Business students worked on a fictitious energy dashboard company and created the attached marketing plan.  This document includes insight about potential behavior change strategies for the campus.

Saving energy pays off for Christopher Hall

Clayton Glazik 3/5/2014

Since we were little our parents have told us to turn off the lights after we leave a room. That is just what the Christopher Hall residents at the University of Illinois did in 2013. By shutting the lights off in rooms not in use, switching their lights to compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, as well as other sustainable practices, the building was able to cut back its energy usage by 30.6% from the previous year.

The campus Facilities & Services (F&S) hosted a reception at Christopher Hall on February 14 to celebrate the building’s accomplishment in the F&S Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP). A campus-wide sustainability effort, ECIP provides building upgrades to facilities that produce top energy conservation results in energy advancement and occupant action categories. ECIP calculates how much money the buildings are saving in energy reduction and gives it back to the building to pay for upgrades.

Christopher Hall, which houses the Family Resiliency Center (FRC), the Autism Program (TAP), several classrooms, faculty and staff offices, and a family research home, saved nearly $22,000. According to FRC Director Barbara Fiese, a building committee recommended investing the funds in a bike rack since so many people cycle to work, as well as other items that can further reduce energy usage.

In 2010, the University of Illinois published a climate action plan that set aggressive timeliness for reducing energy consumption on campus. Currently, there are more than 300 such active projects, which can be tracked at http://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/projects.

“At the end of the day, if we really want to meet ICAP goals, we have to do more,” says Al Stratman, F&S executive director. “That is why we came up with ECIP, which mirrors the campus goals.”

At the award ceremony, faculty and students pledged to continue reducing energy in their lifestyles by taking public transportation, using natural light in their offices rather than electricity, and shopping more at local food markets instead of commercial grocery stores. With their current sustainable practices and these recent pledges, Christopher Hall will continue slashing their energy consumption, making the Illinois campus a greener place.

(from Family Resiliency Center news http://illinois.edu/lb/article/3493/82438)

The first formal meeting with the Student Sustainability Leadership Council (SSLC) under iSEE's guidance was an introductory meeting about iSEE and the proposed iCAP SWATeams. 

The meeting was called by and coordinated by:

• Ben McCall – Associate Director for Campus Sustainability, iSEE
• Madhu Khanna – Associate Director for Education and Outreach, iSEE
• Nishant Makhijani – iSEE Intern, Vice - Chair Student Sustainability Committee

The key points discussed included an overview of iSEE's goals and structure, education and outreach plans, and an overview of the SWATeams.

The University Libraries department of facilities is launching a small feasibility study to determine weather it would be cost effective to use bikes as a materials transportation medium. 

Alex Bragg, Distribution Clerk

The Travel Management Office is responsible for coordinating business travel through OBFS.  They can be reached by phone at 217-333-6583 and 888-872-9953, and email is tmo@uillinois.edu.

Ken Merrill gave an example of paper purchases:

This year he has purchased 33,500 reams of virgin paper, 1073 reams with 30% recycled content, and 180 with 100% recycled content.  The means for this year 96.4 of the paper purchased through Central Stores has no recycled content. 

• Computer purchasing commitment for EPEAT products does not exist although some colleges may have one.
• Vendor Code of Conduct – Ken does not know of one.
• Environmental Indicators for purchasing – None other than possibly regarding diversity.
• Uses Life-Cycle Analysis – No
• Incorporate disposal costs into the product costs – No
• Minimum recycling standards – No
• Green Cleaning Products – Yes, everything is green seal certified

He said he was happy to purchase whatever the units want, but they have to want it.

Slides will play on all 3 working digital displays at BIF. Unfortunately, we're having hardware issues with the display facing the Sixth Street entrance. The IlliniEnergy images will take up the entire interactive region of the digital display. However, the images will not take up the space on the footer and right-hand portion of the display, as we already have student groups scheduled to run information on those spaces.

Images will run through December 20. We would be happy to keep a small number of the slides in the rotation after December 20.