Building Sustainability @ Cal Program Now Hiring
The Building Sustainability @Cal (BS@C) Program is looking for a student to serve as one of the four Program Coordinators.
Training will be provided, but some experience with environmental issues is required. This position requires at least a one-year commitment.
To learn more, see below or contact Laura Moreno at lmoreno@berkeley.edu
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Building Sustainability @ Cal (BS@C) Program trains and utilizes students to help reduce the environmental footprint of buildings by educating building inhabitants and identifying structural and operational changes that can be made to the building, in addition to designing and implementing educational projects.
The BS@C Program is looking for a student to serve as one of the four Program Coordinators.
The Program Coordinator would:
1) Help oversee a service learning class on sustainability
2) Train students how to perform waste, water, and lighting audits and implement projects/programs
3) Manage student interns working in buildings
4) Work with staff and faculty to help reduce the environmental impacts of campus buildings
Training will be provided for the program coordinator, but some experience with environmental issues is required. This position requires at least a one-year commitment.
Required Qualifications:
1) Student must be self-motivated and organized
2) Must have good writing-skills
3) Must be proficient in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
4) Willing and able to work with staff, faculty, and students
5) Some experience with environmental issues
Preferred Qualifications:
1) Proficient in web design
2) Managerial experience
3) Experience with environmental education
For more information about this position or the Building Sustainability at Cal Program, see below or contact Laura Moreno (lmoreno@berkeley.edu)
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to Laura Moreno, lmoreno@berkeley.edu by June 30th, 2008.
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Students in the BS@C Program seek to reduce the environmental impact of campus buildings and they accomplish this in many ways. The students administer a building occupant survey to ascertain the opinions and habits of building occupants in regards to sustainability. The students also perform lighting, waste, and water audits. Results from the audits and inhabitant survey guide the creation of a sustainability plan of action that identifies both long-term and short-term changes that can be made to decrease the building's environmental impact. Students then implement programs or design projects to reduce the environmental impact of campus buildings. All of the audits are done to Leadership in Energy and Environmental and Design for Existing Buildings (LEED EB) or campus standards. This program is two-pronged in that it reduces environmental impacts two ways: 1) through two service learning classes; and 2) by hiring student interns in buildings. The classes are run and the program is managed by students.
This program meshes the academic and the operational aspects of the university and is a unique collaboration of students, faculty, and staff. It uses the concept of service learning classes to focus thenvit university's academic acumen directly on the university's operations. It does this by starting the process of assessing buildings for green building certification and qualifying the buildings for several prerequisites and points. The sustainability plans of action generated for several campus buildings will also be presented and submitted to the new Sustainability Office, Capital Projects, Physical Plant- Campus Services and other relevant campus entities upon completion and will help guide future campus renovations and sustainability initiatives.
