Carol Dollard

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College

Facilities Management

Department

Facilities Management

Category

Energy, Sustainability

Areas of Expertise

Renewable energy

Dollard manages design and installation of renewable energy systems at Colorado State University.

Dollard is an energy engineer in Facilities Management and co-chair of the President’s Sustainability Commission. Her responsibilities include coordinating energy and water efficiency projects, implementing renewable energy projects and the design, construction and maintenance of campus utility systems.

In her 24+ years at CSU, Dollard has helped make university operations more sustainable. These efforts include 43 photvoltaic installations totaling nearly 11.2 MW, three LEED Platinum and dozens of LEED Gold buildings, and over $20 million of energy and water efficiency projects.

Dollard leads a team that conducts the university’s annual greenhouse gas inventory and produces updates to the CSU Climate Action Plan. She also is also part of a team that submits the STARS – Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System administered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education – reporting metric for the university. CSU was the first university to reach Platinum STARS rating, and is still the only university to repeat that feat four times.

Dollard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from CSU.