About the Zero+ Project
Envisioning the Sustainable Campus
ZERO+ COLLABORATIONS
The Zero+ Campus Design Project brings together the University of Minnesota’s Department of Landscape Architecture, the School of Architecture, the Institute on the Environment, the Capital Planning and Project Management staff, and faculty and students from affiliated programs to develop campus solutions that can eliminate or have a net-positive effect on emissions, pollutants, and waste streams to reduce long-term costs and align campus operations with the content of related teaching and research. The project includes the development zero+ curriculum, an online resource, design tools, and demonstration projects to foster zero-emission campus design, planning and performance. Learn more...
WHAT IF? Students Envision the Campus
Student videos envisioning a sustainable campus: Video Catalyst
News
Integrating Energy and Water
GREENING THE CAMPUS CONFERENCE
The Zero+ Campus Design Project Team will be presenting a paper at the Ball State Greening the Campus IX Conference in March 2012. The paper provides an overview of the effforts and outcomes to date: Zero+ Curriculum Models, Assessment Methods and Tools, Project Outcomes and Lessons
Ball State Paper: Zero+ Campus Design: Integrating Energy and Water in Early Design
SPRING 2012: BIKE PASTURE DETAILING
LA 8575:
The Art and Ecology of Landscape Detailing
Professors John Koepke and Rebecca Krinke will be working with landscape architecture students to further develop the proposed "Ecological Bike Pasture" landscape design and detailing in their spring course "The Art and Ecology of Landscape Detailing". The work will be shared later in the semester.
CAPITAL PLANNING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT NEWS
Monique MacKenzie (MUP, AICP) was appointed the new Director of Planning and Architecture at Capital Planning and Project Management for the University of Minnesota.
Demonstration Project
Testing Strategies
ECOLOGICAL "BIKE PASTURE" PLANNED
Congratulations to CDes students Elizabeth Turner (architecture), Emily Lowery (landscape architecture), Derek Shilling (landscape architecture), and other students for their leadership in developing and obtaining funding for the first ever ecologically friendly “bike pasture” to be installed near the southwest entry of Rapson Hall. Minnesota Daily Article
SUPPORT FOR THE BIKE PASTURE
President Kaler will provide $15,000 to the Minnesota Student Organization to support construction of the bike pasture, social space, and gardens. The project will be launched on Earth Day 2012 with opportunities for hands-on student participation.
The Bike Pasture is a demonstration garden for the Zero Plus Campus Design Project funded by the Provost's Office. This interdisciplinary project is lead by CDes faculty Lance Neckar, Barry Lehrman (now at the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly - Pomona), Mary Guzowski, Loren Abrahman, and students Derek Schilling, Elizabeth Turner, and Dawn Keeler.