los Angeles, to perform construction services for the Roadways, Walkways, Grounds, Parking Lots – F Ramp project in the amount of $3,366,652. This project will provide for the construction of a new driving ramp along Flower Street leading to the rooftop F parking lot for students and staff. Project completion is scheduled for May 2007. The current F Ramp is being demolished to make way for the College's South Campus project, which includes two new buildings, an athletic field and subterranean parking.
A contract was also authorized with JEM  Industries, Inc., a small business based in Tustin, Calif. for the Campus Improvements – Removal of Existing Underground Fuel Tanks project for $99,808. This project will provide services needed to remove three tanks underground in front of building B on campus. Removal of the unused tanks will make way for the subterranean parking that is part of the college’s South Campus project.
Companies interested in participating in this $2.2 billion renovation and modernization program are encouraged to contact Donetta Pickett at Donetta.Pickett@dmjmjgm.com, and to visit www.PropositionA.org and click on “Doing Business with Us."
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| Photo of the Month |
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger greets Los Angeles Trade-Technical College president Dr. Roland Chapdelaine as LACCD Chancellor Rocky Young looks on during the Governor's visit to Trade-Tech on August 28, 2006.
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will lead to the rooftop F parking lot for students and staff. Project completion is scheduled for May 2007. The current F Ramp is being demolished to make way for the College's South Campus project, which includes two new academic classroom buildings, an athletic field, and subterranean parking. 