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Sustainable communities: The Atlanta Airport EcoDistrict
Journal of Airport Management,
10
(2),
138-144
(2016)
Abstract
Sustainable practices in asset management are becoming new business requirements. This paper shows how an airport community consisting of the airport operator, airlines, concession operators and other organisations doing business at the airport have come together to work in concert to improve sustainability at the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. This community, the Airport EcoDistrict ATL Community, is illustrated by examining the development and operation of one of the committees of the EcoDistrict — the Utilities Committee. Through policy development, third party consultation and identification and development of other resources, the committee is empowering its members to develop and implement sustainable energy and water efficiency improvement measures.
Keywords: EcoDistrict; sustainability; efficiency; community; utilities
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Author's Biography
Charles F. Marshall has over 20 years of utilities and facilities management experience. Charles is the airport engineering manager for asset management with the asset management and sustainability division of the Planning and Development Bureau of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He has worked with the Department of Defense as a resource efficiency manager, focusing on energy management, energy performance contracting, building automated systems, energy security and renewable energy. Fort Benning, the US Army’s largest training installation, has received numerous accolades for its energy programme with Charles serving on the energy management team to help the installation move towards reaching the mandated federal energy regulation goals. Charles also worked with the energy management team of the Atlanta Housing Authority, at that time the USA’s fourth-largest housing authority, to implement the first energy savings performance contract for a public housing authority, while managing its energy management programme. Being a panellist, conference speaker, former college instructor, trustee of the Christian College of Georgia, charter member of the Energy Manager Society, member of Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge Steering Committee, the advisory council with the Emory University’s Center for Ethics CREATE programme, and chair of the Airport EcoDistrict ATL (the world’s first airport EcoDistrict) Utilities Subcommittee, Charles has a longstanding history of sustainability, energy and facility management service to which he serves as an energy advocate today, publishing articles on energy management, as a panellist for the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program, and as an industry subject matter expert.
