The EGEN SWATeam held another bi-weekly meeting. Topics covered include:
Meeting Minutes 3/29
During this meeting, the PWR SWAT Team coordinated with Marya Ryan, the new Zero Waste Coordinator. We discussed previous campus efforts for multiple different projects like composting and recycling as well as introduced ourselves to one another.
The SWAT Team also was updated on progress with reviewing the Paper Policy Draft comments and will finish this review by next meeting.
Furthermore, a discussion of composting efforts on campus was discussed and an effort to create a comprehensive map of waste pickup routes will be created.
Next meeting is TBD.
The EGEN SWATeam held another bi-weekly meeting. Topics covered include:
Updates and discussion of greywater meter, greywater design standards, cooling tower cycles of concentration, water use dashboard, and student outreach.
The "invitation for bid" for our campus's purchase of offsets (both to replace those we sold to BPTN, and also to open our "offsets storeroom") has now been released, and bids will be opened in mid-April.
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The University pays a stormwater utility fee to both the City of Urbana and the City of Champaign. The fee is based on total impervious area that drains into city-owned storm sewers. If stormwater drains into university-owned sewers then directly discharges to a receiving stream, there is no fee assessed.
There are credits and incentives that the university can apply toward the stormwater utility fee. By maintaining compliance with the university’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES), the university receives a 5% credit from each city. Additionally, each city has their own Credit and Incentive Manual (attached) which provides an opportunity for the university to reduce their stormwater utility fee by reducing the impact of the runoff from their properties by methods such as installing sustainable storm water practices that allow stormwater to infiltrate into the ground. The manuals have specific guidelines on how to calculate the credits based on the particular stormwater practices that are employed.
Updates on BIF Greywater Meter application. Discussion on Cooling Tower COC and "Zero" blowdown systems.
At the PWR SWAT Team meeting on March 15th, the team debated over the message in the new Ethics Compliance Message concerning recycling standards and rules. The team decided that two videos should be created, one with base instructions for recycling, the other for explaining the commonly misunderstood paper policy. The team will look more into the paper policy draft and suggest a new paper policy for the campus.
CEE students Chenxi Jiang and Shuang Chen are working with Morgan Johnston to edit the iCAP Portal project pages for each iCAP objective. Chapters 8-12 do not have SWATeams, and the background research on these chapters has been completed. The edited project pages are scheduled to be online by the end of March. The next step is editing the iCAP objectives for each SWATeam chapter in the iCAP. Chenxi and Shaung will be meeting with SWATeam representatives over the next few weeks to gather information, and then the project pages will be edited to reflect the latest info. We expect to be able to complete this before Earth Day on April 22, 2017.
Diliya Murtazina and Morgan Johnston reviewed the work tasks completed this year, and identified files to finalize for the end of this project. Diliya will formalize the behavior change strategies document, collect all the example images, and provide documentation on the creation of the building level energy charts with examples.
The iCAP Working Group (iWG) met on Feb 16, 2017. They supported the South Campus Afforestation recommendation. Their official comments for this recommendation was:
"The iCAP includes an objective to add 50 acres of trees on campus, and this SWATeam recommendation suggests one potential location. The iWG suggests the College of ACES work with the Campus Master Planning committee to identify appropriate locations for additional trees. Another option to consider is parallel to the Embarras River."
See attached the iWG assessment complete with comments from all the iWG members.
The Office of the Provost approved $75,000 in one-time funding for the next step in the LED Exit Sign retrofit project. The funding of $75,000 is for LED Exit Sign lighting replacement, additions, and new building surveys. Material and labor of $70,000 would be used to replace 343 fixtures in 20 buildings at an average rate of $204/fixture. An additional $5,000 is proposed to survey 50 campus buildings for exit light counts. That will provide the input necessary for the next phase, once this phase is completed.
The EGEN SWATeam held another bi-weekly meeting. Topics covered include:
The iCAP Working Group met and discussed the following agenda items. Meeting notes are attached.
1. Brief iCAP Portal overview by Morgan
2. Discuss any updates to Water002, Cooling Tower Increase COC
3. Discuss Trans008, Bike Parking in Ramps
4. Discuss updates to Econs004, Green Labs Coordinator
5. Consider issues with recommendation process and view recommendation tracker
The iCAP Working Group (iWG) met on February 23rd, 2017, to discuss and start the assessment on the SWATeam recommendation EGen006 Petascale Offsets. The iWG's official recommendation was:
"This has been an open issue since the 2010 iCAP and the 2015 iCAP. This should be addressed with the current discussions about supercomputing on campus."
See attached the iWG assessment complete with official comments from all the iWG members.
Updates on BIF Greywater Meter, Increase Cooling Tower COC, and Design Center Greywater Piping recommendations. Discussion on the development of water use dashboard.
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