Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla

Job Title

Senior Campus Planner

Last Name

Pavlova-Gillham

First Name

Ludmilla

Discipline

Architectural History and Criticism
Architectural Technology
Architecture
Construction Engineering
Urban, Community and Regional Planning

Introduction

Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, AIA, LEED A.P. is an architect, planner and project manager with over 30 years of professional experience, over two decades of which was dedicated to the University of Massachusetts community. As Senior Campus Planner at UMass Amherst she is responsible for facilities and urban planning to support the comprehensive planning and design activities of the campus. She conducts master plan programming, system and project planning, space utilization studies, feasibility studies, sustainability and campus planning studies. She manages and conducts planning activities and feasibility studies for complex, multi-million-dollar projects, including research and academic facilities, financial analyses and forecasts, development of alternatives and recommendations of solutions. She develops facility programs, goals and objectives, technical requirements, and cost estimates including coordination of in-house staff and management of external consultants. Her work includes land use planning, landscape improvements, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, transportation and infrastructure systems. She provides expert consulting services to University clients and in-house professional staff on campus and facilities planning to support the campus development and master planning process.
Passionate about campus sustainability and heritage preservation, Pavlova-Gillham often lectures on the topic and helped author the first UMass Amherst Sustainability Plan and the Master Plan Sustainability chapter. She is a founding member of UMassBRUT - a campaign designed to educate and advocate for the conservation, renovation, and reuse of Brutalist architecture throughout the UMass higher education state-wide community.  Prior to coming to UMass Amherst she worked for design firms in New York City, most notably for John M.Y. Lee/Michael Timchula Associates, managing the design and construction of the Curtis/Balkan Factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, and as a member of the team that designed the Shenzhen City Center Urban Design and City Hall in Shenzhen, China.
Pavlova-Gillham has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. She has served on the boards of the AIA MA Chapter, the AIA Western Massachusetts Chapter and the USGBC MA Chapter.  Currently she is on the board of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Council and on the AIA Public Architects Committee.

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FY13 Scope III Emissions Methodology and Data
(2013-01-01) Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla
UMass Amherst has developed it's own methodology for calculating the Scope III emissions of the University, which includes emissions generated from air travel and employee and student commuting miles to campus. This report explains the methodology and presents the data outcomes for Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13).
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UMass Amherst Energy Modeling Guidelines
(2015-01) Mostafavi, Nariman; Mendoza, Ted; Quackenbush, Jeffrey G.; Beauregard, Sandy J; Burbank, Jason J; Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Landrey, Kylie A.
Facilities & Campus Services, Sustainable UMass and Campus Planning support sustainability and energy conservation initiatives by providing in-house resources to campus staff as well as designers and contractors working with the University. The Campus energy Modeling Guidelines were developed in 2015 as a resource on how to: i) generate energy models for campus buildings; ii) provide quality assurance review of current energy models; and iii) share UMass Amherst energy modeling input parameters with project design teams for them to establish a baseline building energy profile.
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UMass Amherst Campus Master Plan Executive Summary 2012
(2012-01) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Swinford, Dennis
The UMass Amherst Campus Master Plan Executive Summary 2012 summarizes the principles and goals of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Master Plan 2012 and presents a map of the future campus with a list of proposed building site development options, as described in the main document.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Master Plan 2012
(2012-01) Swinford, Dennis; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; LaCour, Niels; Raine, Simon; Stepanov, Alexander
This is an institutional master plan outlining capacity development for the University of Massachusetts going forward to 2020 and beyond to 2050. The plan establishes a shared vision for future development that features new open spaces; transportation and pedestrian safety; parking decks built on the edge of campus; new bike-ways; new circulation systems including pathways with striking views of the Pioneer Valley; improvements to utilities; and a strategy for reuse of historic buildings. The administration held more than 90 events in the past year with key stakeholders, including students, faculty, staff, host communities and regional representatives and that was complemented by web-based surveys and applications to encourage participation. To meet the university’s current academic and research mission, the plan locates more than 1 million gross square feet of facilities. In an effort to position the university for an unknown future, the plan also illustrates approximately 7 million additional gross square feet, creating a compact, environmentally sensitive and efficient campus. The plan adopts an approach that mixes traditional land uses around a core of facilities adjacent to the campus lawns and pond. This new pattern will encourage a creative environment that will support collaboration, co-curricular learning and research, and will help create a vibrant environment all day and throughout the year. The more "compact/urban environment" in the campus core will also support the campus’s sustainability agenda by promoting shared resources, walking and the careful use of land.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst 2012-2021 Capital Improvement Projects
(2013-01) Vigneau, Douglas; Holler, Juanita; Mathews, John; Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Small, Ezra
In 2013 the University of Massachusetts, on behalf of the University of Massachusetts Building Authority and Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM), submitted an Expanded Environmental Notification Form for the University's 2012 - 2021 Capital Improvement Plan to the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office (MEPA). Taken individually, the majority of the Projects, comprising of 13 building/space, 7 site/landscape, and 5 facility/ utility scale improvement projects, do not require MEPA review as most of the Project sites are confined to infill areas on campus that are currently or have been previously developed. This plan articulates the environmental effects of developing the 2012 - 2021 Capital Improvement Projects (Phase 1 of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Master Plan 2012) in aggregate. The report of environmental impacts associated with the planned growth of the campus includes the following sections: 1) UMass Amherst Campus environmental impacts summary; 2) summaries of each project, 3) a review of the Campus Master Plan process and analysis of alternatives, 4) approach to historical resources; 5) summary of campus sustainability efforts; 6) projected greenhouse gas emissions analysis, 7) stormwater management approach; 8) protection of wetland resources; 9) projected water supply and wastewater impacts; 10) transportation and parking system impacts; 11) planned pedestrian and bicycle accommodations; and 12) construction period impacts. EOEEA approved the application and commended UMass Amherst on its Campus Master Plan engagement process and commitment to sustainability, including the UMass Amherst mandate to achieve LEED Silver certification or better for all new building projects of 20,000 gsf, and the variety of additional measures expected to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts of development.
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UMass Amherst Collections 2013
(2013-01) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla D.; Dumont, Elizabeth R.
During the Campus Master Planning effort the need to better understand and plan for the UMass Amherst collections was identified and an ad-hoc committee was created to help advance a better understanding of the existing collections and how best to plan for the future. The committee was comprised of Directors/ curators of campus academic collections, Campus Planning staff and other related campus professionals. The first task of the committee was to develop a basis for creating a planning framework for the academic collections. The Committee defined existing collections and set a framework and common language that enabled the classification and quantification of collections space on campus. The UMass Amherst Collections 2013 report summarizes each collection, its mission and the contact person responsible for the collection. The term collection was defined to include all the campus holdings that are used for academic, research and outreach purposes, with the exception of the Libraries, which had recently completed a facilities Master Plan outlining strategies for future facilities.
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The Toad not Taken
Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla
Literary inspiration: Robert Frost's poem "The Road not Taken" (and walks in the North Amherst Golf Course where a vernal pool is very much alive). Winner: Best in Show
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Campus Sustainability
(2021-10-22) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla
Sustainability at the UMass Amherst Campus is part of a long tradition of Sustainable Development and is driven by a century of policy, culminating in the latest efforts of the Massachusetts Commonwealth to plan for climate change and carbon neutrality. This presentation provides a summary of current initiatives and processes that are underway to reduce the UMass Amherst carbon footprint and to plan for a transition to renewable energy. It gives an overview of the sustainability and campus engagement resources that Campus Planning makes available to the public and its community of faculty and students, so that they can understand and study the campus physical environment as a living laboratory for the energy transition. The presentation also outlines the campus approach to conservation of historic buildings and landscapes, and underscores the important role that the renovation of mid-century modern buildings will play in addressing campus sustainability and improving the physical environment. A case study of the 2003 – 2006 upgrades to Herter Hall, designed by Colletti Brothers Architects and constructed in 1969, illustrates technical challenges related to phased renovation of mid-century windows and HVAC, as well as indoor air quality benefits associated with the modernization and conservation approach.
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UMass Amherst Campus Master Plan Sustainability Chapter
(2015-01) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla; Mostafavi, Nariman; Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad; Landrey, Kylie A.; Pozveh, Somayeh Tabatabaee; Small, Ezra; Mendoza, Ted; Burbank, Jason J; Ryan, Robert; Swinford, Dennis; la Cour, Niels; Stepanov, Alexander
The UMass Amherst Campus Master Plan Sustainability Chapter articulates the manner in which the Campus Master Plan 2012 principles translate into specific recommendations for campus systems development in support of future smart growth. It summarizes the current physical campus-scale planning projects that Facilities & Campus Services have completed during and after the Master Plan process, and incorporates other operational and educational initiatives that have engaged our campus community as we plan for sustainability. The CMP Chapter is organized in three major sections: i) sustainability overview; ii) campus master plan systems; iii) current initiatives; and iv) next steps. The first section provides the context for sustainability planning at UMass Amherst and summarizes key drivers, such as the Climate Action Plan of 2012 and our approach to greenhouse gas emissions accounting. The second section articulates the Campus Master Plan 2012 systems approach to sustainability and reviews other completed operational initiatives in infrastructure and facilities planning. The overview of current initiatives describes major efforts to advance sustainability across the campus community and is the basis for outlining the steps that Facilities & Campus Services and Sustainable UMass plan to take to advance the goal for a carbon neutral campus.
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Planning for Student Union Functions Study
(2012-01) Pavlova-Gillham, Ludmilla
This is a report to the UMass Amherst Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life that identifies current and future co-curricula student activities on campus and develops creative solutions to help meet those needs. The report includes an inventory of existing activities, maps their campus distribution and proposes a preliminary campus-wide space program for those activities.