The Parking Professional December 2018

INTERNATIONAL PARKING & MOBILITY INSTITUTE | DECEMBER 2018

BUILDING WELL

Strategies, linkages, and lessons for the industry. 28

BUILDING IN WOOD

Engineered wood comes to parking garage construction. 36

GREENING THE ENVIRONMENT

How certification programs LEED and Parksmart extend sustainability. 44

HONORING AN URBANIST

The work of Jane Jacobs and what it means to parking. 48

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Features

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A Year in the Life

Sustainable parking and mobility projects from 2018.

By Megan Leinart, LEED AP BD+C

28

Building WELL

Strategies, linkages, and lessons for the parking, transportation, and mobility industry.

By Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C

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Sustainable Parking Garages in Wood

Engineered wood is a sustainable, strong, and attractive new entry to the parking construction-materials category.

By Jonathan C. Ellowitz, PE, and Paul Wessel

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Greening the Environment

How certification programs LEED and Parksmart are extending sustainability.

By Trevyr Meade, LEED GA

48

Honoring an Urbanist

The work of Jane Jacobs and what it means to parking.

By L. Dennis Burns. CAPP

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Departments 4 ENTRANCE

Doing Business Abroad

By Alejandro Jaramillo

6 FIVE THINGS

About Amazing Green Buildings

8 MOBILITY & TECH

Technology of Parking and Market Disruption

By Jeff Pinyot

10 THE GREEN STANDARD

I Was Going to Recycle, but …

By Yasser Jabbari

12 THE BUSINESS OF PARKING It’s Time for Your ADA Audit

By Michael J. Ash, Esq., CRE

14 FINANCIAL MATTERS

Four Year-End Investment Tips

By Mark A. Vergenes

16 PARKING SPOTLIGHT

The 2018 IPMI Leadership Summit Educates and Entertains

18 ASK THE EXPERTS 52 IN SHORT 54 STATE AND REGIONAL

SPOTLIGHT MSTPA Soars through 2018

The Most Wonderful Time

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DO MY SPRING CLEANING IN DECEMBER . It’s actually snowing as I write this so to say it’s not very spring-like is a pretty big understatement. By the time this gets to your eyes, I’ll be laundering down comforters, wiping down baseboards and crown moldings, emptying and cleaning cabinet shelves, and trying to throw away or donate anything the rest of the family doesn’t hide.

Weird, right? But it makes perfect sense to me. I normally have a house full of people for Christmas and must perpetuate the illusion that we, like all those people whose houses are in magazines, actually live in a don’t-touch-it museum (yeah, right). Plus, January comes next. Who doesn’t like a fresh start in January? Kicking things off with a spotless house goes hand-in-hand with new calendars, clear desktops, and resolutions that it’s all going to stay that way until this time next year.

My cleaning routine includes a lot more recycling than it used to, a lot more passing along of stuff than it used to, and a lot more natural cleaners than it used to. I still hit a few chemical cleaners for the really tough stuff, but a steam mop takes care of the gunk on the floors, vinegar and water clean my countertops and glass (we traded traditional fabric softener in for vinegar a long time ago), and elbow grease makes a world of difference when they don’t clean right up. Perhaps my next car will plug in, and maybe my next house will be solar-powered, but for now small green changes make a difference.

We hope you enjoy this sustainability-focused issue, and we’d love to hear from you: How has your operation gone greener? Post to the Forum member community or reach out on social media.

I wish you a warm and cozy holiday season filled with joy, and a sparkling clean and productive new year. Until next month…

By Liz Zimmer

56 AROUND THE INDUSTRY 64 PARKING CONSULTANTS 66 ADVERTISERS INDEX 67 CALENDAR

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Doing Business Abroad

By Alejandro Jaramillo

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HE PARKING INDUSTRY IS VERY COMPLEX outside of the U.S. If we look at countries from Mexico to Chile, none has a parking administration office in its city. This may be because they are not interested or because they have not discovered the business behind this industry. It’s not a secret that no one likes to pay for this service, yet we must do it.

Managing these operations when nobody likes you is very complicated, even more when our leaders do not give us the freedom to grow as private businesses.

It is believed in other countries that everyone who works in this industry is a multimillionaire.

If you not believe this, just do the math the way they do it: $$ = Number of Spaces x 24 Hours x 30 days x parking fee per hour I know all of you already figured out where the error is. Twenty-four and 30 are not real numbers. How about four and 20? Big difference.

Developers work with real estate investors during construction, hoping to make spaces profitable. But a parking lot isn’t always profitable. Therefore, malls, office buildings, hospitals, universities, and even airports are limited to building the spaces construction laws require so as not to waste commercial space. When they invite a parking operator to operate the built lot, it’s quite complicated due to engineering and design errors that make good service difficult. The government and developers do not understand that Parking Matters, and that they should invite us from the beginning of the planning.

Consider Bogotá, Colombia. The government does not invest a single

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peso in infrastructure for the parking industry, and yet they take more than 80 percent of the income in direct and indirect taxes. Rates are regulated, and fees in Bogotá have been the same since 2009: $.03 (U.S.) per minute.

Bogota has 8 million people and more than 1.2 million cars on the streets.

Now there is another situation: In Colombia, the parking service is considered a contract for the deposit of an asset, not a lease. Therefore, the operator is 100 percent responsible for any damage caused to a vehicle inside the parking lot, such as theft, damage to shocks, scratches, etc.

I hope you understand how complex it is to operate parking lots in Latin America. No parking, no business.

ALEJANDRO JARAMILLO is

CEO of APD de Colombia SA and Day Parking SAS, and a member of IPMI’s board of directors. He can be reached at glotradeco@yahoo.es.

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THINGS TO KNOW

About Amazing Green Buildings We hear a lot about sustainable buildings that use green materials and techniques to help, instead of hurt, the environment. Most sustainable buildings aren’t distinguishable from their more traditional buildings, but these take design to a new level, creating modern marvels that beg to be explored. Here are five of our favorites:

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Bosco Verticale, Milan, Italy. Translating to “vertical forest,” this property lives up to its name, looking like a giant forest that stretches from ground to sky. Completed in 2014, its towers rise 360 feet and 249 feet and are home to more than 900 trees—each 10 to 30 feet tall—and 2,000 plants. Laid flat, they’d equate to a 7,000-square-meter (75,000-square-foot) forest that produces humidity, absorbs pollutants, and generates oxygen. See more, including how it was built, at bit.ly/milanverticalforest.

Stanford University’s Central Energy Facility. Ever thought about capturing the heat generated when the air conditioner runs? Stanford University in California did, and its energy facility does just that, providing 93 percent of the campus’s heating and hot-water generation with heat captured in a unique recovery system from the cooling process. The plant, which used to be gas-fired and now is powered by solar, has cut campus emissions by 68 percent. See it at on.natgeo. com/2z7Xz6Q.

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Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York. Brooklyn Bridge Park is a magnet for the community, offering everything from basketball to theater performances to educational programs to green space in which to hang out on a sunny day. But it’s also extraordinarily sustainable, making use of recycled building materials nearly everywhere— including granite from two bridge projects—recreating natural habitats, recycling stormwater, and growing its green organically.

Read more about it at brooklynbridgepark.org.

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One Angel Square, Manchester, U.K. Often called one of the most sustainable buildings in the world, One Angel Square hosts 16 stories of office space and two basement floors of parking, fitness facilities, and an auditorium. From building materials to lighting to management techniques, no detail was left to chance, and it’s all designed and operated to be as sustainable as possible. And it’s gorgeous to boot. Read about it at bit.ly/oneangel.

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Atocha Train Station, Madrid, Spain.

Ever seen a jungle in a train station? You’re about to—this amazing building’s waiting area is quite literally a jungle, with more than 500 species of plants in an indoor environment designed to calm and soothe travelers. It’s comfortable and beautiful and fun to explore. Check it out: bit.ly/madridstation.

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MOBILITY & TECH

Technology of Parking and Market Disruption

By Jeff Pinyot

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HE BUZZWORD IN BUSINESS IS “MARKET DISRUPTION.” The excitement about disrupting a market is that in the first place, we start with a thriving and confirmed market that is in the crosshairs of investors. Take the parking industry: It doesn’t take much research to acknowledge that parking is huge and profitable, so it’s a market worthy of looking for possible cracks and creases for new methodologies and possible disruption. If it currently takes 10 different vendor or specialty groups, from hangtag suppliers to PARCs providers, to have a functioning piece of vehicle real estate, but only four would be needed through new disruptive technologies, the one who figures out the proverbial Rubik’s Cube would be disruptive and enjoy a lucrative result.

What does market disruption mean and why should you care about it? In layman’s terms, something that disrupts a market is something that challenges the way it’s always been done and threatens its conventional wisdom. Take Blockbuster video stores: Its former stores are now outlets for Halloween costumes in October and sparklers in July. The empty storefronts are a reminder of a disrupted market. Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and others completely disrupted the video rental business Wayne

Huizenga created. Understand, there is still a market for watching movies—in fact a larger market that also includes the new verb “binge-watching.” We watch our entertainment in a more efficient manner.

Similarly, parking won’t go away disrupted—it will just be done differently.

I once heard “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban say he would invest in any disruptor of a proven market. Look at our industry, for example. Parking reservation apps are huge market disruptors and getting plenty of attention from venture capital firms.

When I go to Chicago overnight on business, I stay at the Palmer House. If I park my car with a valet, it’s going to cost me the price of tuition at nearby Northwestern University. But, if I use a parking app to find a space, I’ll save a bundle. That is market disruption.

There will always be an alternative to the posted rate.

Bridges over the Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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There are three market disruptors in Pittsburgh— three companies building autonomous vehicles. Why Pittsburgh? One reason: the Pittsburgh left (hang on—I’ll explain)! Well, that’s the main reason, but there are others. First, the city’s streets are not in a grid pattern. There are more bridges in Pittsburgh than in Venice, Italy.

Then, there is the Pittsburgh left. Say you are in a left-hand turn lane waiting for a green light, but the light turns green and there is no turn arrow. What to do? Not a problem if you are first in line in Pittsburgh.

The first car in line to go left simply turns in front

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Case Study: Pittsburgh

What does market disruption mean and why should you care about it? In layman’s terms, something that disrupts a market is something that challenges the way it’s always been done and threatens its conventional wisdom.

of the oncoming traffic and without anyone getting killed. It’s courtesy in the ‘Burgh to let the first driver through. The autonomous vehicle companies figured that if their driverless cars could do that, they can drive anywhere.

Transportation network companies (TNCs) Uber and Lyft have severely injured the taxi cab market, but they are also affecting airport parking. Smart airport parking operations are finding ways to make money from these disruptors. The reduced cost of TNCs means people who live closer to the airport Uber or Lyft there instead of driving and parking.

Everyone has their own equation as to the economics of Ubering versus driving and parking. But on the business side, fees for TNCs to enter airports and defined staging areas that require payment by the TNCs are making up some of the losses.

New Innovations

Frictionless parking is on everybody’s mind in the parking world. What innovation will we see next?

One of the big areas the industry has seen growth is in parking guidance systems (PGS). There are many players in that industry, from pucks to ultrasonic to camera-based. PGS can be costly but also can be justified quite easily, as their systems attract parkers to specific facilities. Some operators still guess when the garage is full and put the sign out proclaiming such. I’ve driven by many “full” garages where two or three cars were leaving.

Finding the Right Disruptors

When considering a new disruptive technology, ask questions! Competitors of new technologies might try to sink the claims of new innovators. Claims that wireless technologies aren’t proven, for example, challenge conventional wisdom, considering almost no one has wired phones anymore and we can stream hi-def videos on our smart devices almost anywhere.

The owner who thinks ahead will not only still be in business but will be making more money than ever before. Embrace and be flexible. As autonomous vehicles become common, parking spaces will shrink from nine feet to seven feet wide. Systems will have to adapt—and some already have. Buyers need to think ahead.

Thinking Ahead

Rick West is an alt-use specialist and CEO of the Millennium Parking Garage concession in Chicago, Ill. He is always looking for alternative uses for that massive behemoth. Have an alternative use plan in place so you aren’t left with open space and an empty wallet. Some alt uses are making more money than do parking spaces. As an industry, we should freely share best practices in this area.

A way of protection from empty spaces is right-sizing a garage. In right-sizing, design a garage that is the correct size and is flexible and fluid to the actual needs it will see. The best example I have is a mixed-use property that offers public parking on the lower three levels and gated resident parking on the top five levels. This guess rarely pays off. Rather than gating the top five levels, use a flexible line of demarcation. Expand the resident parking from the top down through a PGS and sell the extra spaces to the public, rather than having empty and unsellable spaces beyond the gate.

Change is good and prepared change is better.

What new market disruptors will we see in the next few years? Chicken Little, the sky is not falling, and no, little boy, there is no wolf!

JEFF PINYOT is president of ECO Falcon Vision

IPGS/ECO Lighting Solutions and member of IPMI’s Sustainability Committee. He can be reached at jspinyot@ecoparkinglights.com.

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THE GREEN STANDARD

I Was Going to Recycle, but …

By Yasser Jabbari

What was just described might be happening right now in any number of parking lots around the world. How do we convince our customers to act responsibly with the trash they bring into the parking lot? On the other end of it, are we giving customers the right opportunities in the right places to complete a sustainable act? A lack of trash cans or the wrong type of cans will negate any conscious effort to do the right thing.

put in front of our customers will make or break whether a person makes the right choice.

The example given above was actual feedback our department received from customers in our parking lots. When it came time to replace the garbage can lids, the new ones were selected because they had open lids that made it easy to just drop the trash in—no touching with one’s hands.

Offering the Right Stuff

Education

Disneyland has trash receptacles every 30 feet in any direction. They have figured out that people are only willing to walk 30 feet to throw out trash. They also have only two receptacles at any location: one for trash and one for glass and plastic bottles. The user’s choice becomes very simple at this point.

If you come across five different trash receptacles, are you going to stop and look at every single one to figure out which gets your half-eaten bagel and which gets your coffee cup, or are you just going to throw it in the trash and make peace with the compromise that it did not end up on the ground?

The small impediments we as operators

Along with accessibility and ease of use, sustainability needs to be driven with education, ideally before a customer even arrives at the parking facility.

Operators can take advantage of the recycling and trash norms most people adhere to that dictate how to discard refuse in the right way. But do we know what happens to that trash after it leaves our facilities?

What was once recyclable is no longer recyclable, and a well-meaning customer in a parking lot who thinks he or she is doing the right thing may not actually be at all. We need to make sure that the customer has the proper information so he or she really does the

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right thing. This goes hand-in-hand with easily accessible facilities that make the proper choices possible.

Consider pizza boxes. A pizza box is made from cardboard; cardboard can be recycled, so that goes into the blue recycling container. In actuality, because of the grease in the pizza, that box actually can’t be recycled and is now a contaminant in the recycling can. The same goes for paper cups or plates, which sometimes have plastic or petroleum lining to make them last longer. Contrary to first glance, these items are not recyclable and should be disposed of in a landfill bin.

In the end, the interaction between a customer and a trash can or recycling bin is very short and one-directional. To effect any kind of change, people must be educated before they ever come near a trash or recycling can so they can make the right choice.

While I applaud any organization that can effectively compost from a parking lot, most users of our facilities just want to be able to make a simple choice—the right choice—and move on with their day. Can we achieve that with a simple trash can and recycling bin and clear labeling? I believe that most people will use the receptacles as long as we don’t get in their way.

YASSER JABBARI works in

facilities for transportation and parking services at the University of California, Riverside, and is a member of IPMI’s Sustainability Committee. He can be reached at yasser.jabbari@ucr.edu.

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THE BUSINESS OF PARKING | LEGAL

It’s Time for Your ADA Audit

By Michael J. Ash, Esq., CRE

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HE LATEST RULES FOR ACCESS AND ACCOMMODATIONS in public and private facilities have been in effect since 2010, when the U.S. Department of Justice issued updated regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Requirements about access and accommodation have evolved since the 2010 regulations went into effect, as courts have interpreted the ADA regulations in response to litigation. While ADA regulations have very specific rules for public and private parking, lawsuits have created additional requirements for parking operators. Private and public parking operators should review their compliance with the ADA regulations and relevant judicial opinions in their jurisdictions to prevent expensive (and ­unanticipated) lawsuits.

Private and public parking operators should review their compliance with the ADA regulations and relevant judicial opinions in their jurisdictions to prevent expensive (and unanticipated) lawsuits.

The 2010 Regulations

The 2010 ADA amendments included new requirements for the quantity of accessible parking spaces and van-accessible parking spaces: ■■ Medical facilities require more accessible parking than other types of uses.

■■ Accessible parking spaces must connect to the building entrance by the shortest possible route and/or must be dispersed throughout a parking facility that serves multiple buildings.

■■ Accessible parking spaces must comply with strict design criteria to accommodate width, access aisles, and loading areas.

■■ They must be clearly marked with signage and striping to identify the availability of the accessible space and discourage others from parking in them.

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■■ Accessible parking spaces should be maintained

with a heightened standard of care to remove snow, debris, or other impediments to access.

Enforcement of the ADA regulations is often left to private parties and nonprofit advocacy groups through the filing of a lawsuit.

Drive-by Lawsuits

Complaints for non-compliant ADA facilities have increased dramatically since 2015. Under Title III of the ADA, a plaintiff is not entitled to money damages but can seek reimbursement of attorneys’ fees and costs. The provision for attorneys’ fees has created a niche practice area for attorneys filing lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs with disabilities.

Entities with perceived parking deficiencies are even more susceptible to lawsuits in violation of the ADA for “construction-related access claims.”

These lawsuits are commonly referred to as drive-by lawsuits because a potential plaintiff does not need to get out of his or her vehicle or patronize the establishment to spot a potential violation. It is not uncommon for a parking operator who is targeted with this type of suit to remediate the perceived violation and pay a nuisance settlement rather than incur the costs to litigate the matter.

ADA compliance through litigation has changed the requirements for accessible parking above and beyond the regulations.

On-street Parking

A recent California decision resulted in the extension of ADA accessibility guidelines to on-street parking where no requirement existed in the regulations themselves. In Fortyune v. City of Lomita, 766 F. 3d 1098 (9th Cir. 2014), the City of Lomita, Calif.,

was sued by a private citizen for failure to provide on-street accessible diagonal stall parking. The city attempted to dismiss the suit on the basis that the ADA regulations did not require accessible onstreet parking spaces. The lower court denied the city’s motion, finding “all public services must be readily accessible” to individuals with disabilities, “whether or not a federal agency has created specific guidelines for a particular service.” The court relied on the intent of the ADA regulations that make it unlawful to deny public service to individuals with disabilities.

This decision was upheld on appeal. The Ninth Circuit panel who considered the case noted that the absence of architectural guidelines does not preclude the city from making its on-street parking facilities accessible to people with disabilities. The Ninth Circuit made the specific finding that on-street parking is a “program, service, or activity” for purposes of Title II similar to the treatment of sidewalks that public entities have to ensure the accessibility

of, even though the Title II regulations do not specifically address sidewalks.

The resulting effect from the decision was for cities to reevaluate and address the accessibility of on-street parking, as well as their other programs, services, and activities, to ensure compliance with longstanding statutory obligations to avoid discrimination against individuals with disabilities, regardless of whether detailed regulations or specific guidelines addressing those programs, services, and activities exist.

Parking operators should consult with their attorneys and consultants to ensure compliance with ADA guidelines and for other potential liabilities to avoid the prevalent drive-by lawsuit.

MICHAEL J. ASH, Esq., CRE, is a partner with

Decotiis, Fitzpatrick, & Cole, LLP. He can be reached at mash@decotiislaw.com.

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FINANCIAL MATTERS

Four Year-end Investment Tips

By Mark A. Vergenes

1. Check for Portfolio Balance

Review your overall portfolio for balance.

If one type of investment has done well—for example, large-cap stocks— that investment type might have grown into a greater percentage of your portfolio than you originally intended. To rebalance, you might sell some of that asset class and use that money to buy other types of investments to bring your overall allocation back to an appropriate balance. And think about the tax advantages of rebalancing before or after December 31.

2. Adjust Allocations against Goals.

Make sure your asset allocation is still appropriate for your time horizon and goals. if you’re not meeting your financial targets, you might consider being a bit more aggressive. If you’re getting closer to retirement, it might be time to become more conservative. Check valuations and see if the investments you’ve been coveting are now more affordable.

Diversification and asset allocation don’t guarantee a profit or insure against a

possible loss, of course, but should be reviewed annually.

3. Consider the Tax Consequences of any 2018 Capital Gains or Losses If you have realized capital gains from selling securities at a profit and you have no tax losses carried forward from previous years, you can sell losing positions to avoid being taxed on some or all of those gains. Any losses over and above the amount of your gains can be used to offset up to $3,000 of ordinary income ($1,500 for a married person filing separately) or carried forward to reduce your taxes in future years. Selling losing positions for the tax benefit they will provide next April is a common financial practice known as “harvesting your losses.”

4. Review Your Tax-Advantaged Account Strategy

It’s generally not a good idea to hold tax-free investments in a tax-deferred account (such as a 401(k), IRA, or SEP).

You don’t get additional tax advantages, and you typically get a lower return from

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these types of accounts. Additionally, this turns tax-free income into income that’s taxable at ordinary income tax rates when you withdraw it from the retirement account. Similarly, mutual funds that trade actively, and therefore generate a lot of short-term capital gains, may belong in a tax-advantaged account so that you can defer taxes on those gains. Finally, when deciding where to hold specific investments, keep in mind that distributions from a tax-deferred retirement plan don’t qualify for the lower tax rate on capital gains and dividends.

Formatting your investments and retirement funds in ways that reduce taxes can be complicated. To paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton, any action could have an equal or opposite reaction. That means that seemingly straightforward changes may not achieve the desired tax savings or may end up costing you more at a later day.

Seek the advice of an experienced financial adviser to help you do a complete portfolio review and to help you better understand the benefits or consequences of changes to your portfolio.

And if I haven’t said it yet, have a happy new year!

MARK A. VERGENES is

president of MIRUS Financial Partners. He can be reached at mark@mirusfinancialpartners.com.

MIRUS Financial Partners, nor Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, give tax or legal advice. Opinions expressed are not intended as investment advice and may not be relied on for the purpose of determining your social security benefits, eligibility, or avoiding any federal tax penalties. All information is believed to be from reliable sources; however, we make no representations as to its completeness or accuracy. All economic and performance information is historical and indicative of future results.

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ECEMBER IS NOT ONLY THE TIME FOR HOLIDAYS and winter fun, it’s also a time when you should start prepping your finances for the end of the year. Not only should you track your progress toward financial goals, but you also need to prepare for tax season. Here are some tips that will help you prepare for the new year.

PARKING SPOTLIGHT | LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

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The 2018 IPMI Leadership Summit Educates and Entertains

ENVER, COLO., WAS THE PLACE FOR PARKING AND MOBILITY professionals to be in October, when IPMI’s second Leadership Summit brought together a fantastic group for professional development, networking, and fun.

Small by design, the Leadership Summit saw 100 professionals from all career stages gather together to learn and make important connections during sessions and social events and the opportunity to ask questions and learn during topic-specific Knowledge and Networking Hubs. Keynoter Josh Allison from THINK CAFÉ offered a thought-provoking talk about sustain-

able strategies for leaders to survive and thrive in the workplace. Sessions ranged from mitigating conflict through email, to employee engagement, to maintaining balance, to ethical leadership, with more around every corner.

Summit attendees also enjoyed getting to know each other and making valuable network connections during a variety of events. Team-building lunch

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hours, a game night (complete with giant Jenga), a fun and relaxed welcome reception, and the chance to update their photos with professional headshots were all hits.

Many thanks to this year’s Leadership Summit sponsors: Marlyn Group, T2, ParkMobile, Parkhub, Parksmart, Curbway, TimHaahs, Premium Parking, Southland Printing, Toledo Ticket, and Flowbird.

Ready to experience the Leadership Summit yourself? Save the date: October 3–4, 2019, in Pittsburgh, Pa., for 100 industry professionals. We can’t wait!

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ASK THE

EXPERTS

What in the industry do you think will be different at the end of 2019 than it is now?

Marlene Cramer, CAPP Director, Transportation & Parking Services Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

In 2019 we should expect more challenges and industry disrupters! For example, the newest delivery hot spot is our trunks. Amazon is working with Chevy to deliver packages directly to cars. With these new service and delivery options it is imperative that we stay current with industry trends.

Kathryn Hebert

Director, Transportation, Mobility, and Parking City of Norwalk, Conn.

I see more of an integration between transportation and parking under the umbrella of mobility in an effort to provide mobility options and enhance economic development opportunities in downtown areas.

There will be increased planning centered around managing the curb. And new garages will be constructed for future repurposing as we also transition to autonomous vehicles.

Alejandro Jaramillo

CEO APD de Colombia S.A. I will see fewer ticket dispensers in use and fewer paper tickets.

Everything will be done with communications between the parking garage and your mobile phone.

Victor A. Hill, MPA, CAPP

Director of Parking and Transportation Services University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Parking professionals will continue talking about every facet of mobility and its effects on parking.

As 2019 comes to an end, we’ll all be learning and sharing how we can embrace an allencompassing approach to parking and mobility.

Casey Jones, CAPP Vice President TimHaahs

2019 will be marked by significant new acquisitions and mergers where emerging companies look to align their products and services to address mobility challenges, curb management, and expand and shift customer expectations.

The economic cycle will be on the downswing, which will put further pressure to find new ways to do more with less.

HAVE A QUESTION? Send it to editor@parking-mobility.org and watch this space for answers from the experts.

The opinions and thoughts expressed by the contributors do not necessarily reflect the opinions and viewpoints of the International Parking & Mobility Institute or official policies of IPMI.

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A Year in Sustainable parking and mobility projects from 2018.

By Megan Leinart, LEED AP BD+C

O

nce again, 2018 provided a number of advancements in parking and mobility sustainable projects. We continue to see incredible success and progress in sustainable parking planning, design, construction, operations, and technology. People within and outside the parking and mobility industry have embraced the possibilities of incorporating sustainable concepts and strategies into their parking programs and projects—an idea that once seemed impossible to many. More often, owners and developers are incorporating sustainability efforts and certification requirements into their procurement standards, and many vendors and professional service providers are to using these ideas without even being asked.

This year, we saw numerous examples of successful sustainable parking and mobility projects. Here’s a look back at just a few.

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the Life Stanford Roble Field Parking Garage Stanford, Calif.

SUBMITTED BY: WATRY DESIGN, INC.

As urban campuses grow and thrive, green space becomes an invaluable resource that is often lost to densification. Designing parking with a green roof is one way to have your cake and eat it too. Stanford University has utilized this approach for a number of parking garages on campus, most recently for Roble Field. To preserve this open grass space where students gather, relax, and enjoy recreational sports, the university developed a 1,162-space parking garage ­underneath it.

Not only did the facility preserve the field, it also virtually eliminated the perception of a below-grade parking structure.

To minimize load on the structure, the turf field consists

of 24 inches of engineered lightweight soil. In addition to a green roof, the facility is in the process of attaining Parksmart Silver certification. The five-level, below-grade structure provides 52 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with provisions for an additional 84. It offers active recycling programs, ride-sharing incentives, and a shared parking program. Located near a shuttle stop, the facility adds pedestrian and bicycle linkage and features bicycle parking.

Following the success of this project, Stanford University is pursuing a similar strategy with Manzanita Field, planning an 850-stall parking structure beneath the existing recreational space, featuring basketball and volleyball courts. The Manzanita Parking Structure is also pursuing Parksmart certification.

PHOTO CREDIT: STEVE PROHL

ATKINS

Nashville International Airport Parking and Transportation Center Nashville, Tenn.

SUBMITTED BY: WALKER CONSULTANTS

Due to the tremendous growth in passengers at Nashville International Airport (BNA), the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) is planning BNA Vision, a multiyear expansion program. One of the first projects under the program is the Parking and Transportation Center, which opened in November 2018. The center has 2,200 parking spaces and a ground transportation center on the bottom level for shuttles, buses, taxis, and transportation network companies. As with all projects at the airport, the Nashville Airport Experience (NAE), BNA’s customer service mantra, was the guiding principle during design. One of the primary considerations of NAE is sustainability.

The facility is pursuing Parksmart certification and has included several features that help meet this goal and improve the customer experience such as: ■■ EV charging stations.

■■ Tire inflation station.

■■ Recycling program.

■■ Internal and external automated parking guidance system.

■■ Idle-reduction payment systems.

Additionally, MNAA has included features that help reduce operating costs and meet the airport’s sustainable goals, including: ■■ Rainwater harvesting for irrigation.

■■ Water-efficient landscaping.

■■ Lighting system with daylight and occupancy sensor controls.

■■ Proactive operation maintenance program.

All of these features plus the additional measures taken during construction, such as regional materials and labor as well as a construction waste management program, have been integrated into the project to create a net positive impact both economically and environmentally.

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New Jersey Institute of Technology Parking Garage Newark, N.J. SUBMITTED BY: TIMOTHY HAAHS & ASSOCIATES, INC.

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) recently completed a new 941-space parking structure on its campus in Newark, N.J. The facility is an infill project located on a previous parking lot.

The NJIT parking facility is pursuing Parksmart Bronze certification.

Sustainable elements include: ■■ EV charging stations.

■■ Public green space for use of students, faculty, staff, and the community.

■■ Natural ventilation.

■■ Newark Light Rail one block away.

■■ Extensive sustainable purchasing program that includes paper, furniture, parking tags, and more.

■■ Vehicle-idle reduction systems.

■■ Sustainable maintenance and cleaning procedures.

■■ Energy efficient LED lighting.

■■ Native, water-efficient landscaping around the garage.

■■ Recycling program.

The garage will support the growing parking needs of the campus, serving students, faculty, and staff and accommodating future development plans. The parking structure is designed to support future installation of approximately 14,000 square feet of retail/flex space.

Pittsburgh Gold 1 Garage Pittsburgh, Pa. SUBMITTED BY: WTW ARCHITECTS

Located adjacent to nearby PNC Park (home of the Pittsburgh Pirates), Heinz Field (home of the Pittsburgh Steelers), and other entertainment and dining establishments, Pittsburgh’s Gold 1 Garage is the first garage to achieve Parksmart Gold certification. The design of this new-construction parking facility showcases the City of Pittsburgh’s sustainability goals and provides a convenient point of access to the popular area for daily, weekend, and event patrons.

Owned and operated by the Stadium Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, the six-level, 1,000-space garage reduced energy consumption by specifying the use of regional materials and diverting more than 85 percent of construction waste from landfills. The facility also includes a single-stream recycling program that encourages patrons to recycle cardboard, paper, glass, and aluminum.

The multi-modal facility is located in close proximity to a number of bus stops and light rail stations, encouraging more sustainable transportation options, and 4 percent of the garage spaces are reserved for fuel-efficient, carpool, or HOV ride-share vehicles. The garage also includes two DC fast-charging stations, a commuter shuttle program for local hospital employees, and 100 bike parking spaces along with a bike maintenance station and bike racks.

The garage features living walls made of native, drought-tolerant plants and perennial vines to harvest rainwater and direct it to screens and surrounding plant beds. Further, the owner included an educational program via large electronic LED displays in the lobby, highlighting sustainable features and fun facts about the garage, including the benefits of green wall plantings and the stormwater capture system.

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Obiićev Venac Public Parking Garage Belgrade, Serbia SUBMITTED BY: ENERGO ENERGY EFFICIENCY ENGINEERING

The Obiićev Venac Public Parking Garage is located in the Central Zone of Belgrade, near the city’s downtown pedestrian zone. It is part of the public utility (Parking Servis) garage network, which manages 35,000 parking spaces serving the 2 million residents of Serbia’s capital city.

Due to its location in the city’s historical downtown, the architectural design complements the surrounding ambience, while managing to increase the number of parking spaces. In addition to meeting growing parking demand, goals of the project included extensive energy-efficient practices, minimizing the environmental impact, promoting sustainable transportation, and decreasing costs through efficient management.

Some of the innovative sustainability features include: ■■ Solar panels.

■■ EV charging stations.

■■ LED lighting.

■■ Recycling program.

■■ Natural ventilation of parking decks.

■■ Internal and external wayfinding signage.

■■ Free rental bicycles.

■■ Incentives for drivers of alternative-fuel vehicles.

■■ Renewable source generation plant (PV panels) .

■■ 92 percent of indoor lighting controlled by occupancy sensors.

■■ 98 percent of outdoor lighting controlled by programed timers.

The project also incorporated a number of successful community outreach features and programs, including: ■■ Installing a local meeting point with free Wi-Fi. ■■ Incorporating placemaking zones for exhibitions, educational, and cultural purposes.

■■ Allocating parking spaces for local residents and providing them with subsidized parking.

Originally constructed 40 years ago, the facility’s reconstruction has set a new standard for sustainable parking and transportation. In April 2018, Obilićev Venac achieved Parksmart Bronze certification, becoming the first garage in Europe to be awarded Parksmart certification. The application of Parksmart measures resulted in a 33 percent reduction in operation and maintenance costs.

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Cal Poly Pomona Pomona, Calif.

SUBMITTED BY: CAL POLY POMONA

Cal Poly Pomona’s second parking structure recently earned Parksmart Bronze certification. The 1,800-space parking facility includes a number of sustainable features, including: ■■ Solar panels.

■■ Wi-Fi. ■■ Secure bicycle storage.

■■ Automated, dimmable LED lighting.

■■ 24 EV charging stations.

■■ Ride-share parking.

The facility also serves as a stop for four university shuttles, one of which connects with local transit, allowing students to use alternative transportation to reach the campus.

Michael Biagi, university director of parking and transportation services, says, “It’s the best parking on

campus by far. It provides the quickest shuttle service to the center of campus, and I think it will provide the best parking experience for our students. The sustainable features of this structure really have our students excited about what can be done with sustainable design.” Biagi highlighted the drought-tolerant landscaping and state-of-the-art rainwater collection system as two of the features that demonstrate the university’s commitment to protecting the environment.

The $41 million structure was built on the site of a surface parking lot, and university officials went to great lengths throughout the process to ensure that the construction and operation of the structure was as sustainable as possible. The contractor used locally sourced concrete, recycled asphalt to pave the surface lot, and hired local labor to shorten workers’ commutes.

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Main Street Cupertino Loft Residences Garage Cupertino, Calif.

SUBMITTED BY: NAGLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS

Developed by Sand Hill Property Company, Main Street Cupertino Lofts is part of a newly created, mixed-use neighborhood in the heart of Silicon Valley, known as Main Street Cupertino. Main Street Lofts is the second location in the development. The property includes a two-level, below-grade, 92,000-square-foot parking garage.

The mechanical ventilation system for the Lofts garage is powered by two exhaust fan-motor units with a combined 47.5 horsepower powering respective centrifugal fan units.

Per California code, the garage ventilation system must run 24/7 in a subterranean garage with people residing above it. With no means of control in place and running 24/7, the garage-fan motor units would consume slightly more than 333,200-kilowatt hours (kWh) per year, with a correlating peak kilowatt (kW) demand greater than 38 kW. The facility’s energy solutions provider deployed its

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demand-control ventilation system, including 23 BACnetcommunicating, carbon monoxide (CO) sensors mounted throughout both levels of the garage. The sensors provide instantaneous feedback to the controller, which then relays speed commands to the garage’s exhaust-fan motors, increasing and decreasing motor speeds based on CO concentrations at a given time. This approach, when deployed with the facility’s proprietary and patent-pending control logic, routinely captures kWh and peak kW demand savings in the range of 95 percent— and, in the case of the Main Street Lofts garage, greater.

Since the time of the building commissioning, real-time data logging of kW consumption shows the garage is limiting the motors’ combined kWh consumption to just 9,200 kWh/year, providing a savings of roughly 324,000 kWh a year. Peak kW demand is being reduced by 37 kW/year, all while the property’s large garage ventilation fans run continuously.

MEGAN LEINART, LEED AP BD+C, is president

of Leinart Consulting. She can be reached at megan@leinartconsulting.com.

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he United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Business Certification Institute (GBCI) administer multiple certification standards in addition to LEED standards. One of these standards will be familiar to our readers: Parksmart. The Parksmart program promotes sustainable and high-performing garages and parking garages through certification at multiple levels.

GBCI also administers certification and credentialing for a relatively new certification standard dedicated to promoting buildings that maximize the opportunities for both human health and environmental sustainability: the International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™).

Those familiar with the triple-bottom line of people, planet, and profit, will recognize the importance of human health and wellness in this concept. Our health and wellness intersect with the environments where we spend most of our time. LEED criteria address these concepts in many cases, examining air quality, lighting, comfort, and general environment through multiple strategies to improve our experience in residential, office, and other property types.

Over the course of a 30-year building lifecycle, personnel costs account for more than 90 percent of costs, dwarfing design and construction costs of 2 percent and operations and maintenance costs of 6 percent. No matter what industry, those numbers are telling—and addressing human health and wellness to the benefit of both individuals and organizations makes financial sense, as well as good stewardship of our most important asset—our people.

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By Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C

Fundamentals of the WELL Building Standard

WELL addresses buildings and the features that have impacts to human health and wellness. Given that we spend nearly 90 percent of our time indoors, the impact of the quality of our natural environment as well as the quality of our built environment cannot be understated.

The standard is an “independently verified, performance-based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring features of buildings that impact human health and well-being.” More than 100 features address areas including nutrition, fitness, mood, sleep patterns, productivity and performance. These features may deal with operations and design, of the impact to human behavior. Certification may be achieved at silver, gold, or platinum levels.

More than 100 million square feet have been registered or WELL-certified, including projects in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the UAE, Europe, and Australia.

WELL is flexible across multiple building types and offers pilot programs for multifamily residential, education, retail, restaurant, and more.

The standard addresses seven concepts: air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind.

These concepts provide the top-level structure for the certification program. (For comparison purposes, Parksmart contains four primary categories:

Strategies, linkages, and lessons for the parking, transportation and mobility industry.

Management, Programs, Design and Technology, Innovation). In WELL, these seven concepts include more than features, which may be considered comparable to Parksmart measures. Each feature includes multiple parts that may be reviewed in the certification standard.

LEED or Parksmart

Both programs are initiated with registration through an online platform and applicants provide documentation to substantiate features (or measures).

One key difference is that WELL requires performance verification, which is a series of onsite, post-­ occupancy performance tests to monitor building performance after occupants have moved in. Certification is earned once the project has documented compliance with selected features and passed performance verification. A second key difference at this time is that recertification is required after three years to make sure that the building maintains the desired level of design, maintenance, and operations. This is a critical step to ensure that buildings are functioning as they were designed to and that the desired behaviors of occupants match the planned outcomes, allowing operations to be recalibrated if those results don’t match what is planned.

WELL breaks up certification standards into three primary groupings: ■■ Core and Shell.

■■ New and Existing Interiors.

■■ New and Existing Buildings.

The first two apply to different owner/tenant splits depending on how much of the building remains in the control of the building owner. New and Existing Buildings will be most familiar in the parking, transportation, and mobility industry, addressing the entire scope of design and construction, and some elements of operations.

Point Structure

Preconditions, which are known as prerequisites in LEED, must be achieved and may be considered non-negotiable. Similarities exist to IPMI’s Accredited Parking Organization (APO) program; the accreditation mandates that 25 required criteria are achieved as a baseline. Optimizations, known as measures in Parksmart, are selected and documented from a total of 59 available choices.

New and Existing Buildings must achieve 41 preconditions in the certification system for Silver Certification. The system includes 59 possible optimizations.

Buildings that meet 40 percent of the applicable optimizations earn Gold, and 80 percent earn Platinum.

Pilot programs (including communities and multifamily residential and educational building types) offer similar point structures.

PROJECT TYPES

PRECONDITIONS

OPTIMIZATIONS

TOTAL

New and Existing Buildings

41

59

100

New and Exiting Interiors

36

62

98

Core and Shell

26

28

54

Preconditions in the New and Existing Building category include aspects such as air quality standards, construction pollution management, fundamental water quality, visual lighting design, interior fitness circulation, activity incentive programs, accessible design, post-occupancy surveys, and beauty and design.

Optimizations include air quality monitoring and feedback, water treatment, responsible food production, daylight modeling, exterior active design, physical activity spaces, and adaptable spaces, as well as innovation points.

Fitness

Of the seven concepts in the system, the parking, transportation, and mobility industry may find the features provided in the fitness section most relevant. This concept supports the “integration of physical activity into everyday life by providing opportunities and support for an active lifestyle and discouraging sedentary behaviors.” There are multiple linkages where as an industry we can apply WELL strategies, including: ■■ Interior fitness circulation.

■■ Activity incentive programs.

■■ Exterior active design.

■■ Physical activity spaces.

■■ Active transportation support.

The next section addresses each of these five elements and their potential adaption to our industry and its facilities.

Interior fitness circulation

This precondition addresses stair accessibility and promotion as well as design. One staircase in buildings with two to four floors should be accessible to building occupants and provide wayfinding and visual prompts and should be both clearly visible and within 25 feet of the primary entrance, lobby, or welcome area. Stair width must be 56 inches between handrails and or allowable

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Stairwell exemplifies interior fitness circulation element through its daylighting and biophilic views.

Activity incentive programs

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For this precondition, the project must implement two programs for all full-time employees (FTEs). Although not a comprehensive list, most relevant to our industry are tax-exempt payroll deductions relating to active transportation or mass transit or subsidies towards annual bicycle share membership.

The widespread adoption and promotion of transportation demand management (TDM) policies and programs in the parking and mobility industry relates directly to this feature. Please see page 34 for a detailed summary of TDM in this issue, or download the resource in the IPMI resource center at parkingmobility.org/resource-center.

A bike-share program subsidy is an example of an activity incentive program.

by code. In addition, this addresses aesthetics; two of the following must be included: artwork, music, daylighting, view windows, designated lighting levels, or biophilic elements. (Biophilia, as defined by Wikipedia, is the inherent human inclination to affiliate with nature.)

The design of staircases and related wayfinding is a natural fit for our parking and transportation facilities and may be simply applied to new designs. This concept can and should be extended to potential walking and biking trails to and from parking facilities to the desired destinations.

Exterior active design

This optimization (to reiterate, these optimizations are potential, and not required), addresses pedestrian amenities, pedestrian promotion, and neighborhood connectivity. Pedestrian amenities include benches, clusters of movable furniture for outdoor seating, drinking fountains, or water stations. To promote active pedestrian circulation, elements include water features, plazas or open-air courtyards, gardens and landscaped elements, and public art. Neighborhood connectivity incorporates high Walk

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STEVE WOLFE

Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira South Parking Structure & Green Roof project, designed by TimHaahs, creates an outdoor rooftop experience through elements of plaza and green roof on top of structured parking.

Scores® and additional diverse uses as identified by LEED BD+C within a half-mile.

Some of our members’ facility designs take these concepts to the next level; Park(ing) Day culminates in these expressions on an annual basis. The image on the next page showcases both exterior active design as well as other criteria addressed in this article.

Physical activity spaces

This optimization aims to promote physical activity through designated free indoor exercise space as well as external opportunities for exercise. External spaces must be complimentary and within a half-mile walking distance: ■■ Green spaces/parks with playground features.

■■ Workout station or fitness zone.

■■ Trail network.

■■ Accessible body of water or public swimming pool.

■■ Gym or fitness center.

■■ Recreational fields.

The more recent application of rooftop fields and similar spaces on parking facilities provides a terrific opportunity to place these facilities in close proximity to the building seeking WELL certification.

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Active transportation support

The Centers for Disease Control defines active transportation as “any self-propelled, human-powered mode of transportation, such as walking or bicycling.”

This optimization covers bicycle storage and support, addressing distances to the main entrance as well as bicycle maintenance tools and bicycle storage. Storage must be provided for at least five percent of regular building occupants, in addition to shorter-term storage for 2.5 percent of peak visitors. Post commute/fitness facilities are also addressed in this part, requiring both showers and lockers.

TDM programming, LEED, APO, and Parksmart directly address active transportation support, especially in the form of bicycling facilities and bike-share.

Additional Considerations

One of the core concepts in the standard is Mind. This concept addresses the complex connection between mental health and building design. A building may be designed to support and reinforce a health mental state.

Beauty and design

This required precondition’s intent is “to thoughtfully create unique and culturally-rich spaces.” More

qualitative than quantitative in its approach, the project must contain features that promote human delight; celebration of culture, spirit, and place; and integration of public art.

Biophilia

Design in our buildings can use or mimic natural elements. This optimization addresses how to incorporate nature through the development of a biophilia plan (environmental elements, lighting, and space layout), the incorporation of natural patterns, and opportunities for interactions between people and nature both indoors and outdoors. An addition optimization addresses this concept further in the areas of outdoor biophilia (landscaped areas or accessible rooftop gardens) indoor biophilia (wall and potted plantings in interior spaces), and multiple water features.

Altruism Celebfration of Park(ing) Day 2013 in Lexington, Ky.

This optimization covers charitable activities through the provision of paid time on or off the clock for volunteer opportunities, as well as financial contributions. Our community is well-versed in the benefits of

connection to charitable causes for both employees and patrons; The Parking Professional has featured the generous Donations for Citations and related programming showcased by our IPMI members; see p. 27 in the November 2017 issue for more.

Innovation

The innovation concept allows for greater creativity and expansion of the WELL standard into the future.

Both LEED and Parksmart offer innovation points to address aspects not covered in the current version of the standards. Innovation proposals may extend beyond the current requirements or thresholds, or contain a new concept.

Takeways and Next Steps

This overview of the WELL standard merely touches the concepts of human health and wellness, our built environment, and relevance to the parking, transportation, and mobility industry. However, there are two key takeaways that we as an industry can utilize as a starting point.

1. Our human health is inextricably linked to our physical environment. As parking, transportation, and mobility professionals, we have the ability—and the opportunity—to make a massive impact on the health and wellness of our communities through our planning, design, operations, and programming.

2. The IPMI Accredited Parking Organization program, TDM, LEED, Parksmart, and WELL all pursue similar, related, and intertwined outcomes. High-performing buildings are sustainable.

High-performing operations are profitable. Healthy, productive, and high-performing people are both.

We should as an industry continue to explore these concepts and magnify these programs’ collective impacts together—to maximize our positive and profound impact on our individual communities.

To find out more about WELL, visit wellcertified.com.

PHOTO COURTESY LEXINGTON, KY

To jump in the fray and explore what these concepts mean for us in the future, contact me. I can’t wait to hear your feedback.

RACHEL YOKA, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C,

is IPMI’s vice president for program development. She can be reached at yoka@parking-mobility.org.

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AT A G L A N C E : Fundamentals of Transportation Demand Management Transportation Demand Management (TDM) can be defined as: Programs, policies, and services that help the traveling public make use of alternatives to driving in single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) and reducing traffic demand.

The Federal Highway Administration defines TDM as “a set of strategies aimed at reducing the demand for roadway travel, particularly in single-occupancy vehicles. These strategies address a wide range of externalities associated with driving, including congestion, poor air quality, less livable communities, reduced public health, dependence on oil, reduced environmental health, and climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Some TDM strategies are designed to reduce total travel demand, while others are designed to reduce peak period demand, which may disproportionately contribute to these externalities.�1

DemandBased & Other Pricing Policies

Public Transit & Paratransit

Remote & Flexible Work Arrangements

Biking, Bike-Share, & Scooters

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TDM typically includes the following elements: n

Data collection and benchmarking, including mode split and SOV trips for effective decision-making.

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Public transit, intermodal connections, shuttles, and other alternative methods of transportation.

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Incentives to use transit, carpooling, and other alternative commuting methods.

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Disincentives to driving alone.

A T A G L A N C E : FUNDAMENTALS OF TDM Ten Commonly Applied Programs and Policies 1. Data Collection & Benchmarking. Data from surveys, traffic counts, parking utilization, transit ridership, and other programs help determine mode split and program performance.

2. Ride-sharing/Carpool/Vanpool. Carpools have at least a driver and a rider who share a ride. Carpools may be formed by family members, neighbors, co-workers, through app-based programs, or even ad-hoc “slug” lines. Vanpools make use of a five- to 15-passenger vehicle leased through a third party or provided by an employer that uses a volunteer driver(s); riders may pay a monthly fee, while sharing the costs for gas, tolls and/or parking.

or carpooling, or otherwise do not drive to work, i.e. work remotely.

5. Ride-share. Web- or app-based software that helps form carpools. Examples include Scoop, RideAmigos, and Zimride.

6. Pass/Subsidies. Provides reduced-price or free transit passes to employees. Passes can be provided tax-free and/or employees can use pre-tax salary to cover any remaining costs.

7. Provisions for Active Transportation. Walking, bike parking, valet, card access, storage, and provisions of changing rooms/showers and lockers.

3. Car-share. Micro car rental by the hour usually provided through third parties such as Zipcar, Car2Go, and Maven that use an app or smartcard to access the car. Rentals usually include gas and insurance and do not require interfacing with a rental office. This program supports those who use non-drive-alone modes.

8. Guaranteed Ride Home. Providing non-drive-alone commuters with a taxi or TNC (Uber/Lyft) ride home or a car rental at no cost to the commuter. This is typically used for unexpected situations such as illness, child care, home damage, etc., and not for overtime or offsite work trips.

4. Parking Cash Out/Payment in-lieu of Parking.

Allows employers to provide a salary increase for the cost of parking instead of providing parking for free.

Employees can then use that salary increase for parking, transit, or vanpools tax-free or keep it as a taxable increase if they commute by biking, walking,

9. Ecopass/Occasional Parking. Providing roughly 20 days of parking per year for bad weather days, visitors, special events, etc. This applies to commuters using a mode other than driving alone (transit, carpool, bike, or walk).

10. Remote Parking. Providing shuttle or transit from outside core parking area.

Parking, Mobility, and TDM Parking has a fundamental effect on what happens in cities and towns and how the greater transportation and mobility system functions. Designing and implementing an effective, professionally-managed parking strategy can mean the difference between frustrating and costly traffic congestion and efficient, time-saving traffic flow that is characteristic of smart cities. TDM policies affect parking resources directly and indirectly; appropriately priced on- and off-street parking can work in tandem with other TDM strategies to create desired incentives and outcomes, including but not limited to: n Managing parking demand and meeting parking limitation regulations. n Providing additional programs and services to users and customers. n Documenting Parksmart certification and Accredited Parking Organization (APO) accreditation requirements. n Contributing to a building’s LEED certification. n Reinforcing and expanding an organization’s sustainability efforts. n Growing the customer base to include those who do not drive or those who ride-share.

Featured Resources for Additional Research • A Guide to Parking, International Parking Institute, 2018; reference chapter on TDM • IPI Online Course: Transportation Demand Management: Parking Strategies • Sustainable Parking Design & Management: A Practitioner’s Handbook; reference chapter on TDM • Victoria Transportation Policy Institute • Online TDM Encyclopedia • Mobility Lab • Parksmart Certification Manual, Green Business Certification Institute • Integrating Demand Management into the Transportation Planning Process: A Desk Reference, Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Association

For more information, search keyword “TDM” in IPMI’s online Resource Center at parking-mobility.org.

Sustainable Parking Garages

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he Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently issued a report on the startling extent of worldwide climate change.1 It presents serious challenges, but also opportunities for innovation. Construction activities contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, and building industry professionals are positioned to help mitigate the causes of climate change. Manufactured wood products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glued-laminated lumber (glulam) can be used effectively to render parking garage construction more sustainable.

Typical parking garages are built of steel and reinforced concrete, leading to high embodied carbon profiles. Manufacturing and transporting reinforced concrete and steel members produces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

In contrast to steel and reinforced concrete, engineered lumber building materials sequester carbon, and their fabrication and transport produce a significantly lower magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon emissions offset by using sawn lumber and manufactured wood products in a

single building project could counter the effects of hundreds of cars from the road or power a home for hundreds of years.2 Engineered wood such as CLT and glulam rival typical building materials for strength while removing carbon from the atmosphere and reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the construction process. Their engineering properties are appropriate for parking structures with spans and ceiling heights, competitive with typical concrete or hybrid concrete-steel parking deck systems.

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Engineered wood takes center stage in this structure, softening the look and performing vital functions at the same time.

The Carbon Footprint

Concrete is the product of cement mixed with water, sand, gravel, and other admixtures. Cement is manufactured and is the primary contributor to the embodied carbon of concrete. The cement production industry contributes to 5 percent of global CO2 emissions.

Burning fossil fuels accounts for 40 percent of CO2 emissions from cement production when numerous natural materials are heated in a kiln at approximately 2700 degrees.3 A chemical process results during which the cement ingredient calcium carbonate undergoes calcination, generating CO2 and accounting for 50 to 60 percent of CO2 emitted from cement production. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Portland Cement Association have found that approximately one ton of CO2 is emitted in the production of each ton of Portland cement4. Consideration should also be given to the embodied carbon of the mining and shipping of raw materials, concrete placement, and transportation of precast members—all processes that currently require the burning of fossil fuels.

Steel, for its part, is a highly recycled material. Like concrete, however, steel manufacture produces considerable greenhouse gas emissions. According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, 69 percent of steel in North America is recycled annually, and 95 percent of the water required for steel production is recycled5.

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Nonetheless, steel requires extreme heat for production; blast furnace emissions prevail as the main source of greenhouse gas emissions of steel production worldwide.6 Like concrete, the steel industry contributes about 5 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly two tons of CO2 are emitted in the production of a single ton of steel. A primary component of steel is the production of iron, which accounts for 90 percent of the steel industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.7 As with concrete, consideration should be given to the embodied carbon of the mining of iron ore necessary for steel production and of the transportation energy (emissions from fossil fuel burning) inherent in shipping steel to fabricators and construction sites.

Alternative Garage Construction

Parking garages benefit from diverse structural systems but largely experience a lack of variety in building materials. However they are popularly constructed, garages are normally reinforced concrete or steel, endowing them with an unfortunate carbon footprint and high embodied energy profile. As engineers, architects, constructors, developers, and governments imagine ways to transform the built environment to mitigate climate change, they should consider alternative materials and building methods for parking garages.

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Engineered wood such as CLT and glulam presents the opportunity to greatly diminish a parking structure’s embodied carbon emissions. The spans achieved with CLT and glulam beam floor-framing systems are competitive with typical hybrid steel and prestressed concrete garage systems. These wood products by their nature sequester carbon, and their wood is sourced from sustainable forestry. These characteristics can offset or negate the carbon footprint of wood-built garages, and constructing garages from wood could serve as part of a CO2 removal effort to mitigate climate change.

Wood sequesters carbon as it grows—trees absorb CO2 and release oxygen. Younger trees more aggressively store CO2, and the rate of storage decreases as trees age, culminating in the release of stored CO2 when mature trees die and decay. In the U.S., forests annually add new wood from young trees at twice the rate as the loss of wood from trees dying naturally.

This results in a net carbon storage versus release.

The IPCC has indicated that sustainable management of forest populations that increases new stocks while producing a yield of timber for building, energy, etc., can markedly mitigate the effects of climate change. A good use for this timber yield is construction materials.

Because 50 percent of the dry weight of wood consists

of carbon, building with wood stores carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

Wood stores enough carbon to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of its production, transport, and installation. Manufacturing wood products takes significantly less energy than steel and concrete, and little of this energy derives from combustion of fossil fuels.8 As standardized, manufactured products, engineered lumber members such as CLT decks and glulam beams offer the benefits of economical installation and connection detailing.

Using Wood in Construction

CLT floor decks and glulam beams are essentially modular. Like precast concrete members, they are fabricated according to specific project geometry and delivered to the job site ready for installation. They can be hoisted via crane into place in a single piece. This decreases field labor time and materials and provides for efficient construction scheduling.

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must adhere to code-prescribed geometrical constraints, such as notch depth, bearing length, bolt spacing, and fastener edge distances, but these limitations do not preclude adequate yet elegant connections.10

Case Study: Springfield, Ore.

Figure 2: Total Load vs. Span for Glulam Beams

connections. The fabricator can include a slit down the length of CLT panels for installation of connector plates and brackets in the field, where the pieces are assembled without the need for laborious sawing or grinding.9 Glulam beams offer a similar benefit. Slits and setbacks in the cross-sections of member ends can accommodate concealed plate connections, and precored holes can provide for sunken bolts. The engineer

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The city of Springfield, Ore., retained architecture firm SRG Partnership, Inc. to design a CLT parking structure. Its design contains 360 parking spots, occupied interior space on the ground level, and solar panel canopies on the roof. The 200,000-plus square-foot structure consists of five-layer CLT floor decks spanning between post-tensioned glulam beams supported on glulam columns. A curtain wall consisting of a stainless steel wire fabric protects the glulam columns at the perimeter from damage from wind-driven rain. The screens are strategically placed in response to research that identified the direction and magnitude of rain events at the site. The lateral system is a post-tensioned seven-layer CLT shear wall with performance capacity verified by a seismic shake-table test at the University of California at San Diego, and a sprinkler system provides fire-proofing.

Typical structural bays are 30 feet wide by 60 feet

long with 10-foot-wide by 30-foot-long CLT panels spanning between glulam beams spaced at 15 feet on center. This provides CLT panels with intermediate midspan support. Designers incorporated laminated veneer lumber (LVL) for the top and bottom layers of the glulam beams and a post-tensioning system to improve their structural strength and minimize beam depth. This configuration allows for 60-foot beam spans to maximize garage space. The construction schedule is expected to be shorter, and less shoring is expected to be required for the CLT-glulam system than for steel or concrete systems.

Although building officials were appropriately concerned whether a wood parking garage would satisfy code requirements, they were cooperative from the start of the design process. The novelty presented a challenge to building officials tasked with permitting new structural systems requiring testing and review, and a fire marshal was concerned about combustible cars within a wooden superstructure.

Officials required the building to incorporate a sprinkler system for fire protection and continued to work closely with the design team to address other related concerns.

In garages with concrete decks, inadequate weatherproofing can lead to damage from deicing salts, water intrusion from tires and leaking drains, and freezethaw cycles. Engineered wood could rot from excessive moisture exposure, leading to section loss from water damage or insect infestations. Research performed at the TallWood Design Institute in Oregon recommended an asphalt topping over a moisture barrier to weatherproof the CLT panels. Of course, adding asphalt detracts from the sustainability profile of the structure and increase its carbon footprint. As of this writing, the authors are not aware of competitive weatherproofing methods of CLT or glulam materials that avoid supplementary toppings such as concrete or asphalt.

Structural Capacity

In 2018, APA-The Engineered Wood Association published “Standard for Performance-Rated Cross-Laminated Timber.” The guide, known as PRG 320, describes the structural load-path characteristics of CLT and defines mechanical and geometrical properties for use in design. A few definitions: ■■ Layup is an arrangement of layers in the CLT panel according to wood grade, number of layers, orienta-

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What are the Challenges/Opportunities of a CLT Parking Garage?

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tion (parallel and perpendicular to span direction), and thickness per layer.

■■ Grade of lumber refers to the kind of wood and whether the material is visually graded or machine stress-rated (mechanically graded).

The performance criteria presented in PRG 320 were used to determine superimposed (live load) loading capacity of seven different CLT layups and three total panel thicknesses per layup for a total of 21 different CLT panel members. The layups are denoted E1, E2, E3, E4, V1, V2, and V3. The E-series layups contain mechanically graded layers parallel to the span direction and visually graded layers perpendicular to the span direction.

The V-series layups contain visually graded layers in each direction. These grades and layups define the current industry standard, and they are found in available CLT panel products from manufacturers such as Nordic Structures (the Nordic X-Lam is E1 layup) and SmartLam (SL-V4 is V4 layup). Figure 1 shows superimposed loading capacity versus span length for the 21 CLT members. Depending on the member properties and span length, either moment, shear, or deflection will control, and this is reflected in the figure. Maximum deflection under combined dead and live load was taken as L/240.

Like CLT, glulam is composed of layers of mechanically or visually graded wood adhered into a single monolithic member, except the layers are all oriented parallel to the span. Manufacturers generally have freedom to design glulam beam sections using combinations of wood layers—for example, the glulam beams in the SRG wood parking structure where LVL strips form the top and bottom cords, with sawn lumber in between.

wood layers and on the geometry of the section profile. Figure 2 shows total allowable loading capacity versus span length for visually graded southern pine glulam beams of different widths and all 35¾ inches deep. The figure shows controlling values for moment, shear, or deflection. Maximum deflection under combined dead and live load was taken as L/240.

Glulam beams spanning 60 feet are spaced at 12 feet on center, with simply supported 6⅞ inch-deep CLT decks spanning between them. Including the weight of the CLT, glulam beam, miscellaneous dead load, and garage live load of 40psf, and using the heaviest glulam beam evaluated in this article—the 14-inch-wide by 35¾-inch-deep size—the beam is overloaded by 63 pounds per linear foot (lb/ft). Refining the actual clear span based on the width of supporting members may provide a span length reduction to 58 ft, resulting in a beam that works with 43 lb/ft additional capacity beyond the loading demand. Alternatively, the glulam beam could be designed to have stronger top and bottom cord engineered lumber with sawn lumber in the middle, or the beam could be post-tensioned. Although it appears some design intervention is needed to provide the glulam beam with additional capacity, this scenario shows the feasibility of the engineered lumber system.

Spacing 60 feet glulam beams at 10 feet allows use of the 4⅛-inch-deep CLT panels, thereby relieving the system of dead load. The beam is again evaluated under self weight, CLT weight, a miscellaneous dead load, and garage live load. The 12-inch-wide beam works with 56 lb/ft additional capacity, and the 14-inch-wide beam works with 170 lb/ft additional capacity.

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Spacing the glulam beams two feet closer together prevents the need for external post-tensioning.

Wood and Parking Structures

Sourced appropriately, wooden building materials can contribute to the storage (and removal from the atmosphere) of greenhouse gas emissions. The net embodied carbon of wood structures— from collection of raw building material through construction and over the service life of the materials—is negative.

This is also a function of the lower energy necessary to refine, transport, and install manufactured wood.

The IPCC report suggests that revolutionizing global energy production alone is not sufficient to limit or reverse the effects of climate change. Rather, in concert with such efforts, CO2 removal methods must be implemented. Construction on a wide scale with engineered lumber such as CLT and glulam can simultaneously deliver demanded building projects while sequestering carbon. Expansion of forest growth, sustainable harvesting of wood for building, and large-scale woodsourced urban development can become a ­powerful—and practical—tool in the mitigation of climate change.

As engineered lumber manufacturers establish fabrication facilities, design professionals would be wise to prepare for the emergence of these new building materials. As demonstrated above, engineered wood can be adapted for parking garages. Carbon dioxide removal, low greenhouse gas emissions, greater construction efficiency, shorter installation time, and material flexibility are all benefits of engineered wood like CLT and glulam.

Design professionals can anticipate the coming market demand now by performing feasibility studies, forming working groups within firms, and communicating with trusted vendors across

the building industry.

When an owner is contemplating a vertical or horizontal addition to a parking facility or a new parking structure, discuss designing it in wood.

JONATHAN C. ELLOWITZ, PE

is restoration project engineer I with Walker Consultants and a Parksmart Advisor. He can be reached at jellowitz@ walkerconsultants.com.

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PAUL WESSEL is director,

market development, with the USGBC. He can be reached at pwessel@usgbc.org.

Endnotes 1. IPCC Report October 8, 2018.

2. Think Wood, “Evaluation the Carbon Footprint of Wood Buildings: Reducing Greenhouse Gases with High-Performance Structures,” AWC.org.

3. Rubenstein, Emissions from the Cement Industry, May 9, 2012: https://blogs.ei.columbia. edu/2012/05/09/emissions-from-the-cementindustry.

4. National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA): www.nrmca.org/greenconcrete/ concrete percent20co2 percent20fact percent20sheet percent20june percent202008.pdf.

5. American Iron and Steel Institute: www. steel.org/~/media/Files/AISI/Fact percent20Sheets/50_Fun_Facts_About_Steel.pdf.

6. Carbon Trust: www.carbontrust.com/ media/38362/ctc791-international-carbon-flowssteel.pdf.

7. Kundak, Lazic, and Crnko, CO2 Emissions in the Steel Industry, Metalurgija 48 (2009) 3, 193-197: webcache.googleusercontent.com/ search?q=cache:bg8XqACJNkAJ:https://hrcak. srce.hr/file/56088+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.

8. Think Wood, “Evaluation the Carbon Footprint of Wood Buildings: Reducing Greenhouse Gases with High-Performance Structures,” AWC.org.

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9. Mohammad, M., “Connections in CLT Assemblies,” FPInnovations, September 8–9, 2011; www.woodstructuressymposium.com/ wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mohammad_CLT_ Connections.pdf.

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Greening the How certification programs LEED and Parksmart are extending sustainability.

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By Trevyr Meade, LEED GA

ustainability requires designers, property managers, and consultants to find opportunities that go beyond a single building and can deliver triple-bottom-line benefits across people, profit, and planet. Owners are taking a focused look at each asset on their properties to identify new ways to not only reduce their environmental effects, but also increase financial savings and efficiencies.

For nearly 20 years, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the green building program created by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), has been an international symbol of excellence when it comes to the sustainable design, operation, and management of buildings. With more than 94,000 registered and certified projects in 167 countries and territories, it has become the world’s most widely used green building program. LEED’s comprehensive and holistic approach has helped define green building, and its success has inspired other certifications, such as Parksmart, that support the greening of the built environment.

Green Parking

Parksmart is the solution for property owners looking to align their parking structures with sustainability goals. Through certification, parking structures are recognized for smarter, more sustainable siting, design, and operations. As new technologies and modes of transportation continue to change the way people travel, Parksmart is an opportunity for property owners and parking managers to update the services parking garages offer.

Today, there are more than 100 registered or certified Parksmart garages. As owners continue to reimagine the services these structures offer communities, examples of innovative approaches can be found in the U.S., China, Europe, and Canada.

Parksmart benefits building owners and property managers as well as tenants and drivers. Parking structures can achieve reduced environmental impact, increased energy efficiency, and lowered energy use

through lighting, ventilation, controls, and commissioning measures. In addition, such structures succeed at integrating sustainable mobility services and technologies, diversifying mobility options, promoting alternative modes of transportation, and reducing operational costs up to 25 percent compared to the national average.

Synergies between LEED and Parksmart

Green building remains a priority for owners and managers and continues to deliver financial and environmental benefits for buildings. Its continued growth has created an opportunity to align green business certification programs, including LEED and Parksmart.

Synergies between the two programs are now helping design teams incorporate parking strategies into green building projects from the beginning.

Projects pursuing LEED certification for new construction or existing buildings under LEED v2009 and LEED v4 can automatically earn credit toward Parksmart certification. Not only is a property’s LEED certification also recognized by Parksmart, but specific LEED credits that focus on commissioning, construction, building life cycle, and renewable energy are as well. The parking experience is often the first and last experience a visitor has with a LEED building, and these Parksmart synergies now put LEED projects on the path to another certification that demonstrates how their green building work extends beyond the building. Parksmart’s “Parksmart and LEED Synergies” guidance outlines the credit synergies and is available online at no charge at parksmart.gbci.org.

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Third-party certification programs affirm the integrity of a garage’s sustainability commitments by ensuring project teams are delivering on design plans and goals, not cutting corners. It signals to occupants and the local community that a garage meets certain standards.

Earning Both Certifications

An office tower atop a parking structure or a retail mall containing structured parking can earn both LEED and Parksmart certifications, showing how sustainable principles can be applied beyond the building itself.

Some of the strategies Parksmart encourages include: ■■ Parksmart traffic flow strategies and wayfinding systems deliver a parking experience that eliminates the needless emissions and frustration created when visitors have difficulty finding a parking space or navigating to the garage exit.

■■ Parksmart bicycle amenities, such as lockers, drinking water, and mechanic stations, go beyond providing bicycle parking to welcoming cyclists who visit your property.

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important for garages? Third-party certification programs affirm the integrity of a garage’s sustainability commitments by ensuring project teams are delivering on design plans and goals, not cutting corners. It signals to occupants and the local community that a garage meets certain standards.

Likewise, LEED-certified buildings save money and energy, reduce water consumption, improve indoor air quality, facilitate better product and material choices, and drive innovation. LEED-certified buildings have 34 percent lower CO2 emissions, consume 25 percent less energy and 11 percent less water, and have diverted more than 80 million tons of waste from landfills. From 2015 to 2018, it is estimated that LEED-­ certified buildings in the U.S. alone will have more than $2.1 billion in combined energy, water, maintenance, and waste savings.

“LEED and Parksmart are two sides of the same coin, and doing both together generates even greater return on our investment,” explains John Schmid, CEO of Propark America. “Focusing on, for example, a commercial building as a building as well as a multi-modal transportation hub with impact beyond the building is like compound interest. Our impact ripples out through the building community and the transportation community. What’s better than that?”

A LEED or Parksmart plaque on a building or garage signals leadership, letting everyone know that the building has an integrated design that will be energyand water-efficient, while reducing overall environmental impact and increasing occupant health and comfort.

Value of Multiple Certifications

As companies continue to work to validate sustainability performance and communicate progress, more and more projects are finding value in multiple certifications.

A Hines LEED Platinum property certified under Core and Shell, 811 Main (formerly BG Group Place) is recertifying under LEED O+M. The Houston, Texas, property is wrapped in a glass facade, hosts a vegetative roof, employs efficient lighting and ventilation technologies, has a condensate recovery system to reduce the property’s resource consumption, and provides commuters with local and sustainable transportation options.

“811 Main was developed adjacent to a new public transportation feature—the Metro Light Rail—with sustainability in mind,” says Winpark’s Nichole Kenley.

“The parking garage’s green roof, condensate recovery system, and its lighting controls are key to both the LEED and Parksmart certifications, so it’s wonderful to hear that the overlap is now recognized.” Both LEED and Parksmart certifications contributed to the BOMA International Outstanding Building of the Year TOBY Award.

Brookfield’s Bank of America Plaza drew from its LEED certification to achieve Parksmart recognition early on. The 2,128-space garage serves a 55-story office tower in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., and is a hub for the surrounding community. Sustainability measures implemented at the garage that helped achieve both certifications include energy-efficient lighting and ventilation systems, green cleaning practices, low-­emitting vehicle spaces, bicycle parking amenities, electric-­vehicle

charging stations, and access to sustainable transportation options.

“The Parksmart certification validated all the work and policies we implemented in the garage when the building first achieved LEED status in 2009–2010,” explains Mario Izaguirre, ABM parking facility manager at Bank of America Plaza. “Knowing that the garage holds its own certification makes us all even more proud to be here, and the dual certification helps our marketing efforts and leasing discussions with prospective clients, too.”

Parksmart benefits everyone from building owners and property managers to tenants, visitors, and neighbors. Certified parking structures reduce environmental impact, improve energy efficiency, and reduce energy consumption. Parksmart structures integrate sustainable mobility services and technologies, diversify mobility options, promote alternative modes of transportation, and reduce operational costs up to 25 percent compared to the national average.

TREVYR MEADE, LEED GA, is certification

program lead with the U.S. Green Building Council and a member of IPMI’s Research Committee.

He can be reached at tmeade@gbci.org.

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Honoring an

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Urbanist O

The work of Jane Jacobs and what it means to parking.

By L. Dennis Burns, CAPP

n a recent project trip to Boise, Idaho, I was invited to wait in the conference room of our client, the Capital City Development Corporation, or CCDC, until other meeting attendees arrived. I had been in this conference room in the past, but it was a little different this time.

The agency had renamed the conference room the Jane Jacobs Room to honor the noted urbanist and activist who offered a new vision for diverse and vibrant urban redevelopment that prioritized people over automobiles. A small card was on a table in the waiting room outside that listed 10 of Jacobs’ principles the CCDC, Boise’s urban redevelopment agency, has embraced in its daily work: 1. Eyes on the street.

2. Social capital.

3. The generators of diversity.

4. Form still follows function.

5. Local economies.

6. Innovation.

7. Make many little plans.

8. Gradual money.

9. Cities as organized complexity.

10. Citizen science.

I have run across many urban planners during my career whose critical thinking, innovative approaches, and practical applications changed the way I think about urban environments. This includes such names as Jan Gehl (Life Between Buildings), Daniel Hudson Burnham (Chicago architect and planner), Kevin Andrew Lynch (The Image of the City), and contemporary planners such as John Fregonese from Portland, Ore., with whom I had the pleasure of working on a project in Dallas, Texas.

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A Little More About Jacobs

The card outside the conference room inspired me to learn more about Jane Jacobs. In her 1961 book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” she critiqued 1950s urban planning policies, which she believed were responsible for the decline of many city neighborhoods in the U.S. Going against the modernist planning dogma of the era, Jacobs proposed a newfound appreciation for organic urban vibrancy in the United States.

Jacobs argued that modernist urban planning negatively affected cities because it rejected the value of human beings living in a community characterized by layered complexity and seeming chaos. The modernist planners preferred to use deductive reasoning to develop principles by which to plan cities. Among these policies, she considered urban renewal the most dangerous and prevalent of the era. These policies, she claimed, destroy communities and innovative economies by creating isolated, unnatural, urban spaces.

In their place Jacobs advocated for what she called “four generators of diversity” that create effective economic pools of use and emphasized the importance of place. Her four generators of diversity were: ■■ Mixed primary uses, activating streets at different times of the day.

■■ Short blocks, allowing high pedestrian permeability.

■■ Buildings of various ages and states of repair.

■■ Density.

She sought to better understand and develop concepts for the role of cities in the economy. She felt the importance of a sense of place and multi-dimensional diversity in urban policy and design allows us to see the multiplicity of economies and working cultures, in which regional, national, and global economies are embedded.

Parking and Mobility

In reviewing the 10 urban planning principles noted above, I was struck by how closely they resembled many of the planning principles I have adopted from multiple sources over the years: ■■ Eyes on the Street: Pedestrian traffic throughout the day, and the watchful eyes that come with it, en-

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hance the safety of city streets.

In my work with the International Downtown Association, I got to know and appreciate business improvement districts and downtown development authorities that run downtown clean-and-safe programs as a primary strategy for urban area revitalization. The eyes-on-the-street principle has become well accepted and has, in fact, become a central tenet of the policies endorsed by the philosophy of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED).

■■ Social Capital: The idea that every day activities

and interactions that occur in an area create a network of relationships between neighbors and generate social capital is central to Jacobs’ philosophy. As I have seen the parking profession grow and mature, I see parking professionals becoming more actively engaged in their communities and in the process of building foundations of mutual trust, shared efforts, and resilience in times of trouble. Examples include parking professionals who serve on multiple community boards or other civic institutions and offer programs such as food for fines (pay parking fines with food donations), forget the fines (pay parking fines with homeless center donations), etc. I think Jacobs would have endorsed activities and programs such as these.

■■ The Generators of Diversity: Four factors in city planning and design help make the city diverse, safe, social, convenient, and economically vibrant.

These are mixed uses, aged buildings, small blocks, and population density. Certainly, modern parking garage design has embraced mixed-use facilities and enhanced architecture, and there are several that have embraced historic preservation by integrating old building facades into new garage designs. Emerging trends such as automated and adaptive reuse garages are useful concepts for supporting denser urban environments in the future.

■■ Form Still Follows Function: Fashions and technologies come and go, but what always remains relevant are the countless ways that people use the city, how the city works as a whole, and whether our urban design and planning reflect and serve those

functions. Adapting to changing environments and technologies is at the heart of modern parking management. Adopting new curb-lane management strategies to support ride hailing and other shared mobility innovations is a good example.

■■ Local Economies: Economic growth, whether local, national, or global, relies on the ability of urban economies to provide amply and diversely for themselves, rather than relying on imports. A key focus of my work the past decade has involved advancing the concept of parking as a tool for community and economic development. One component of this is leveraging parking infrastructure development to achieve a variety of other community benefits, such as green roofs, public art, integrated residential development, street-level retail, and community gathering places. Customer-friendly parking management is essential to supporting a diverse set of business enterprises, especially in dense urban environments.

■■ Innovation and Creativity: The greater the diversity of existing work in a local economy, the more opportunities to add new work and recombine old work in new ways. Parking structures can reflect community personality as well as cultural and social diversity. One of my favorite examples of this is the city of Eugene, Ore.’s, Step into Poetry program, along with its colorful garage murals, art-wrapped multi-space meters, and other public art projects.

■■ Make Many Little Plans: The diversity of a good neighborhood can only be achieved when we allow many different people to pursue their own little plans, individually and collectively. My first reaction to this principle was to contrast it with Daniel Burnham’s famous quote: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.” After I let this contrast marinate a little, I realized that while these two statements seem to be at odds with each other, they are actually quite complementary. Both are needed to advance and sustain urban environments and their essential vitality and functionality.

■■ Gradual Money: Both diverse little plans and new kinds of work require diverse little sources of money available on an ongoing basis. Unfortunately, both public and private sources often only provide money floods and money droughts instead. I have been impressed in recent years to see local parking programs stepping up to be funding sources

or partners to support projects that benefit their communities’ larger strategic goals. Examples include parking programs being financial supporters of downtown master plan projects or community bike-share programs.

■■ Cities as Organized Complexity: Cities function like ecosystems. Everything is connected to everything else in intricate, particular ways that cannot be captured well by statistics or formulas. Only close observation and reasoning from the bottom up will do. My work in cities has always held a fascination with the marvelous and often unexpected ways that dense, multicultural environments express themselves in urban settings. The rich and creative cultural stew created by so many diverse groups and activities can truly be magical (and even a little gritty at times). This authenticity is powerful and palpable, especially when contrasted to newer lifestyle centers that try to emulate urban cities but often come off feeling staged or contrived.

■■ Citizen Science: The people best equipped to understand urban complexity are ordinary interested citizens. Without the assumptions that often come with professional training, everyday users of the city can learn more freely from what they see and experience firsthand. I have spent my fair share of time attending or presenting to city council meetings and other community forums. Reinforcing this principle, I have often been impressed with the insights brought by the engaged citizens who attend these meetings. Their insights are grounded in their firsthand knowledge and experience of their communities. Merging these local insights into larger planning concepts through engaged community outreach always improves community planning in my opinion.

In Summary

While many of these concepts have become bedrock planning principles, it is often the simplest ideas that have the biggest effects. I am happy that many, if not all, of these principles are being integrated in day-to-day parking management programs across the country!

L. DENNIS BURNS, CAPP, is regional vice

president and senior practice builder with Kimley-Horn. He can be reached at dennis. burns@kimley-horn.com.

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I BET YOU HAVE DONE THIS, TOO

By Debbie Hoffmann, MS, CAPP

For years, my boss has reminded us we don’t always have to create a better solution. We can just steal it— I mean borrow it—from our peers and bend or shape it to best fit our situation or application. I bet many of you have done this and chances are you may not have been working at the time.

Have you ever taken photos of interesting parking or mobility-related infrastructure, signage, or any other cool transportation solutions you have seen while traveling for work or on vacation? I know I have.

My friends and family make fun of me and roll their eyes each time something parking related catches my attention. Lucky for me, they tolerate my actions and are patient and understanding enough to wait for me at the end of the block so I can catch up! I have found they are even my champions on occasion and send me cool transportation-related photos from their own travels. Now, that’s a great support network!

Recently, an associate vice president at our university not only admitted she does this, too but also proudly sent evidence from one of her last great finds. While on a trip to Ireland, she happened upon “Older Persons Parking” and snapped a photo to share with us. No joke! Although this may not be a solution we work to implement anytime soon, it does reinforce the longtime worry that parking should be on the highly infectious disease list—people just catch the bug!

So, fellow parking industry specialists, be proud and keep those cameras flashing. Then, take it one step further and mold that idea that caught your attention into the next best thing within your own organization.

DEBBIE HOFFMANN, MS, CAPP, is director of transportation services at Texas A&M University.

PARKING PEOPLE

By Matt Penney

I just returned from a parking conference in Arkansas. I’m now sitting back at my desk trying to catch up on everything I missed during my time away. Work stacks up so quickly. As my attention span gets the better of me, I find my mind drifting back to thoughts from the conference.

This morning, I have been sharing highlights of conversations with the Baylor office staff. Small nuggets mostly; quick thoughts on how other universities solved a specific problem. Sometimes they’re words of warning about issues another department encountered. We laughed together when I repeated crazy customer stories from across the country—it’s good to know it’s not just Baylor.

Then there are stories I internalized: A peer manager at another university visibly strained by his supervisor, a micro manager who doesn’t understand parking. A team of directors who all knew their operation inside and out. How the room was filled with humble leaders and a handful of bold karaoke singers.

At that conference, almost without exception, what I saw impressed me: creative problem-solvers looking for the best technology for their campus. Budget-conscious planners stretching to get the most bang for their buck. Visionaries who didn’t necessarily like the rise of yet another mode of transportation but understand the trends need attention. Most importantly, I saw managers who cared about their customers.

I’ve heard it said that no one chooses parking, that parking chooses you. From what I can tell, parking has chosen some outstanding people.

MATT PENNEY is director of parking and transportation services at Baylor University.

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MOBILITY IS AN OUTCOME

By Casey Jones, CAPP

A simple but fundamental truism of our industry is that people don’t park to park; they park to do something else. Our industry didn’t always get this. In our early days, the focus was on getting cars parked between painted lines. Today our focus is on providing programs, services, and facilities with the user and the destination in mind. When we align our offerings with the reason people are driving and parking, we positively affect the city, university, hospital, airport, or retail shopping center and their visitors, guests, employees, and students. Parking is a means to a greater goal, and our industry advanced when we embraced this way of thinking.

IPI’s name change to the International Parking & Mobility Institute signals another critical change in thinking. Mobility describes the ease by which people can access their destinations of choice and includes the beginning, way points, and end of each trip the transportation network used between destinations; and various modes of travel conveyance whether by car, shared transportation, public, or active transportation. Mobility is therefore an outcome, and if I have it I can easily, conveniently, and economically access destinations of choice or necessity. If mobility is limited, I am impeded in my ability to do the things I want or need to do.

It’s an exciting time to be a parking and mobility professional, and our expanding role means that our efforts are more important than ever. Embrace this change and join the movement focused on more positive outcomes for the communities we serve.

CASEY JONES, CAPP, is vice president with TimHaahs.

Ready for more? Read IPMI’s blog every business day in your daily Forum digest email (10 a.m. Eastern) or at parking-mobility.org/blog.

Have something to say? Send post submissions to editor Kim Fernandez at fernandez@parking-mobility.org.

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STATE AND REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT | MID-SOUTH TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING ASSOCIATION

MSTPA Soars through 2018

By Liz Zimmer

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HREE, TWO, ONE: BLAST OFF! The Mid-South Transportation and Parking Association (MSTPA) 2018 Annual Conference soared as it achieved record attendance in Huntsville, Ala., last March. Attendance of parking professionals, vendors, and professional-services providers totaled 160. The conference kicked off with a special event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center that featured an inspirational speech by Robert Stewart, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and NASA astronaut.

The annual conference did not disappoint with its tradeshow, networking time, and educational presentations that were divided up into educational tracks to help attendees select their desired sessions.

The tracks included technology/strategic planning and operations/management. The association’s annual and anticipated frontline training in customer service was provided by Roamy Valera, CAPP. The city of Huntsville was a hospitable host and even welcomed the attendees to a block party.

Who We Are

The Mid-South Parking Association was initially formed as a nonprofit in February 1999. The association consists of colleges, universities, cities, and airports in the Mid-South region. The first annual conference was held that fall in Nashville, Tenn. In 2006,

the organization reorganized as the Mid-South Transportation & Parking Association to address more transit-related issues.

The MSTPA’s mission is to provide professional growth, development, and interaction among persons involved in the operation of transportation and parking programs within the Mid-South region. This association of transportation and parking professionals is organized to identify issues, share information, identify and evaluate solutions to improve parking programs, and stay updated on legislative changes that affect transportation and parking operations.

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marketing manager/ principal of THP Limited, Inc. She can be reached at liz@thpltd.com.

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MSTPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Tad Irvin Premier Parking VICE PRESIDENT Mike Harris, MBA, CAPP University of Mississippi TREASURER Steve Hernandez, CAPP Parkopedia SECRETARY Mike Tudor Parking Authority of River City DIRECTORS Brent Matthews, CAPP Chattanooga Area Regional Transit Beverly Lowe City of Huntsville Mitch Skyer Passio Technologies & Solstice Transportation Group Tracy Owens Vanderbilt University Don Andrae Auburn University Mark your calendars for the 2019 MSTPA Annual Conference, March 4–6, 2019, Lexington, Ky. To learn more or to join MSTPA, please visit our website at mstpa.org.

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Around the Industry SKIDATA Positions Sales Role in Manhattan for Key Business Development SKIDATA HAS SELECTED GEORG DICK as the dedicated sales representative in the five boroughs of New York City and Long Island. As SKIDATA continues to expand direct sales, installation, and service operations throughout the United States, the company has identified New York City as a prime opportunity for its business development. Dick, previously the manager of the SKIDATA distributor network, has been reassigned as the sales professional for the New York metropolitan area.

While SKIDATA has over 1,000 parking installations in the U.S., there is a limited install base in the New York market. Dick is tasked with expanding the company’s presence in New York.

Some of the current area installs include Westchester Medical Center, White Plains Hospital, Kings Plaza Mall, The Shops at Atlas Park, and Brooklyn Junction. SKIDATA’s modern parking solutions include state-of-the-art access control systems capable of frictionless and mobile functionality as well as SKIDATA’s 3M Asset Refreshment Program, which brings new life to the obsolete 3M/Federal APD access systems.

“SKIDATA has had great success nationwide in the past years and has reinvested a large part of the returns in our brand-new local office in New Brunswick, N.J., as well as our improved service structure,” Dick says. “SKIDATA has made a long term commitment to the New York area and I am proud to bring our supreme solutions to this market.” SKIDATA is currently preparing to

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expand its presence on Long Island with its upcoming project with Stony Brook University.

SKIDATA’s 2015 purchase of 3M’s Parking Business software (EFMS, ScanNet) and firmware, along with PARCS equipment drawings, gave it exclusive rights to develop and produce 3M’s parking products (formerly known as Federal APD). The 3M Asset Refreshment Program has been developed to offer existing sites the ability to run 3M/ FAPD hardware with SKIDATA software (Parking.Logic) and to gradually replace non-functioning units with SKIDATA hardware. This program extends the life cycle of current equipment, allowing for a gradual replacement instead of costly full-system overhauls and ensures payments are being processed on PA DSS validated terminals.

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WGI Announces Transformative Leader and Industry Veteran Gregory Sauter, PE, Joins Firm as President DAVID WANTMAN, PE, proudly announces that he will be sharing the leadership of WGI with newly hired president, Gregory Sauter, PE, and that he will step fully into the role of CEO—a carefully crafted strategic initiative more than a year in the making.

The move, identified last year in WGI’s strategic growth plan, as well as under discussion of its board of directors for months, promises to deliver on the firm’s aggressive goals that are rapidly coming to fruition.

“I will be bifurcating my title from president and CEO to just CEO,” says Wantman, who assumed leadership of the firm from his father, Joel, who founded the company in 1972. “Greg has a tremendous reputation in our profession as part of the leadership team with one of the largest firms in the world as it rocketed from a few thousand employees to over 100,000 professionals and the ENR 500 top ranking.

“We are at a unique time in our industry, and Greg also has exceptional experience in advancing cutting-edge technologies that are transforming how we envision, design, and deliver infrastructure. That provides WGI with a special opportunity to follow the example and experience of someone fully qualified to assist with the many challenges that WGI will face as we execute our 2025 vision of 1,000 associates and $200 million in revenue.”

Sauter’s qualifications and experience are both broad and deep. He is best characterized as someone operating “at the intersection of culture, technology, and performance; driving success for organizations via cultural transformation, leveraging advanced technologies,

with a commitment to ethics, integrity, and authentic leadership.”

“I am very excited to be joining a dynamic and rapidly growing firm like WGI with such a strong culture and team which punches way above their weight.

I am particularly enthusiastic about David’s clear strategic vision for the future and the opportunity to leverage both my industry and technology experience as part of that vision. Digitization is changing our industry, and we are excited to be at the forefront of that change,” ­Sauter says.

During Sauter’s 15 years with the largest design firm in the world, his commitment to ethics, people, leadership, corporate social responsibility, excellence, sustainability, and safety garnered national and international awards, including Ethisphere’s 100 most ethical companies list, the Gold American Business Awards, multiple International Business Awards, and Newsweek’s Top 500 Greenest Companies. Sauter is also the co-founder of Smart City Works, the world’s first business actuator, helping to accelerate early-stage com-

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panies focused on civil infrastructure and advance technologies in mature organizations.

“It is more than just Greg’s leadership and commitment to transformative technology that attracted WGI,” Wantman adds. “His reputation as a civic leader, teacher, humanitarian, entrepreneur, and global thinker dovetails with the vision I and the WGI leadership team have for our associates, our corporate culture, and our future.”

The last several years, Sauter’s time has been well spent, beginning with his involvement in Engineers Without Borders as past president and board chairman; as an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City teaching global entrepreneurship and innovation in civil engineering; as board director of OmniEarth, working with companies that recognize the earth is a vibrant and interactive system, and therefore these modern global businesses need to understand, manage, and predict the world around them with quantitative geoanalytics; president and chief executive at Crossroads Advisory, a consultancy committed to advancing leadership through executive and organizational transformation, ethics, integrity, and authentic leadership; and as founder of Smart City Works, a business accelerator working to improve livability and resilience in cities through focus on the built environment, dramatically changing the way civil infrastructure is designed, built, and operated.

Sauter will divide his time between New Jersey and WGI’s South Florida headquarters, as well as WGI’s 13 other offices in Florida, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, and Texas.

Park and Shop and LaSalle Court Install OPUS AMANO MCGANN, a leader in the parking industry, was awarded the contract for the Park and Shop and LaSalle Court parking ramps in Downtown Minneapolis, Minn.

The Park and Shop and LaSalle Court ramps are family owned and have been serving Minneapolis for over 70 years.

The ramps are centrally located, connected to the Twin Cities extensive skyway system and open 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. With 1,700 spaces and a diverse parking clientele of contract and transient patrons, Park and Shop and LaSalle

Court required a comprehensive and intuitive Parking Access and Revenue Control System to help their operations run at their full potential.

Amano McGann installed OPUSeries® hardware and iParcProfessional® facility management software. As an added convenience to the parking patronage, central payon-foot devices and credit card-only central pay stations were installed in strategic areas of each site for intuitive payment options.

Schiphol Real Estate Chooses Park Assist’s M4 Smart-Sensor Parking Guidance System PARK ASSIST HAS WON the Parking Guidance System (PGS) contract for the Outlook Building at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Sitting opposite Schiphol’s headquarters, the Outlook Building is home to Microsoft’s headquarters in The Netherlands as well as for Spaces, Cargill, and other international tenants.

The Outlook Building is owned by Schiphol Real Estate, a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Schiphol Group.

Schiphol Real Estate develops, manages, operates, and invests in commercial real estate, primarily at and around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The headquarters is located at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Europe’s third largest airport that serves over 69 million passengers annually.

Schiphol Real Estate, Microsoft, and Spaces are in the process of re-developing their Outlook Building to meet with Smart Building requirements and needed a smart PGS to help exceed them.

In addition to this opportunity, Park

Assist’s M4 camera based smart-sensor powered technology will significantly improve the Outlook customer experience by easing the car-finding process

with color-coded signage and the monitoring of several dead-ends in the car park.

A global market leader in PGS, Park Assist’s M4 camera-based solution uses integrated license plate recognition technology as well as digital directional signage, guiding drivers to the nearest available space with directional signage that is configured to display real-time parking availability.

Outlook Building visitors will now enjoy effortless parking with guidance throughout the entire garage and return to their cars using Park Assist’s Find Your Car™ feature.

Schiphol Real Estate will also take advantage of Park Assist’s software feature Park Alerts™.

With this addition, Schiphol will be able to monitor spaces that are specifically reserved and have time restrictions, receiving notifications if a car is in an incorrect bay or has dwelled in the space for too long.

Park Assist will work together with Schiphol’s preferred parking products supplier, Skidata, to complete the project. Installation was expected to begin in October and will go live in December.

“Park Assist is delighted to work with Schiphol and Skidata to advance this contemporary smart-technology initiative elevating the customer experience and promoting efficiency in garage operations,” said Gary Neff, CEO of Park Assist.

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Italo Stays on Board with ParkCloud for Contract Renewal EUROPEAN ONLINE PARKING reservation leader ParkCloud has announced a contract renewal with Italian high-speed rail network Italo following a successful first year in partnership.

The renewal is a nod to ParkCloud’s ongoing commitment to growing its extensive car park coverage across the Italian market, as well as maintaining booking growth across the 25 rail stations Italo covers.

Affiliated exclusively through the Italotreno Parking white label, customers can benefit from the convenience of browsing and comparing features online before booking their parking reservation alongside their travel.

Francesco Fiore, chief of quality and industrial product development at Italo, says, “We wanted to give our passengers more flexibility to pre-plan different elements of their journey, and the wide offering of car park coverage ParkCloud has across the Italian rail market has given us the means to do just that.

“Italo’s service centers on a comfortable, convenient travel experience, and presenting passengers with the option to reserve their station parking online complements this well.”

Working collectively over the contract period with the Italo team, ParkCloud has ensured a streamlined, fast, and efficient booking process for passengers to dovetail with Italo’s four levels of “journey ambiences”—smart, comfort, prima, and club

executive—as they travel between its well-connected lines.

ParkCloud’s brand partnership manager, Nicola Pilling, said: “The white label platform offers Italo passengers a more succinct travel itinerary, complete with various touchpoints and language options, allowing for a more enjoyable overall journey.

“Behind the scenes, it’s important that our brand partners feel we strengthen the services they offer and add real value to customers, which is why we’re thrilled to be continuing our collaboration with Italo.”

Servicing over 20 cities across Italy, Italo’s routes cover popular visitor destinations such as Rome, Milan, Venice, and Florence.

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mote use. PCS provides customers with complete solutions composed of pre-sales consultative services, pilot products, in-car vehicle installation, project management, and onsite technical services and support.

TNS Further Targets Unattended and eCommerce Payments with ADVAM Acquisition TRANSACTION NETWORK SERVICES (TNS) announces it has agreed to acquire unattended and eCommerce payments specialist ADVAM in a transaction that strengthens TNS’ core payment capabilities and that will allow TNS to further target the payments market across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.

Headquartered in Adelaide, Australia, ADVAM is one of the world’s leading providers of unattended payments and eCommerce solutions to the parking, airport, shopping center, government, and self-service sectors. ADVAM processes millions of transactions and reservations daily in over 20 countries.

“This is an important strategic acquisition for TNS as it helps us to expand both our and ADVAM’s operations and capabilities. ADVAM’s unique set of feature-rich unattended and eCommerce solutions complement our portfolio of services, giving customers of both companies access to a broader set of payments and connectivity functionality from a single supplier,” saysTNS CEO Mike Keegan.

“The unattended payment terminals and eCommerce markets are primed for continued growth as consumers embrace the convenience, flexibility, and speed these facilities offer.

An independent research study recently found that 46 percent of consumers use their credit/debit cards at unattended car parking meters, kiosks, or exit barriers, and a significant number are willing to use wearable devices or digital wallets at

these locations. We are excited to further build upon our payments capabilities with this acquisition.”

ADVAM, which has been a customer of TNS in the U.K. since 2011, will expand its services globally through access to TNS’ extensive connections with banks, acquirers and processors, TNS’ local expertise and knowledge in the numerous markets TNS serves, and TNS’ additional value-added services, such as encryption and tokenization.

ADVAM’s CEO Jose Da Silva says, “We’re delighted to join the TNS family as ADVAM has always been focused on delivering market-leading solutions and excellent customer service. These same qualities are a hallmark of TNS. “Becoming part of TNS strengthens our offering to existing customers and gives us a springboard for growth. TNS is the perfect partner for ADVAM due to its reputation, specialist capabilities, strong customer base, and solid history as a trusted supplier. We look forward to working together.”

The acquisition, which is now pending regulatory approval, gives TNS additional offices in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. Approximately 110 ADVAM employees will be joining the company. Complemented by TNS’ Network Operating Centers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, ADVAM will continue to provide 24x7x365 support to all of its customers.

Ace Parking Launches Mobility Solutions Division ACE PARKING, a national parking and transportation management company, has launched ACE Mobility Solutions—a division dedicated to providing insightful stewardship and effective mobility solutions for clients in a rapidly evolving transportation ecosystem.

The first of its kind in the industry, ACE Mobility Solutions will set the standard for integrated solutions bridging traditional parking operations with emerging technologies, including auton-

omous and internet-enabled vehicles, smart city initiatives, curb management, ride-share services, traffic flow, pedestrian safety, mass transit, alternative travel modes such as scooters and bikes, data-driven operating strategies, and more.

“Technological innovation has created massive new challenges and opportunities across our industry. It’s also created a need for someone who can help businesses make sense of it all,” says Keith. B Jones, managing partner of Ace. “Our Mobility Solutions division does just that, providing trusted and much-needed stew-

ardship for our client partners through each phase of this mobility revolution.

This begins with practical integrated solutions for today, while delivering the framework to stay one step ahead of tomorrow. True to our tagline, The Mobility Revolution Starts Here, forward-looking companies now have someone to turn to.”

Focused on crafting multi-modal strategies for the movement of people and goods, ACE Mobility Solutions sees the opportunity to enhance consumer experiences, foster greater collaboration between public and private entities, and create new and greater revenue streams for client partners that have never been accessible before.

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Berry Go Merry with £1 Million Car Park Win BERRY SYSTEMS, U.K., is playing a major role in the £12 million scheme to transform Stroud Shopping Center.

The Wolverhampton-based firm has beaten off significant competition to be awarded the £1 million refurbishment of Merrywalks multi-story car park (MSCP)

by Dransfield Properties, an ambitious project that was scheduled to be completed in November.

Using its extensive expertise and proven track record in delivering world-class car park environments, the company refurbished existing lighting, concrete repairs, and structural supports, while also incorporating a new vehicle exit, landscaping, and a state-of-the-art waterproof flooring system.

Work was carried out in phases to ensure that public parking was still available to local people visiting the Merrywalks shopping center.

“This is a major win for us and underlines our ability to work on complex projects that require careful planning and meet strict deadlines,” says Michael Newland, commercial manager at Berry Systems.

“It will take just 16 weeks from work starting for everything to be completed and, at any one time, we could have up to 25 members of our team onsite. When we have finished, the improvements will make Merrywalks MSCP a lighter, welcoming, and ­customer-friendly car park.

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“This is especially challenging considering we are working in a very confined site within close proximity of the public, ensuring that parking is still accessible, and allowing the Merrywalks shopping center to continue to operate.”

Berry Systems, which is part of major infrastructure products group HS Holdings plc, used the latest structural supports to ensure a “belt and braces” approach, with new landscaping work delivering a new exit and steel walkway.

It worked closely with Triflex U.K. to establish a waterproof system that combines Deckfloor and Triflex DCS with appropriate priming systems.

The Merrywalks MSCP is one of a number of recent contract wins for Berry Systems and follows high-profile projects at Eastside in Birmingham and the impressive £70 million Lincoln Transport Hub. It has also worked with Laing O’Rourke on the new Area Seven multi-story car park at Manchester Airport, where it supplied 3,000 meters of its BS6180 compliant spring steel buffer system perimeter edge protection across nine levels.

These latest projects mark an ongoing period of growth that has seen the firm increase sales significantly and expand its workforce by 25 percent as it looks to develop activities in adjacent markets.

Flowbird Unveils Complete Solution Parking App FLOWBIRD GROUP, a curbside management and urban mobility solutions company, has announced that its newest mobile application launched in November 2018. The app, called flowbird, takes the customer-friendly features from the company’s applications—Whoosh!, WayToPark, Yellowbrick, and PathToPark—and blends them together into one comprehensive mobility solution.

The app offers the following functionality: ■■ Mobile payments (iPhone, Android, web).

■■ Coupon-code acceptance (validation codes).

■■ Real-time parking occupancy (for select locations).

■■ Find my car (for those who forget where they parked).

■■ In-car payments via Apple Car Play and Siri Payment.

The flowbird app was on display at the 2018 National Parking Association convention in Las Vegas, Nev., along with other innovative Flowbird solutions.

“Our team is very excited about the launch of the flowbird mobile app,” says Benoit Reliquet, president of Flowbird North America. “This app combines the best features of all of our brands while adding additional urban mobility services, making it easier for users to find and pay for parking.”

Currently, Flowbird’s mobile applications are active in 15 countries and over 400 cities. The flowbird app is available in the App Store and Google Play Store.

Perry Griffith Named Senior VP at Denison Parking DENISON PARKING, a parking operator based in Indianapolis, Ind., has promoted C. Perry Griffith III to senior vice president. “In addition to the leadership of our corporate strategy and business development, Perry has taken a lead role in advancing our development and use of technology,” says Jeff Line, president of Denison Parking. “Perry’s energy, linked to his open and transparent communication style, has played an integral role in our workplace. Additionally, Perry represents the fourth generation of Griffith family ownership and leadership of Denison Parking.”

“The level of enthusiasm and vitality that Perry brings is felt throughout the company,” said Denison Parking’s chairman of the board, C. Perry Griffith Jr. “His skillset and prior management

consulting experience have helped facilitate incredible collaboration and will continue to be instrumental in our advancement.”

Griffith will focus on continuing to serve the needs of clients in the nine-state footprint where Denison currently operates, while seeking out new opportunities to add value to

clients, partners, and customers. He will also continue to shape the strategy for Denison Parking while leading the business development efforts nationally.

The move directly supports Denison Parking’s efforts to grow the business and help its clients capitalize on the digital transformation impacting all industries. Denison Parking, a trusted partner to clients for over 80 years, is helping customers and clients evolve their parking experience and facility management to better meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s customers. Griffith having previously worked extensively as a management consultant for companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, and Accenture, is well-equipped to lead this evolution for Denison Parking.

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