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Projects at this location
Project | Description |
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Compost at Illini Union |
The Illini Union is in the early stages of implementing a pre-consumer waste composting pilot program. Several businesses already participate in a composting program with the City of Urbana Landscape Recycling Center. More information to follow! |
Diversity and Inclusion Center |
Under the umbrella of OIIR and along with several partners throughout our community, we seek to explore the feasibility of a multifunctional space which will allow for in-depth examinations of the complex layers of diversity, equity,and inclusion. Said space will accommodate our interest in building upon existing campus conversations and knowledge generation with regard to sustainability and environmental justice. |
Recycling Bins at the Illini Union |
The Illini Union piloted new recycling bins to encourage appropriate recycling behavior. |
Sustainable Events Program |
The iCAP 2020 objective 7.2 is that "The Illini Union and Illini Union Board commit to 80% of their events qualifying as sustainable by FY24." The responsible campus unit for championing this objective is the Illini Union. |
NRES 285: iCAP Sustainability Ambassadors |
The goal of this course is to have students understand how to implement climate action policy through examination of University building stock and personnel behavior and developing recommendations to alter both stock and behavior to achieve iCAP 2020 goals. This is a building-level, “bottom-up” approach to campus sustainability, where students will be connected with facility managers to gain an applicable understanding of sustainability opportunities. Course Objectives: |
Plastic Bag Recycling |
The goal of this project is to make plastic bag and film recycling more accessible to the campus community. 6 collections bins have been set up at 4 different buildings. After evaluation of the current setup, more drop-off locations may be added or changed. By completing this project, Plastic Bag Recycling will offer multiple benefits such as: |
Outdoor Recycling Bin Update |
This project will improve the waste process around the outdoor campus areas and increase recycling participation. It will do this by increasing recycling bin visibility with improved bins and signage, co-locating waste and recycling bins, and improving the overall layout of waste and recycling bins on campus. There are currently 372 concrete trash bins on campus and an additional 60 made of other materials. Facilities & Services initially proposed to remove all 432 of the bins and to replace them with a total of 133 dual bins. |
FY18 RCx |
In FY18, the Retrocommissioning teams addressed deferred maintanence in the following buildings. |
Illini Union 104 & 222 Lighting |
The Illini Union currently has two rooms that are using outdated lighting fixtures. Rooms 104 and 222 of the Illini Union are utilized extensively throughout the day. Both rooms maintain a high level of foot traffic and visibility within the building. An assessment team concluded that transitioning the old lighting fixtures to LED would have an overwhelmingly positive impact on energy consumption and unnecessary waste. |
Transportation Alternatives |
The TA Set-Aside authorizes funding for programs and projects defined as transportation alternatives, including on- and off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities, infrastructure projects for improving non-driver access to public transportation and enhanced mobility, community improvement activities such as historic preservation and vegetation management, and environmental mitigation related to stormwater and habitat connectivity; recreational trail projects; safe routes to school projects; and projects for planning, designing, or constructing boulevards and other roadways largely in the ri |
Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) |
The INFRA program provides dedicated, discretionary funding for projects that address critical issues facing our nation’s highways and bridges, and to projects that are in line with the Administration’s principles to help rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure |
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program |
The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Program (TIGER) provides funding for innovative, multi-modal and multi-jurisdictional transportation projects that promise significant economic and environmental benefits to an entire metropolitan area, a region, or the nation. |
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program |
The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Program (TIGER) provides funding for innovative, multi-modal and multi-jurisdictional transportation projects that promise significant economic and environmental benefits to an entire metropolitan area, a region, or the nation. |
Public Transportation Innovation |
This program provides funding to develop innovative products and services assisting transit agencies in better meeting the needs of their customers. |
Bus and Bus Facilities Program |
The Buses and Bus Related Equipment and Facilities program provides capital assistance for new and replacement buses, related equipment, and facilities. |
Building Technologies Office |
The Building Technologies office leads a network of research and industry partners to continually develop innovative, cost-effective energy saving solutions in building design. Some of the relevant programs under the Building Technologies office include |
Building Technologies Office |
The Building Technologies office leads a network of research and industry partners to continually develop innovative, cost-effective energy saving solutions in building design. Some of the relevant programs under the Building Technologies office include |
Structural and Architectural Engineering and Materials (SAEM) |
SAEM aims to enable sustainable buildings and other structures that can be continuously occupied and/or operated during the structure’s useful life. The SAEM program supports fundamental research for advancing knowledge and innovation in structural and architectural engineering and materials that promotes a holistic approach to analysis and design, construction, operation, maintenance, retrofit, and repair of structures. |
Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) |
The goal of this Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) solicitation is to support strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning |
Waste Stream Characterization Study Phase 2 |
The primary deliverable of this proposed project is to provide a detailed waste characterization assessment for three facilities located throughout the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls (LAR), Business Instructional Facility (BIF), Roger Adams Laboratory(RAL) are facilities that will be characterized. |
Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project (MCORE) |
The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD), City of Champaign, City of Urbana, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are partnering to improve mobility in our communities core through a federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. The $47.2M Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project (MCORE) Project is unprecedented in our community’s history and will have a transformative impact. |
Illini Union Revolving Loan Pool |
The Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) and the Illini Union collaborate on sustainability projects that take place at the Illini Union, through the Illini Union Revolving Loan Pool. |
EPA SmartWay Affiliate |
The University of Illinois became an Affiliate of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay® Transportation Partnership in June 2020, after University Housing’s Dining Services joined SmartWay in 2013. The SmartWay program aims to reduce global freight emissions by providing strategies for shippers and carriers to adopt more sustainable practices, and Affiliates help spread the word about sustainable supply chain transportation efforts and grow the SmartWay Program. ® SmartWay is a registered service mark of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). |
Sustainability Meet and Greet Coffees |
At the beginning of Fall 2013, the Center for a Sustainable Environment is hosting a series of Sustainability Meet and Greet coffees to facilitate campus-wide discussion and interest about sustainability efforts on campus and in the community. These are spread over the entire work week, with coffee and snacks being offered Monday through Friday at the Illini Union from 10-11 each morning. By offering the event multiple times during the week, it is hoped that more campus students, faculty, and staff will be able to participate. |
Glove Recycling |
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign participates in Kimberly-Clark’s RightCycle Program. |
Illini Union Audit and Retrofits |
An Energy Audit and Retrofitting of the Illini Union was funded by the Student Sustainability Committee in 2006. In 2007, the Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC) completed the audit with help from students. As suggested by the audit, lighting retrofits are planned for the Union. The total cost of these retrofits is $90,000, but they will save the Union $28,900 per year in electricity costs. Retrofits will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 469 tons per year. |
Projects
- Building Technologies Office
- Building Technologies Office
- Bus and Bus Facilities Program
- Compost at Illini Union
- Diversity and Inclusion Center
- EPA SmartWay Affiliate
- FY18 RCx
- Glove Recycling
- Illini Union 104 & 222 Lighting
- Illini Union Audit and Retrofits
- Illini Union Revolving Loan Pool
- Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA)
- Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project (MCORE)
- NRES 285: iCAP Sustainability Ambassadors
- Outdoor Recycling Bin Update
- Plastic Bag Recycling
- Public Transportation Innovation
- Recycling Bins at the Illini Union
- Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
- Structural and Architectural Engineering and Materials (SAEM)
- Sustainability Meet and Greet Coffees
- Sustainable Events Program
- Transportation Alternatives
- Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program
- Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program
- Waste Stream Characterization Study Phase 2
Project Updates
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9/4/2024
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8/22/2024
Using the #EPASmartWay logo helps differentiate your company from the competition. Be sure to let your customers and stakeholders know that you’re leading the way on clean, sustainable supply chain management. Learn more: epa.gov/smartway