(E09) Net Zero Nexus: Climate Response with Existing Campus Infrastructure

The aging infrastructure and building stock within existing campuses pose unique challenges to achieving significant emissions reduction targets. This presentation will share a high-level overview of critical strategies, such as zero carbon retrofits, decarbonization, and equity-based carbon action planning, followed by specific stories from two institutions: the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada and the University of California system. The University of California will share its approach to achieving carbon neutrality in its buildings and fleet by 2025, levering energy efficiency and renewable energy. The University of Calgary will share its Zero Carbon Building program. The ZCB certified MacKimmie Complex demonstrates the transformation of a brutalist, energy hog library to a naturally ventilated, passively conditioned and daylit academic building on track to use 80% less energy than the original building while saving 2800 tons of CO2e compared to a new building.