Energy consumption at BIF during the week of March 20-March 26 is attached. We are tracking energy usage while most people are off-campus.

The power consumption at the Busines Instructional Facility (BIF) is lower this week, as students leave for spring break, and staff transition to working form home.  Stay tuned for additional screen shots as the COVID transition continues.

The CEE 398 Project Based Learning and the Sustainability Minor's ENVS 492 Capstone students completed their nine fall 2017 reports.

There were five projects completed for capstone partners:

1. Energy Dashboards for Accenture
2. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Johnson Controls
3. Food Hub Study for The Land Connection
4. Sensors and Green Buildings for CERL
5. Biomass Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) for Chip Energy

There were four other projects completed by CEE students:

1. Rain Garden Design
2. Solar and Green Roofs Analysis
3. Food Waste to Energy
4. ADA Sidewalk Repair Cost Analysis

Day version:

https://ednawebtest.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/stackv2/graph.html

Week version:

https://ednawebtest.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/stackv2/graph.html?week

At the ECBS SWATeam meeting this week, Sam Wilson, a grad student in Communication, presented his ongoing research efforts on fume hood behaviors, which will tie into the development of our Green Labs Initiative.  Big Picture Recommendation discussion continued as the team worked on making clear connections to iCAP 2015 in the document, which is set to be submitted by the end of next week.  The online Energy Dashboard has been updated, courtesy of Mike Marquissee.  Eco-Olympics results indicated competing buildlings across campus achieved up to a 10.6% reduction in energy usage (Lundgren Hall).  Grad student Anna Tanaglia presented the success of public speaking sections (CMN 101) that focused on campus sustainability; students seemed to enjoy these topics and some have expressed interest in getting more involved in campus sustainability efforts.  Claudia presented a social marketing campaign class project on student involvement in campus sustainability efforts, the findings of which may guide future campus engagement efforts.

The iCAP ECBS Objective 2 consultation group is forming, and the first meeting is planned for the week after spring break.  Karl updated on fume hood efficiency efforts, which have led to several fume hoods being shut down.  The Energy Dashboard project was discussed and give to the Objective 4 Subcommittee as a new item to work on.  The team also discussed ways to advocate for energy conservation funding in the campus master plan and decided to create a proposal to send to the Office of the Provost.

Energy Conservation & Building Standards SWATeam meeting minutes for December 9.

The major agenda items were about the Energy Dashboard Project and a presentation by Scott Willenbrock from the Energy Generation, Purchasing, Distribution SWATeam.

see file