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Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
205 North Mathews Avenue
61801
Urbana
, IL
United States
Illinois
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Projects at this location
| Project | Description |
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| Adaptive Aluminum Tensegrity Structure as a Bike Parking Canopy |
Funded in Summer 2020, this project seeks to expand the sustainability and longevity of structural engineering by installing an aluminum bicycle canopy on the Engineering Quad. |
| FY08 RCx |
Retrocommissioning (RCx) was formed in August 2007, under F&S management. The program was formed to help alleviate existing utility deficits, anticipated increases in fuel costs for natural gas and coal, and major maintenance issues. F&S decided to create this special team called RCx to go through these buildings to do as much maintenance as possible within the resources available and improve the air quality as much as possible. This year, they used the motto "saving the planet one building at a time." |
| CEE Project Based Learning (PBL) |
The primary objective of this project-based learning course is to develop critical thinking and engineering problem solving skills by exploring and proposing sustainable solutions to current civil and environmental engineering problems facing the University of Illinois campus community. This class will help students begin to identify themselves as civil and environmental engineers and prepare them for opportunities for summer internships during their undergraduate studies. |
| LED Exit Signs |
As part of the iCAP and LED Campus initiatives at the University, incandescent and flourescent bulbs in Exit Signs are being replaced with LEDs. This is part of the LED Campus commitment to replace all interior wayfinding fixtures on campus by 2025. |
| ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit [ARCHIVED] |
The ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit was the second round of the T-12 to T-8 Lighting Retrofit Project. A total of 33,192 T-12 fixtures were replaced with thinner, more energy effiecient T-8 fixtures. This will incur a total Annual KWh Savings of 5,335,909 hours. Thirty university buildings were involved in this round of the project. The total Simple Payback is estimated to be 1.17. |
| Green Roof on Yeh Student Center NCEL addition |
Utilizing green roof technology helped NCEL to achieve LEED® Silver, the standard in effect when the project was initiated. The materials used include various types of grasses, plants, and other vegetation. When properly built and maintained, green roofs can last as long as 75 years as opposed to a conventional roof life of 15 years. Green roofs lower roof surface temperature, reducing the “urban heat island” effect and creating a cooler microclimate around the building. |
Projects
Project Updates
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8/22/2022The CEE Project Based Learning class is now CEE 190, and has about 240 students this fall. The syllabus is attached here.
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12/13/2021Attached is a project by Abdelrahman Gemeiye, Bruce Moore, Will Moore, and Jocelyn Pytel. This project was detailed the replacement of metal-halide street lights with solar powered LED lights.