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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The success of LEED Lab would not have been possible without the support of John
Garvey, President of The Catholic University of America (CUA), and Randall Ott, former
Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, who supported the LEED O+M certication
of our Crough Center for Architectural studies and encouraged my teaching and research
which led to this publication.
I would like to thank the amazing Jaime Van Mourik, ORISE Science, Technology and
Policy Fellow in the Building Technologies Ofce of the US Department of Energy, for her
unwavering collaboration of the LEED Lab pilot, its promotion, and partnering with our
institution towards many mutual sustainability goals. I’m also indebted to Roger Chang,
Senior Engineer – and that of his staff at the DLR Group – who volunteered their time to
help our research in mechanical system analysis, and to conduct our ASHRAE level 1 and II
surveys as a contribution to higher educational learning. Much gratitude also goes to Brian
Alexander, the former Director of Energy and Utilities Management at CUA, for procuring
any equipment we needed to facilitate the course, and for learning with us the ways of
LEEDing via a Lab at CUA!
Aligned with its launch, I would like to thank Chris Grech, former Director of the Master of
Science in Sustainable Design (MSSD) program and former Associate Deans Ann Cederna
and George Martin, who established the course and promoted LEED Lab’s advancement
long ago, without hesitation. Deserving of special mention is former Research Dean, Barry
Yatt, who condently promoted the course, and convinced me to write this textbook.
Those staff members who traversed semester after semester with my students, and
who provided me with the practical knowledge necessary to produce this publication, I
would like to recognize as well. Those people include: Debra Nauta-Rodriguez, University
Architect and Associate Vice President for Facilities Planning and Management, and Alex
Harry, Assistant Director of Campus Facilities and Sustainability Initiatives who continue
to support the triad of learning between faculty, staff and students and without whom
LEED Lab’s continuing success would not exist. Also deserving of mention is Chris Vetick,
former Assistant Director of Ground Maintenance along with Charles Lakey (Sports and
Turf manager) and William Moore (Grounds Manger), who activated many of the ideas to
the campus grounds which my students proposed; Clark Rodano our Master Electrician,
who knew where each air handling unit existed and who provided me an introduction to the
complex world of metering and tracking; Karen Kramer, Director of Facilities Administration
and Services who provided many recommendations benecial to understanding the reality
of procurement and campus operations; Kelly Geishauser Assistant Director of Facilities
Maintenance whose knowledge and ‘back-of-house’ access to each building on campus
made our course and learning simply fun; and nally the most dedicated Glenda Flores,
Assistant Director of Custodial Services who began to take seriously greening protocol
from our very rst charrette – our Green Cleaning Policy was easily achieved and active in
advance of other universities due to Glenda’s attention and initiatives.
There are many students who also deserve my appreciation. First, I would like to
formally recognize those instrumental in completing this publication. Most notable is
Elizabeth Meyers who, for one year, became the prime graphic designer for the diagrams
in this publication and organizer of the side lessons. Also, Allison Davin who assisted in
wrapping up the manuscript and making sure it was written well enough for any level of
college student to understand. I would like to recognize Milan Glisic
’,
who greatly assisted
with the graphics of the comparisons, assembling the Teaching Toolbox, and gathering
data about the myriad global rating systems. From the book’s inception, I would like to
recognize Vanessa Hostick who initially helped to assemble the entire Teaching Toolbox,
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and Ana Paraon for her technical assistance in completing the Documentation Phase of our
rst LEED Lab so well that we had an actual certied project from which to learn and write
about for this textbook. I also feel very obliged to Christine Gibney for her contribution of
case studies from the LEED Lab class which she has been teaching at CUA this past year.
Other students who contributed to this publication are Jazzmin Reid who assembled the
book in preparation for its rst draft, and the many wonderful students whose participation
in the course taught me the most valuable knowledge necessary in order to write this book.
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