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Hi everyone,
After day 1 we have drilled to a depth of 90 feet. This is excellent progress with snow much of the day, and not getting in the ground until late morning.
So far, the geology is similar to previous drilling in the area (see log attached).
Cheers,
Andy
Attached are the draft meeting minutes from the iWG meeting that was held on December 6th, 2018. Minutes will be finalized at the upcoming February 7th, 2019 iWG meeting.
Ideas for recommendation related to post-consumer waste reduction, recommendations to continue in Spring semester
All, Winter is upon us! Visitor numbers are still relatively high, considering the cold weather, which is a great sign. We have one student in every week who’s still plugging away at his B-a-B. Most others have abandoned them and I have had the staff reclaim them as shop builds.
Last week I finished and delivered the bike that’ll be raffled off at the Staff Appreciation Week. I worked up a checklist for the future days when I’ll need the student staff to run open hours for me. Safety checked a few more bikes and worked on inventory.
This week I’ll need to begin looking at reallocating space for how many shop builds we have. Most of the front area of the shop is all for-sale bikes so now we’ll need to start a row in the back.
I’ll also be getting in touch with VeoRide about a possible partnership for getting more people on bikes.
The numbers:
Visitors: 58
Sales: $61
Memberships: 1 for $30
Thanks!
Evan De Lucia and Mohamed Attalla approved $65,610 of funding from the Carbon Credit Sales Fund for a Geothermal Characterization/Monitoring Station at John Bardeen Quad.
An email of approval is attached below.
The project proposal is attached below.
| Recruited organization team, dinner with Hillel, working on getting sponsors for the spring comptetition |
| Be part of the Freezer Challenge, send emails, help promote |
| Move forwad with FAR and ISR called Grinder energy, ship it to sanitary district to make energy, move towards all dining halls |
| Ikenberry: Informaiton system, weigh waste and display in real time, scale and digital display, update on website, competition based on other schools |
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Producing 25000 lbs. of tomatoes, now have classes there looking to work with university to teach about plants! economically sustaining our own building, looking to expand to a new location! Strong producer for the campus, and excited to grow more! |
| Largely completed, ongoing main |
| Very Well, Student intern keeps plants going, native prairie plants on south side of building, front and courtyard, woodland garden, northeast corner |
| FS mows it every years, little weeding |
| suffering from invasion of violets, thought given to aiding those plants |
| Coming along well, over 3 years, removed invasive honey suckle, so thick you could not walk though the woods, removing other invasive plants, put out seeds and seedlings to other native plants, used as outdoor lab for variety of classes |
All, No big news for the last week. We had Thanksgiving break and were closed all last week. The week prior was pretty slow, too.
Biggest news: Yesterday the shop was staffed by the student workers and they appear to have done a fantastic job. The shop is clean and organized, they tallied and tracked visitors and volunteer time nicely. No trouble. Next up will be training the staff to run hours when I’m not here in the summer when it’s really busy. I don’t have the infrastructure in place to do that yet but we’ll get there.
This week I’ll be delivering the bike we built for Campus Recreation’s Student Staff Appreciation Week, building shop bikes, and working on documenting skills training and assessment for the student staff so that I’ll be able to better track their progress and abilities to do the job going forward.
Visitors: 45
Sales: $101
Memberships: 2 for $60
Misc. used parts: 7 for $41
Thanks!
All, Slow last week, as to be expected.
Currently have 8 bikes for sale with a couple more queued up. Should have about 15 ready to go by end of the week.
Instead of having student workers build bikes piecemeal, this week I’ll try having each staffer be responsible for a bike—basically just a B-a-B but for sale. The hope here is that it will be a more holistic and teachable situation seeing a bike through from start to finish, just as the B-a-B program is. I tried this with one staffer last week and he was noticeably more engaged and hustling by the end, trying to get the bike done. It’ll help that we won’t have to figure out “what’s been done?” when each staffer comes in for their shift, too.
This week will be building bikes, organizing, and drafting student staff training guides.
The numbers:
Visitors: 62
Sales: $235.50
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tire/tubes: 4 for $25
Thanks!
The attached map shows the proposed location for the geothermal monitoring well on the Bardeen Quad.
All, Last week was quite slow, as the sales numbers confirm. It’s been great to be able to keep the student staff on even as we slow down as I can train them better. Running through repairs and assembly of some of the more intricate bicycle componentry is a boon to them and myself—more skilled student workers makes for a better shop experience for all.
Big news of the week: Warehouse is empty of bikes—finally! This morning I’ll head over there to sweep up the last of the debris and straighten up. Working Bikes was thankful for the donations and some of the bikes are already in El Salvador and others will make their way to Lesotho, South Africa. A big thanks to Hank, Rick, Rafael, Todd, and APO for their assistance loading bikes.
This week I’ll be moving on hiring 2-3 more student workers, building bikes, ordering, inventory, and shop design/organization.
The numbers:
Visitors: 62
Sales: $139.00
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tire/tubes: 4 for $15
Thanks!
Jake Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Manager
Hi Becky,
As I mentioned yesterday at the Sustainability Celebration, we have developed HTML web pages for embedding into FourWinds digital signage so you can demonstrate or monitor your daily and weekly electricity usage. Here at the physical plant building, we have them built into a frame that toggles between the two web pages. You have to create a frame with a titel like “Electricity Usage – Illini Union”, embed the html, and then add a button to switch between the two sites. Unfortunately, the person who did this for us has moved to another job, so I can’t help you on the FourWinds programming. But I know that there are ways to display web pages. Here are the links to the pages we created for the Illini Union. We’d really like to see you guys put something like this up on your digital signage.
Day version:
https://ednaweb.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/IUnion/graph.html
Week Version:
https://ednaweb.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/IUnion/graph.html?week
If you would like more information, feel free to give me a call over here at F&S.
Mike Marquissee
Director – Budget and Planning Resources
Utilites and Energy Services Division
Facilities and Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Last week was really relaxed in the shop. I’ve been able to dedicate some time to training the student staff a little better. Having them strip and build bikes is good repetition and practice for them.
Tuesday was the Bike Shipping Event, which did not go as planned. Working Bikes wasn’t able to get their big container down here so they only took 260 bikes. That was compounded by a poor showing of volunteers to help. Most of the loading was done by two Working Bikes people and myself, which was tiring. By the second half, we had 5 or 6 people to help.
On Friday, Todd and I pulled about 60 bikes out of the warehouse. We should have it all cleared by end-of-week.
I interviewed two students last week as well. I have another interview tomorrow.
This week is the aforementioned job interview, as well as an iCap interview with someone from Sustainability. Mornings will be loading bikes at the warehouse and most shop hours will be spent teaching the staff more bike skills now that it’s slow.
The numbers:
Visitors: 73
Sales: $430.25
Memberships: 4 for $120
Bikes (B-a-B): 2 for $40*
Tires/tubes: 10 for $84
*B-a-B pricing are now itemized to reflect the cost of new parts so TBP can keep better track of stock and sales of new parts. B-a-Bs aren’t cheaper, they’re just recorded as the base price only.
Thanks!
Attached are the meeting minutes from the iWG meeting that was held on October 26th, 2018.
