4/19/24 Project Update
Lowell Miller is updating a scope change for this grant to look at acquiring a machine to recycle 3d prints and other plastic that can then repurpose those materials into 3d printer filaments.
Lowell Miller is updating a scope change for this grant to look at acquiring a machine to recycle 3d prints and other plastic that can then repurpose those materials into 3d printer filaments.
The iCAP Engagement Team met on 04/18/2024 to review 2020 objectives, and discuss iCAP 2025 planning. The team will continue to add to the living documents and finalize them in May. The team also discussed the upcoming Sustainapalooza event.
CTAC meeting was held on Monday, April 15, 2024, focusing mainly on the Campus Bike Plan update. Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/e50m8p6xzclztmf9grnzdt7bvloyo39e
Michael McKelvey, Miriam Keep, and Sarthak Prasad met to discuss modifications to how projects are associated with recommendations and whether there are any modifications we'd like to make to the current setup.
Michael McKelvey and Sarthak Prasad met to discuss how to report Bike Fee funding in the iCAP Portal. The Bike Fee and SSC are currently the only student-initiated fees to report, but we should consider the possibility that new sustainability-related fees will need to be reported in the future as well.
Two options came out of our discussion:
All, Getting busier with the warmer temps. Working our way through a glut of single speed bikes, which are both easy to fix (thus far; knock on wood) and will be in demand come the fall. We’ve got around 20 or so bikes for sale, but the math is shifting from when we have more time to fix than help to now having more people in than down time to fix up bikes.
Over the weekend The Bike Project held a community ride, which I attended. Great weather for some bumpy road meandering!
The numbers:
Visitors: 26
Sales: $1,047.50
Bikes (refurb): 4 for $685
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tires/tubes: 12 for $96
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for March 2024.
Please see attached the Campus Bike Plan progress report FY24.
Hi all,
We have completed all outdoor bin location proposals. With all the photos it is a large document, so I have placed it on a shared Box. Please let me know if any of these locations need further clarification
In response to your question below of completion by June 30 that is not possible. Also, without knowing all of the locations it is difficult to give you an answer as to what the completion timeframe would be. Below are the two scenarios depending on the proposed locations of the bins.
Installing the bins on existing concrete:
1. Ironworkers can go to the site with the bins/post with two guys and install the anchors and the bins in 2-3 crew hours (4-6 hours total with two guys).
Installing the bins on newly placed concrete:
1. This process will begin with the labor supervisor going to the site and marking the location. 1-2 hours
2. The utility marking crew would then be notified, and they have a 48 hour window to locate utilities. 1-2 hours
3. Laborers and operators go to the site and dig out the spot and place rock. 3-4 crew hours
4. Cement finishers form and pour the concrete and it needs to cure for at least 48 hours. 3-4 crew hours
5. Ironworkers can install the anchors and the bin once concrete has cured. 2-3 crew hours
Depending on how closely the locations are to each other they may prepare 2 or 3 at once and rotate through those with the different steps above. However, that is not always possible.
I hope this helps to see how the two differ in time needed and to see how it really gets involved when the location requires new concrete.
I wanted to reach out & reconnect on the topic of the black, metal outdoor bins. I believe we have 18 identified locations approved by Brent Lewis ready to be installed as soon as the shops are able (locations attached) – these all require concrete poured. We then have ~56 more stored primarily in the Buenting Barn that we have not yet identified locations for, but will very shortly. Some of them will require concrete and others will not. We have WO# 10814481 for this project. Pete is hoping to have the whole process wrapped up by June 30, 2024. I just wanted to put this back up on the radar and get a sense of whether we will be able to get these all installed by summer?
I will be in contact soon regarding the locations of the remaining bins.
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December 2023 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.
All, Slow week with the bad weather. This week looks better. Friday we’re helping with the Campus Recreation Walking Tour and so will show off our space to some folks that probably wouldn’t visit otherwise—that’ll be fun.
Also have a couple new staff starting this week.
The numbers:
Visitors: 14
Sales: $223.50
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 4 for $35
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
The Land & Water iCAP team met on Teams from 1-2 PM on Friday, April 5th. Meeting minutes are attached.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the March 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 3,001.00 Megawatt hours.
The March 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
The Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) Working Group (iWG) recently approved recommendation Edu009 from the Education iCAP Team to update College of Business course descriptions to reflect the sustainability content.
This recommendation aligns with Objective 6.2 of the iCAP 2020: Establish a comprehensive online repository for courses and academic programs with sustainability content.
The College of Business shared their action plan on completing the approved recommendation (attached).
This will be followed up on in the fall to ensure the proper implementation of the recommendation.
The Education iCAP team met on Teams from 1-2 PM on Thursday, April 4th. Meeting minutes are attached.
All, It’s April! Busier week over here with the warm spell. Tues/Thurs continue to be slower days and the 4 – 6p side of our hours remain more popular—anecdotally. I’ll dig into the numbers and see if that bears out.
We are also trying out new sales tickets for our bikes, with the hopes that it’ll speed up that process as demand at the computer/square station will increase between our checkouts and the Adv. Rec folks.
We received a large donation on Thursday, which we’ll continue to work through this week. Will also facilitate a staff training for a new hire. Plan to tackle some of the abandoned bikes as well.
The numbers:
Visitors: 38
Sales: $727
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $275
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 4 for $120
Tires/tubes: 2 for $19
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 4070 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $619 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.9 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 552 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a huge impact!
This project name was "Fossil Fuels Divestment" which is a misstatement because the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign does not have direct authority over the investments at the UI Foundation. To clarify the goal of this objective in the 2020 iCAP, I updated the project name to be "Fossil Fuels Divestment - Support Letter." I also provided more details in the project description, and added the full text from the iCAP 2020 document in the background section of this project page. ~Morgan