The Energy iCAP team met on Monday 3/27/23 to discuss recommendations on energy standards for newly constructed buildings and improving communication of energy research on campus between labs and the broader campus community.
View the recording: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_9vmyh6sl
The following text is taken from the February iSEE Newsletter, which is attached below.
USGBC offers information on LEED Certification Fees. This includes information on the initial flat registration fee, rates for certification fees, member discounts, policies, and more.
Visit the USGBC website to read more about LEED Certification Fees.
From: Lewis, Brent C
To Trimble, Sydney M; White, Morgan
Recipients: sydneyt2 at illinois.edu; mbwhite at illinois.edu
Hi Sydney and Morgan,
Renewable energy at the UI "How much power is each of the renewable (University of Illinois) sources generating? How many houses can each provide power for? Are there plans to add more than what we currently have? How many years does it take for the cost of each to be paid off? We have a growing interest in this and many homes now also have this."
Morgan White, the UI's associate director of Facilities & Services for sustainability, has all your answers.
The Facilities Standards for LEED certification are getting updated to reflect LEED V.4. and to include resources for specific LEED points.
There is a LEED green associate training program offerred on campus at https://leadinggreen.com/Illinois/.
The new version of LEED (v.4) requires shower facilities for bicyclists as a pre-requisite. The LEED point is described online at https://www.usgbc.org/credits/neighborhood-development-plan-neighborhood-development/v4-draft/sllc4.
See attached the report "Influence of LEED on Water Consumption & Cost: Business Instructional Facility vs. Undergraduate Library" as submitted by Lucia Dunderman, Dustin Frye and Olivia Yu for their project in ENVS301.
The previous project description began with this statement: "The University has adopted LEED Gold certification as a part of their design standards on all new construction." However, the Facility Standards and the Campus Master Plan were not aligned with each other. During the update to the Facility Standards and update to the Campus Master Plan in 2017, the campus leadership determined that the appropriate requirement for new construction buildings is LEED Silver, to comply with minimum state legal requirements.
The 2010 iCAP included a focused effort on the use of LEED Certification to incorporate sustainable design in new capital construction on campus. In the 2015 iCAP, campus sustainability advocates recognized that "While the utilization of current building certification programs such as LEED has helped raise awareness of sustainable building standards, the campus could accelerate progress in reducing building energy use by shifting to performance based building standards for new buildings and major renovations." The 2010 iCAP LEED goals are documented here, for the archive.
Wassaja Hall became the campus’ 11th facility to receive LEED® certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in February. The University of Illinois is a national leader in green building design with more than 2.4M GSF on campus.
On the agenda at the ECBS SWATeam meeting:
1) Follow up from April 14 Illini Lights Out;
2) Reports from success of Eco-Olympics;
3) Continued discussions on Karl’s work with ACES and other buildings;
4) Energy efficiency standard for UIUC;
5) Dr. Ximing Cai, new Associate Director for Campus Sustainability came to meet the team;
6) SWATeam next meeting time and date: May 11th, from 3:30 to 5 pm.
On the agenda at the ECBS SWATeam meeting:
1) Report from Karl on projects he has been working on:
a) Enterprise Works - proposed revolving loan project. Awaiting departmental funding of $350K to complete project.
b) Memorial Stadium RCx work - This appears to be getting $500K in funding.
c) National Soybean Research space walk preview.
2) Discussion on LEED requirements as iCAP goal
3) BIF lighting follow up
4) Final planning for ILO on Friday, April 14
5) Updates:
a) Eco-Olympics
The LEED transportation credit for encouraging low emission vehicles can be obtained if there are dedicated spaces for low-emission vehicles near the building in question. In general, the University is not adding new parking spaces for new buildings, so it is difficult to achieve this LEED point. One method is to add a Zipcar space for the building, and another is to add an Electric Vehicle charging station. Grant Colella, a Project Manager at F&S, suggested a long-term plan to change all of the campus fleet to low emission vehicles, so the dedicated service vehicle spaces would also
Bousfield Hall LEED® Certified: Bousfield Hall, which opened in Fall 2013, became the third university facility to achieve LEED Platinum status, the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest certification level, joining the Business Instructional Facility and Lincoln Hall.
The rennovation of the State Farm Center (previously known as the Assembly Hall) will seek LEED Gold certification. One item that this includes is the prerequisite that the building have indoor recycling bins placed throughout the facility. This will be a nice follow up to the first Zero Waste Game Day event our campus held in Spring 2014.
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The Natural History Building renovation will include LEED certification. Preliminary intentions for this effort are shown in the attached document.
