TRB conducted a webinar on September 10, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that provided an understanding of airport environmental sustainability practices, the impacts they may have on day-to-day operations and maintenance, and how to drive performance improvements through contract language.
TRB Webinar: Evaluating and Improving Airport Environmental Sustainability Practices from The National Academies.
Webinar Presenters
- Jennifer Salerno, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Ryan Burke, LeighFisher
Moderated by: Amy Malick,
Haley & Aldrich
Webinar Outline
- PART 1: ACRP Report 110: Evaluating Impacts of Sustainability Practices on Airport Operations and Maintenance
- Development of an Evaluation Process and Cost Benefit Tool (EP&CBT) that assists airports in determining the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) impacts of implementing sustainability practices
- Case study on obtaining data from current practices and potential improvements to the way airports evaluate the O&M impacts of implementing a sustainability practice
- Demonstration of EP&CBT using an actual sustainability practice
- PART 2: ACRP Synthesis 42: Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Airport Contracts
- Driving environmental sustainability performance improvements through the integration of new language in contracts
- The leverage of contract language in an airport operator’s ability to improve sustainability
- Industry trends, best practices, case studies, organizational strategies, and actual contract language from airports around the world
- PART 3: Question and answer session
The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate the day-to-day impacts of sustainability practices; and
- Summarize how to increase the use of contracts as an efficient mechanism for delivering environmental sustainability improvements.
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Registration Information
This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.
Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit
www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact
accreditation@aaae.org.
American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar has been approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.
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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at
RGillum@nas.edu.
This Summary Last Modified On: 10/22/2014