Schedule of Events

The Sustainable University:
The Chancellor's Sesquicentennial Colloquium
Tuesday, March 30
Steinberg Auditorium
Free and open to the public

9 a.m. — Doors

9:15 a.m. —Welcome and introductions

9:30 a.m. — Case study 1, presented by Mark Rylander, associate,
William McDonough Associates, Charlottesville, Va., and chair,
AIA Committee on the Environment

9:50 a.m. — Case study 2, presented by Marc Rosenbaum,
principal, Energysmith environmental design consultants,
Meriden, N.H.

10:10 a.m. —Case study 3, presented by John Gratiot,
vice-president for facilities, operation and management,
Dartmouth College.

10:30 a.m. — Q & A

10:45 a.m. — Break

11 a.m. — Case Study 4, presented by William Odell,
vice-president and sustainable design principal, HOK,
St. Louis

11:20 a.m. —Case Study 5, presented by Keith McPeters,
associate, Olin Partnership, Philadelphia

11:40 a.m. — Case Study 6, presented by Victoria Sirianni,
chief facilities officer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Noon — Q & A

12:15 p.m. — Lunch break

2:15 p.m. — Lecture, Economy, Ecology, Equity and Education
William McDonough, principal, William McDonough
Associates, Charlottesville, Va.

3:15 p.m. — Q & A

3:30 p.m. — Break

3:45 p.m. — Moderated discussion, The Sustainable University

4:45 p.m. — Concluding comments

Participant Biographies

Since 1993, William Odell, group vice president and design principal in HOK's St. Louis office, has been the St. Louis representative for HOK's sustainable design team, which is responsible for directing the firm's growth in sustainability through the research of cutting-edge methodologies and firm-wide training. Odell was named firm-wide sustainable design director in March 2000 and helps head the firm's sustainable effort. Sustainable projects Odell has designed include the 695,000-square-foot operations center for the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, and the 250,000-square-foot S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets World Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin. Odell also has been instrumental in assisting the U.S. Air Force General Services Administration (GSA) and other organizations in developing facility guidelines to encourage federal projects to incorporate sustainable design principles. He has been an active member in the foundation of the U.S. Green Building Council and was part of the USGBC committee that created the LEED Building Environmental Rating System. He has co-authored two books on sustainable design, including the HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design. He is currently working on a book on sustainable communities, which extends environmental principals to the large community level. He has been a frequent speaker nationally on environmental issues and the built environment. He has generated numerous articles on the topic.

John P. Gratiot is associate vice president for Facilities Operations and Management at Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire. He directs all aspects of Facilities Operations, including maintenance, grounds, custodial, utility generation and distribution, mail, parking and engineering supporting all construction and renovations on a campus of 285 acres with 175 buildings totalling over 4.5 million square feet. Gratiot came to Dartmouth in 1983 as a facilities engineer and has worked his way up through various positions to his current leadership role. He was instrumental in planning the utility needs for campus growth and helped secure funding for major upgrades to the boiler and cogeneration plant as well as a major campus steam distribution tunnel and most recently a new chilled water plant. Now with almost 750,000 square feet of new construction coming in the next few years, his major concern will focus on continued maintenance and renewal of existing facilities.

Environmental engineer Alistair Guthrie is a director of Ove Arup & Partners and was until 1989 a Director of Ove Arup & Partners, California. He has wide experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams on the design and supervision of services in building projects in England, Italy, France, America and Japan. This experience includes not only detailed design work in mechanical services but also building physics, energy studies, day lighting and air movement analysis and the creation of microclimates. Alistair has published papers and has lectured worldwide.

William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' In 1999, Time magazine recognized him as a 'Hero for the Planet' (2/22/99), stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world." His ideas and efforts were also honored when, in 1996, he became the only individual to receive the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental honor, presented by President Clinton in a White House ceremony. McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough Partners, Architecture and Community Design, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the co-founder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC, a product and systems development firm assisting client companies in implementing their unique sustaining design protocol.

Keith McPeters has been with Olin Partnership of Philadelphia, Pa., where he is currently an associate, since 1995. He has worked on a number of landscape and urban design projects both nationally and internationally with a wide range of architects, including Frank Gehry Partners, Peter Eisenman, Deborah Berke, Machado Silvetti, Rem Koolhaas, William Rawn Associates, Herzog DeMeuron, Moore Ruble Yudell and Cooper Robertson Partners. From 1981 to 1993, McPeters worked in architecture including six years with Michael Graves Architect as a Senior Designer and Project Manager. He participated in projects and competitions involving urban design, building design and exhibition design. McPeters' elliptical approach to a career in architecture is characterized by ongoing his interest in order, process and limits, supplemented by a wide range reading and listening. Recently this approach has led to expanded written and musical opportunities - the most unique of which include an appearance as a guest soloist on the recent recording by Birdie Num Num and the Spirit Squad. McPeters has served on reviews and assisted in teaching design studios for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Marc Rosenbaum, P.E. uses an integrated systems design approach to help people create buildings and communities, that which connect us to the natural world, and support both personal and planetary health. He brings this vision, experience and commitment to a collaborative design process, with the goal of profoundly understanding the interconnections between people, place, and systems that generate the best solution for each unique project. Design practiced at its highest level goes beyond efficiency and conservation to create places that regenerate and nurture the natural world and all of its inhabitants. Realizing that the barriers to high performance buildings and communities are neither technical nor economic, his work scope has expanded to assist client in designing the processes that are necessary to create high performance projects. His work has been recognized nationally by ASHRAE, AIA, EEBA, and NESEA.

Mark Rylander, AIA, has extensive professional experience with a wide variety of building types through all phases of design and construction, both during his nine years with WM P and with highly regarded design firms in New York City. His work typically displays high aspirations for eco-effective design while resolving larger issues of community. Rylander also serves as the 2004 Chair of the American Institute of Architects' Committee on the Environment. In that capacity, he has managed and developed the Top Ten Green design awards program; initiated advocacy and education programs; built relationships with USGBC, DOE, EPA and others; and advised AIA leadership on policy issues. Rylander continues to be engaged in academic life as a visiting critic and lecturer and served as an Associate of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design at the University of Virginia.

Victoria V. Sirianni is chief facilities officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She directs all aspects of the Department of Facilities, including design and construction, capital renewal, maintenance, utility generation, and distribution, cleaning, grounds care, and mail services for 140 buildings covering 10 million square feet on 153 acres of land. Before her appointment to the position of director in 1993, Sirianni served the Institute in multiple positions. Her service to MIT began in 1973 and has continued since then without interruption. Early in her tenure as department director, Sirianni led her department through profound changes that included a major reorganization, a comprehensive facility audit to assess the status and future capital needs of the existing campus, and the establishment of a 20 megawatt co-generation facility. For the last six years she has been intimately involved in an unprecedented Institute wide capital renewal effort with overall responsibility for the planning, design and construction of over $1.4B worth of new buildings and major renovations.

As part of her involvement with the campus community, Sirianni also serves on a variety of standing committees. Her current professional affiliations include the International Interior Design Association, Society for College and University Planners, and the Association of Higher Education Facility Managers. Sirianni holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and an A.B. from Carnegie Mellon University. She has taught design courses and studied architecture at MIT as a special graduate student.