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Publication UMass Amherst Green Building Guidelines v.2 and LEEDv4(2016-01-01) Landrey, Kylie A.; Mendoza, Ted; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad; Tabatabaee, Somayeh; Mostafavi, Nariman; Mann, Ray Kinoshita; Dalzell, Jeffrey; Aksamija, AjlaFacilities & Campus Services supports sustainability and energy conservation initiatives by providing in-house resources to campus staff as well as designers, contractors and other consultants working with the University. The UMass Amherst Green Building Guidelines v2 and LEED v4 provide a framework for approaching new construction and major renovation projects at UMass Amherst that are undergoing LEED v4 certification by focusing the conversation on those green building aspects that are most important to the campus. They are intended to be the beginning of a dynamic conversation between designers, environmental consultants and constructors, university stakeholders, and users of new high performance buildings.Publication Planning for Campus Collections 2013(2013-01-01) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla D.; Dumont, Elizabeth R.; Swinford, DennisDuring the Campus Master Planning effort the need to better understand and plan for the UMass Amherst collections was identified and an ad-hoc committee was created to help advance a better understanding of the existing collections and how best to plan for the future. The committee was comprised of Directors/ curators of campus academic collections, Campus Planning staff and other related campus professionals. The first task of the committee was to develop a basis for creating a planning framework for the academic collections. The Committee defined existing collections and set a framework and common language that enabled the classification and quantification of collections space on campus. The UMass Amherst Planning for Campus Collection 2013 report to academic Deans provides an overview of the Campus Planning Collections Study and proposes a vision for future planning efforts.Publication University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries Master Plan(2010-01-01) Dugdale, Shirley; Schafer, Gerald Jay; Harvey, Bryan; Cahill, James; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Button, Leslie Horner; Warner, Theresa; Rooney, Pam; Cunningham, JohnAmherst Libraries, which is on the edge of significant change moving into a new era serving scholars, researchers and learners in the 21st Century. Over the last decade the Library has been a leader in many initiatives: increasing development of digital resources; collaborating with the Five Colleges Consortium, which was one of the first in the country to develop a shared book depository; developing a highly successful Learning Commons that engages partners in providing a broad range, of services and settings for learners; providing services through partners welcomed into library facilities, such the peer learning activities of the Learning Resources Center; and converting space to nontraditional library uses that are compatible with the mission of the library with facilities like the Teaching Commons. The visioning and conceptual development that was done for this study sought to build on the success of these initiatives, improve library space, and seek new types of blended facilities with partners that could enhance what the library offers the campus community. The Libraries master plan is aligned with the University’s strategic plan to become a major research institution through growth of new areas for research and academic development, and to grow its student body. Whereas the previous decade focused a great deal on supporting undergraduate learning and research, for the next decade the Library plans to improve support for scholars, researchers and graduate students, combined with expanded services for undergraduates. The Du Bois tower is in need of major renovation, upgrading to enable new types of activities, as well as to support traditional study and scholarship more effectively. Many options were studied for conversion of spaces to new activities or functions compatible with the library’s mission, and these are outlined in the sections that follow. Du Bois tower was the primary challenge: how to find ways to exploit the building’s potential yet mitigate its challenges.Publication Planning for Student Union Functions Study(2012-01-01) Pavlova-Gillham, LudmillaThis is a report to the UMass Amherst Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life that identifies current and future co-curricula student activities on campus and develops creative solutions to help meet those needs. The report includes an inventory of existing activities, maps their campus distribution and proposes a preliminary campus-wide space program for those activities.Publication UMass Amherst Green Building Guidelines 2013(2013-01-01) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Mendoza, Ted; Small, Ezra; O'Flaherty, Patricia; Mostafavi, Nariman; Farzinmoghadam, Mohamed; Pozveh, Somayeh TabatabaeeFacilities & Campus Services, Sustainable UMass and Campus Planning support sustainability and energy conservation initiatives by providing in-house resources to campus staff as well as designers and contractors working with the University. The UMass Amherst Green Building Guidelines provide a framework for approaching new construction and major renovation projects at UMass Amherst that are undergoing LEED certification by focusing the conversation on green building aspects that are most important to the campus. They are intended to be the beginning of a dynamic conversation between designers, environmental consultants and constructors, university stakeholders, and users of new high performance buildings.Publication UMass Amherst Energy Modeling Guidelines(2015-01-01) Mostafavi, Nariman; Mendoza, Ted; Quackenbush, Jeffrey G.; Beauregard, Sandy J; Burbank, Jason J; Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Landrey, Kylie A.Facilities & Campus Services, Sustainable UMass and Campus Planning support sustainability and energy conservation initiatives by providing in-house resources to campus staff as well as designers and contractors working with the University. The Campus energy Modeling Guidelines were developed in 2015 as a resource on how to: i) generate energy models for campus buildings; ii) provide quality assurance review of current energy models; and iii) share UMass Amherst energy modeling input parameters with project design teams for them to establish a baseline building energy profile.Publication UMass Amherst Building Measurement, Verification, Coordination and Template Plan(2015-01-01) Mostafavi, Nariman; Mendoza, Ted; Quackenbush, Jeffrey G.; Beauregard, Sandy J; Burbank, Jason J; Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Landrey, Kylie A.; O'Flaherty, PatriciaFacilities & Campus Services, Sustainable UMass and Campus Planning support sustainability and energy conservation initiatives by providing in-house resources to campus staff as well as designers and contractors working with the University. The UMass Amherst Building Measurement, Verification, Coordination and Template Plan was begun in 2013 and finalized in 2015 as a resource to project teams that undertake the measurement and verification of building systems during the first year of occupancy of a new building and renovation project, particularly projects undergoing LEED certification.