Toolkits & Frameworks

Sustainable Events Certification

To bring sustainability to the forefront of event planning at UFV, the OoS created the Sustainable Event Certification. The associated checklist provides direction to event holders, guiding them towards sustainable actions pre-, during, and post-event. The checklist includes resources and ideas to make changes for the materials, gifts, catering, and marketing used for events.

Those taking the time to make meaningful changes to their event planning and implementation are acknowledged with their certification ranking. Making sustainability more visible encourages influential conversations and can normalize it, becoming a natural habit rather than a conscious decision.

This initiative is open to anyone hosting an event through, or at, UFV.

Construction and Demolition Waste Management Tool

The Construction and Demolition Waste Management Tool was created to help streamline planning, preparation, documentation, tracking, and reporting of waste and recyclable materials generated through building construction and renovations on campus. This encourages sorting into the proper waste and recycling streams to prevent unnecessary waste from ending up in landfills. The tool is already in use by UFV's Capital Projects department and has been successful in conceptualizing and diverting waste.

Material Diversion and Divestment Management Tool

The Material Diversion and Divestment Management Tool was created to help with asset and material management for any type of project with the goal of itemizing and tracking different materials being put out of use by the University. Once categorized, users can see full amounts of various materials in each item being decommissioned which makes diversion planning more fluid for selling, reusing, and recycling purposes. This tool is applicable to decommissioning, renovation, structural reorganizing, and low scale inventory projects.

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