Portland Community College
IL-69: Innovation E
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Stephania
Fregosi Sustainability Analyst Academic Affairs |
Name of the innovative outcome, program, or initiative:
Does the innovation represent a new, extraordinary, unique, ground-breaking, or uncommon outcome, program, or initiative that addresses a sustainability challenge and is not covered by an existing credit?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the innovation:
PCC established the Climate Friendly Fleet & Equipment Initiative, to support goals related to the college’s Strategic Plan, Climate Action Plan and Facilities Plan. The purpose of this initiative was to develop and/or update policies/standard operating procedures and equipment to support fleet vehicle and diesel equipment emissions reduction targets, establish a roadmap for fleet electrification at PCC, and support better air quality on campus and in the communities we serve. As a result of this initiative, PCC joined the Breaking Barriers Fleet Decarbonization Accelerator program, a hands-on, cohort-based program that equips businesses and organizations with the knowledge, tools, and networks to create actionable fleet decarbonization plans. With representation from PCC Sustainability and Planning & Capital Construction, this helped establish a foundational understanding of fleet electrification and create a roadmap to support the college’s fleet conversion efforts. Additionally, the college hired a consultant to establish a charging infrastructure plan that addressed both fleet and community charging needs.
To further our impact in this arena, the college signed onto the City of Portland’s Clean Air Construction program, ensuring that all construction across the many Bond-funded projects happening at the college met this new program’s diesel emissions reduction standards. The Clean Air Construction Program is a collaboration among six public agencies and PCC to reduce diesel emissions from our collective construction projects, aiming to accomplish this by: implementing a standard set of idle reduction and diesel equipment requirements on job sites and implementing a regional program to verify compliance with the requirements. The college undertook to improve air quality on campus by electrifying much of the hand-held grounds equipment, which runs on a two-stroke engine. This improved conditions for workers by reducing pollution at an immediate source. Taking this commitment even further, PCC also hired a consultant to inventory diesel equipment college-wide to ensure operational and educational equipment or vehicles also met the Clean Air Construction Program’s new standards.
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