1. City of Rock Hill
Sustainable
Operations
Plan
Project Workshop
8.21.12 – 8.22.12

2. Who are we?
BEN M. BEN H. FRED
Project Officer Project Manager QA/QC Officer
Chad Critcher, PE, AICP LEED
, William Todd, PE, CEM, LEED Paul Hutchins, PhD, PE, CEM,
AP BD+C BD+C LEED AP
Deputy PM / Principal Investigator
Ben Moore, LEED GA
Project Team
Beverly Davis, AICP Ben Huron, CHMM Paul Mehaffy, PE, LEED AP*
Candace Dorn, LEED AP Frederick Jones, AICP Nathan Stinnette
Hugh Giggleman, PE* Chi Lui, PE, CEM, CxA, LEED AP Matt Thoele, EI, LEED AP

3. Award-
Employee winning
Owned
Tradition
Multi- to 1941
Discipline
Staff
Office locations
Past sustainability projects

4. What are we doing?
Implementation Sustainable
Planning
Planning
Efficiency
Public Facilities
Facilitation
Regulatory
Framework
Baseline Assessment

5. Where are we now?
Planning
Baseline
Info
Kick-off Assess- Facilities
Request
ment
Regulatory
Interim Implementation
Workshop Planning
Findings (Funding & Next
on Site (SMPs)
Memo Steps)
Draft Final Future
Report Report Phases…
Complete
In Progress
Incomplete

6. Workshop Objectives
1. Review Baseline Assessment
2. Calibrate w/ input from you
3. Identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities &
Threats
4. Establish Vision & Significant Sustainability
Aspects
5. Create Goals, Objectives, and Metrics

7. Workshop Agenda
1. Awareness
2. Baseline
3. Creative Strategies
4. Develop a Plan

8. Agenda: Day 1
(1:00 PM – 5 PM)
Step Agenda Item: Workshop Tool Time
Awareness 1. Introduction Icebreaker 45 min
2. Develop an awareness of sustainability
3. Discuss what sustainability means to the City
of Rock Hill
Baseline 1. Review and discuss baseline data and Baseline 1.0 hrs
findings Assessment
2. Break Break 15 min
3. Continue review and discussion of baseline Baseline 45 min
data and findings Assessment
4. Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities SWOT Analysis 1.25 hrs
and threats.

9. Awareness
• Shared understanding
• Big-picture
perspective
• Conservation CO2
• Efficiency
• Innovation

10. What is Sustainability?
“Sustainable development is
development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”
Brundtland Commission, 1987

12. Population
12
10
8
Billions
6
4
2
0
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500

14. Balanced Approach
Resource
Efficiency

15. Rock Hill’s Definition of
Sustainability

16. Baseline
• Where are we now?
• What are the Significant
Aspects of our
operation?

17. Discuss Baseline

18. SWOT
Internal factors
Strengths (S) Understand Identify
Weaknesses (W) Strengths Weaknesses
External factors
Opportunities (O)
Threats (T)
Find Consider
Identify Themes and Opportunities Threats
Big Ideas

19. Conduct SWOT

20. City of Rock Hill
Sustainable
Operations
Plan
Project Workshop
8.21.12 – 8.22.12

21. Agenda: Day 2
Day 2 (8:00 AM – 12:00 PM)
Step Agenda Item: Workshop Tool Time
Day 1 Review 1. Review SWOT SSA 30 min
2. Discuss Significant Sustainability Aspects
Creative Strategies 1. Identify the gap between desired future vision for City of Rock Hill and current Backcasting 1.0 hrs
reality.
a. Reflect on Baseline
b. Establish overall sustainability goal/vision for each aspect
2. Identify Creative Strategies to help close the gap between the future vision and
the present situation.
a. Establish interim goals for each aspect
b. Identify strategies of interest
3. Break Break 15 min
Continue Backcasting exercise Backcasting 45 min
Develop a Plan 1. Evaluate strategies with respect to their potential benefit: Draft SMP 1.0 hrs
a. Determine if strategies move City in the Right Direction, provide Return
on Investment, and work as Launching Points for more ambitious
measures.
Review 1. Review and establish consensus Next Steps 30 min
2. Next Steps
3. Closing Remarks

22. Review SWOT
Understand Identify
Strengths Weaknesses
Find Consider
Opportunities Threats

23. Significant Aspects
1. Land Use &
Transporation
2. Energy
3. Fleet
4. Waste
5. Water

24. Creative Strategies
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter F. Drucker
Backcasting:
Backcasting is about
deciding what future
is desired, then
identifying steps to
achieve it.

25. Creative Strategies
Backcasting:
Vision
• Envision a more
sustainable future
• Reflect on the baseline
and consider the gap
Baseline

26. Creative Strategies
Backcasting: Vision
• Come up with strategies
to bridge the gap
Strategy
Baseline

27. Evaluate Strategies
• Does it generate a return on
investment?
• Does it move us in the right
direction?
• Does it provide a starting point?

28. SMP Sustainability
Management Plan

29. Backcasting
1. Write down an ambitious 20 year goal
2. Consider gap between the goal &
today
3. Write down goals for years 5, 3 and 1
4. Brainstorm Creative Strategies
5. Schedule strategies by cost
6. Identify a Metric for measuring
progress

30. Conduct Backcasting

31. Conduct Backcasting
Significant 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 20 Year / Long Term
Sustainability City of Rock Hill City of Rock Hill City of Rock Hill City of Rock Hill
Aspect 1 Year Goal: 3 Year Goal: 5 Year Goal: Ambitious 20 Year Goal:
Strategy: Strategy: Strategy: Strategy:
Metric: Metric: Metric: Metric:
Choose One:
Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low
Strategy: Strategy: Strategy: Strategy:
Energy
Metric: Metric: Metric: Metric:
Water Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low
Strategy: Strategy: Strategy: Strategy:
Waste
Metric: Metric: Metric: Metric:
Fleet Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low
Strategy: Strategy: Strategy: Strategy:
Planning Metric: Metric: Metric: Metric:
Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low Cost: High Med Low