The Operations Subcommittee brings together students, faculty members, staff, and external partners as applicable, to collaborate on sustainability projects with operational and academic activities. It also works on staff training initiatives and tri-campus operational collaboration and coordination.
The Tri-Campus Sustainability Board was a committee created in 2007 to bring together those working on operational sustainability. As its mandate now overlaps strongly with that of the newly created Operations Subcommittee, it was decided to fold the Tri-Campus Sustainability Board into the Operations Subcommittee.
Operations Subcommittee Goals
- Involving 1000 students/year on CLL projects on campus
- Establishing global leadership in sustainability standards
- Signature sustainability projects
Campus as a Living Lab
The Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) projects aim to bring together faculty members, students, staff, and, where appropriate, external partners to collaborate on developing sustainability projects that combine operational and academic activities. Such projects contribute to the operational sustainability goals of the University while providing an opportunity for research and experiential learning, where students are directly involved in addressing real world sustainability problems of interest to the University.
The concept of a Living Lab Project is used at several institutions. To aid in creating a common understanding among different partners in living lab projects, the CECCS has created and adopted a set of guiding principles that define what a ‘living lab’ activity is for the University, regardless of the activity’s location at the University, the type of client involved, or the student, staff, or faculty involvement. Although CECCS is not involved in all living lab projects and these principles are not exhaustive of the types of activities going on at the University, the purpose of these campus as living lab principles is to develop a path for U of T to become a leader in integrating operations and academic activity around sustainability on all three campuses.
Learn more about Campus as a Living Lab here.
Membership
Marianne Hatzopoulou (Co-Chair); Professor and Chair, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering; Director, Positive Zero Transport Futures
Catherine Thorn (Co-Chair); Director, Sustainability & Energy Management, Facilities & Services
Beverley Ayeni, Senior Manager, Sustainability and Energy Management, UTM
Ahmed Azhari, Managing Director, Operations, Sustainability & Asset Management, UTM
Maureen Beckett, Project Manager, University Planning, Design & Construction
Roger Bulgin, Chief Administrative Officer, Woodsworth; Arts & Science
Kenneth Corts, Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources; Academic Director, Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship; Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship; Professor, Rotman School of Management
Patricia Escobar, Sustainability Manager, UTSC
Sarah Hinves, Senior Planner, Infrastructure Planning; Arts & Science
Jeffrey Miller, Director, Facilities Management & Capital Projects, UTSC
Shoshanna Saxe, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Nicole Spiegelaar, Assistant Professor, Teaching Steam, School of the Environment; Academic Director, Trinity’s Integrated Sustainability Initiative; Arts & Science
Project Manager: Kristy Bard