Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.40
Liaison Andy Mitchell
Submission Date Sept. 11, 2014
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University of Illinois Chicago
OP-17: Guidelines for Business Partners

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.75 / 1.00 Cynthia Klein-Banai
Associate Chancellor for Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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How many of the institution’s business partners are covered by policies, guidelines and/or agreements that require adherence to minimum environmental standards?:
Some

How many of the institution’s business partners are covered by policies, guidelines and/or agreements that require adherence to minimum standards governing employee wages, benefits, working conditions and rights?:
All

A copy of the policies, guidelines, and/or agreements with the institution's business partners (or a representative sample):
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The policies, guidelines, and/or agreements with the institution's business partners (or a representative sample):

Policies can be found below in the "Notes" sections, with website URL's the various guidelines for contractors, facilities, building sustainability standards, business and financial policies, and consulting.


A brief description of programs and strategies institution has implemented to ensure that the guidelines are followed, including a brief description of instances when the guidelines have changed purchasing behavior, if applicable:

Each campus at the University of Illinois has adopted LEED requirements for Capital Projects above a threshold level specific to each campus. The expectations for the University of Illinois's professional services consultants for providing LEED services are spelled out in our professional services contracts shown in the http://www.uocpres.uillinois.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_992653/file/UI/ProjDocs/forms/psa.pdf. Also in the professional services contracts are directives for our professional services consultants to follow facility standards that include energy and environmental requirements when putting together bid documents for construction. The standards would have changed design considerations for energy efficiency as well as associated purchasing behaviors in many instances. One example would be the requirement to only use wood products certified to have been sustainably grown for harvest to avoid using wood that may have been harvested from a rain forest. Another example would be the incorporation of heat wheels to reclaim exhaust air heat that would normally be sent to the atmosphere as well as more energy efficient motors and air handling units.


The website URL where information about the institution’s guidelines for its business partners is available:
http://www.fs.illinois.edu/resources/facilities-standards

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