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  • Campus Composting: Spreading Seeds and Sustainable Reads

    Brooke McKivergan | April 19, 2023
    From handmade seed paper to a student-designed fold-out magazine, Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) is partnering with a Design Activism course to get the word out about composting around campus. When Associate Professor of Design, Susan Melsop, approached FOD and the Sustainability Institute about working together on the Design Activism for Sustainability project, FOD Zero Waste Manager...

  • Target Value Budgeting Training

    Brooke McKivergan | April 17, 2023
    As part of the FDC Stakeholders insight project, Loren Brockway and Michael Horejsi led a discussion on managing project development using target value budgeting for FDC personnel. The duo touched on several topics including thinking comprehensively about all elements that drive success through the entirety of a project. It’s all about aligning the budget to the scope and the basis of design...

  • Join the Campus Clean-Up on April 18

    Brooke McKivergan | March 29, 2023
    Updated: April 7, 2023 Please Note: Registration is now closed. Celebrate earth month and environmental wellness by joining Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) on April 18 for a spring campus clean-up. Volunteers will be entered into a special drawing to receive a Zero Waste kit, including a Buckeyes Compost t-shirt, a Hydroflask water bottle and a compost bin for your kitchen! Research...
    Pink flowers on the oval with a tree in the background

  • Recycling the Present, Saving the Future: The Results of Ohio State’s Waste Characterization Study

    Brooke McKivergan | March 29, 2023
    The results are in from Facilities Operations and Development’s (FOD) two-phase waste characterization study on waste and recycling generated on Ohio State’s main campus. Baseline data was collected in fall 2021 as part of phase one and multiple waste program enhancements were made to improve how materials were being managed on campus, including: Food waste composting collection expanded from 39...
    Students sorting waste and collecting comparison data.

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