Mario,

EMS Controls (David Hardin’s group) is working on a controls upgrade at Micro Nano. I am trying to connect Ayush (cc’d) with someone who can discuss the engineering on the ESCO project and potential ECM’s that were evaluated but ultimately not included in the project. Are you a good contact for this or should I reach out to GBA (Mike/Tim)?

Thanks,

Amber Perfetti

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Amber,

I think Mike would be best.  I don’t have access to any of the work we did with ESG.  Maybe Jim C can help as well ?

Mario Zotta P.E.

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Hey Amber,

Thanks for getting this conversation started. Can you share Mike and Jim’s email ID’s? I can try contacting them.

Thank you,

Ayush

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Dear Jim and Mike,

EMS Controls (David Hardin’s group) is working on a controls upgrade project at Micro Nano. Is there someone with whom we can discuss the potential ECM’s that were evaluated but ultimately not included in the ESCO project?

Thank you,

Ayush Gupta

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Ayush: 

Jim and I will circle our wagons next week and get together with you by the  weeks end.

Michael J. McDermott

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Thank you, sir. That would be great.

Regards,

Ayush

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Ayush:

I was able to reach out to Deon Collins and review the 2014 ESG Unfunded list, 2011 VFA Deferred maintenance back log and 2012 Cannon MEP Condition Assessment.    We were able to start a preliminary list of energy conservation measures/deferred maintenance items for consideration:

1. Add DDC control for three (3) existing humidifiers - $30,000
2. DDC upgrade for AHU-18, 19 and 20 - $225,000
3. Replace AHU-15 (16,000 cfm ) & 16 (21,600 cfm) (Alternate 3) - $700,000
4. Replace AHU-13 (16,000 cfm) and AHU-14 and add Heat Recovery (Alternate 4) – $2.9 million
5. Main building steam valve replacement (ECM-8)- $200,000
6. Pipe Insulation (ECM-10)- 125,000
7. Active Media Filtration (ECM-15)- $800,000
8. Main Building Chilled Water Valve Replacement - $60,000
9. New Building DDC upgrade
10. New Building southwest section Lab Upgrade and VAV conversion
11. E-17A & B (25,600 cfm each) – Replace exhaust fan and move to roof - $1,200,000
12. E-18A&B (10,600 cfm each) – Replace exhaust fan and move to roof - $600,000
13. High Efficiency Fume hood and VAV conversion upgrade
14. Heat recovery Chiller
15. Acid, Solvent and Special Gas Scrubber Replacement – $700,000
16. Replace chilled water system - $221,000
17. Replace steam and Condensate - $108,700
18. Replace AHU-9(22,000 cfm) , AHU-10 (22,000 cfm), AHU-11 (5,200 CFM) , AHU-12(8,000 cfm) , and AHU-17(34,000 cfm) - $1,600,000
19. Replace ventilation systems for AHU-11 and AHU-17 - $720,000
20. Replace AHU-1,2 3,4 &5 - $1,500,000
21. Replace general exhaust EF-5 - $20,000
22. Domestic hot water heater-$200,000
23. Acid waste system – $325,000
24. Process water system - $300,000
25. Vacuum system - $220,000
26. Emergency power system- $300,000
27. Exit lighting – $25,000
28. Lighting control systems - $250,000
29. Exterior Lighting- $20,000

Call if you have any questions.  

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Hey David,

Below is the list of unfunded ECMs and deferred maintenance items that were considered but not acted upon by ESCO.

Thank you,

Ayush

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Ayush,

This is useful information and provides a starting point.

Thanks

Hey everyone,

Here is some info from Mike McDermott from their ESCO review.

Thanks

Hi Tony,

I met with folks from Housing yesterday about incorporating sustainability into RA training. Eric and Daphne were also on the call. We identified a few approaches for sharing content. I now need your help developing the materials.

One approach is to provide a short (3 min max) video for RAs to view, followed by questions to assess learning. As a framework, I suggest we use the sustainability guide that the interns developed with Meredith (attached). Do you have any video content that would be appropriate? The student training video is too long, but hits all the highlights. Is this something you could shorten? We need to send the video by mid/late June.

A second approach is to provide content for a microlearning session that would pair with the facilities session. They prefer a mixed mode approach, i.e., not just lecture/slides. We need to provide the content within the next two weeks. Is this doable? I shared the sustainability guide with them and am awaiting feedback.

A third approach is to distribute materials during the RA resource fair, which is held August 10th.

Finally, Housing is open to sharing information via their “Housing Insider” newsletter and digital platforms. It would be great to have your help developing content for those.  

Let me know what you think and we can also touch base at the management meeting today.

Thanks,

Jen

Hi Madhu and Ehab,

FYI, Students for Environmental Concerns is requesting Student Sustainability Committee funding ($1,000.00) to develop a database of U of I investments, in relationship to divestment. 

Madhu, this is sponsored by Yu-Feng Lin at PRI, but I don’t think he is aware of the history in these discussions.  Perhaps you would like to reach out to Yu-Feng, or touch base with Susan Martinis?  (I don’t know if small scale projects come through iSEE for funding approvals or only larger budget projects.)

Thanks,

Morgan

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Just circling back on this – I did discuss this with Susan and will be meeting with Yu-Feng and Praveen Kumar to give them the background on this.

Thanks

Madhu

Done:

• Added last updated date on Project page
• Project page:
  • Changed "Project History" heading to "Recent Project Updates"
  • Changed "View all project progress »" more link to "View all project updates »"
• Removed user & date/time from search results
• Added tracking date type (FY, monthly, etc.) to legend (e.g. Pedestrian and Bicycle Counts)

Discussion:

• Map marker popup display question (e.g. Energy theme map)
  
• Question about a TODO: "Collections page: Add image upload option". At a previous meeting we had this TODO, but what was the context? Was it to have a thumbnail for each Collection? Or a banner image?
• Should we link to "Take Action" project from homepage?
• Archiving projects
  • Add "Archived" checkbox?
  • Add "Archived" to Visibility options?
  • Add "Archived" to Project Status options? (probably not - this mixes the status of the project itself with whether we still want it to show up on the site)
  • Remove from nested listings, still publicly available?

TODO:

• Metric search/display:
  • Search text
  • Theme (via connected Project, i.e. Theme -> Project -> Metric)
  • Most recent updates as of: (list of years) -> can we query Tracking data?
  • (Internal only) Last updated before (list of years) -> can we query Tracking data?
• (Low Priority) Make column headers click-sortable on Projects by Project Status page
• Permissions:
  • Metric Tracking:
    • Add/update: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, iCAP Advocates
    • Delete: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, NOT iCAP Advocates
  • Metric Targets:
    • Add/update: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, NOT iCAP Advocates
    • Delete: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, NOT iCAP Advocates
• Fancy project layout mockups - keep tweaking #3 to improve contrast
• Discuss metrics
  • Metrics with lots of data
  • Consider how to handle old metrics that no longer track new data. Archive somehow?
  • Fun with math (e.g. combining multiple metrics)
  • Calculated Metrics on Dev site