Dear Energy Conservation and Building Standards SWATeam,

The iCAP Working Group met today, and would like to thank you for your report!

In the hopes that it will provide some assistance as you formulate your recommendations for the revised iCAP, to be presented at the iCAP Forum on October 22nd, we wanted to provide you with some additional files:

1) A "template" for the iCAP sections that we ask that you use. This was written using Transportation as an example, but it should be easily adaptable.

2) A "resources" document that summarizes the 2010 iCAP strategies, excerpts from a document that was put together back in FY13 summarizing progress at that time, a set of links to relevant pages on the iCAP Portal, and a list of the questions in the STARS report that are relevant to your team.  The STARS report is how our campus gets "graded" on our sustainability performance, so these questions may inspire ideas for things the campus should be doing.

3) A table of performance in your area.  You may wish to fill this in with your proposed goals, and include it in the template.

4) A summary of all of our emissions in different categories, for context.

5) The Clean Air Cool Planet calculator itself, updated for FY2014, in case you wish to dive into how the calculations are performed.

We hope this information will be helpful to your team.  If there is anything we can do to help you with your important work in the coming month, please just ask!

Cheers,

Ben

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Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

Dear Transportation SWATeam,

The iCAP Working Group met today, and would like to thank you for your report!

In the hopes that it will provide some assistance as you formulate your recommendations for the revised iCAP, to be presented at the iCAP Forum on October 22nd, we wanted to provide you with some additional files:

1) A "template" for the iCAP sections that we ask that you use. This was written using Transportation as an example, so it should be easy for you to use!

2) A "resources" document that summarizes the 2010 iCAP strategies, excerpts from a document that was put together back in FY13 summarizing progress at that time, a set of links to relevant pages on the iCAP Portal, and a list of the questions in the STARS report that are relevant to your team.  The STARS report is how our campus gets "graded" on our sustainability performance, so these questions may inspire ideas for things the campus should be doing.

3) A table of emissions in your area as determined by the Clean Air Cool Planet calculator, which represents our officially reported emissions.  You can fill this in with your proposed goals, and include it in the template.

4) A summary of all of our emissions in different categories, for context.

5) The Clean Air Cool Planet calculator itself, updated for FY2014, in case you wish to dive into how the calculations are performed.

We hope this information will be helpful to your team.  If there is anything we can do to help you with your important work in the coming month, please just ask!

Cheers,

Ben

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Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

Dear Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling SWATeam,

The iCAP Working Group met today, and would like to thank you for your report!

In the hopes that it will provide some assistance as you formulate your recommendations for the revised iCAP, to be presented at the iCAP Forum on October 22nd, we wanted to provide you with some additional files:

1) A "template" for the iCAP sections that we ask that you use. This was written using Transportation as an example, but it should be easily adaptable.

2) A "resources" document that summarizes the 2010 iCAP strategies, excerpts from a document that was put together back in FY13 summarizing progress at that time, a set of links to relevant pages on the iCAP Portal, and a list of the questions in the STARS report that are relevant to your team.  The STARS report is how our campus gets "graded" on our sustainability performance, so these questions may inspire ideas for things the campus should be doing.

3) A table of emissions in your area as determined by the Clean Air Cool Planet calculator, which represents our officially reported emissions.  You can fill this in with your proposed goals, and include it in the template.

4) A summary of all of our emissions in different categories, for context.

5) The Clean Air Cool Planet calculator itself, updated for FY2014, in case you wish to dive into how the calculations are performed.

We hope this information will be helpful to your team.  If there is anything we can do to help you with your important work in the coming month, please just ask!

Cheers,

Ben

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Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

Dear Water and Stormwater SWATeam,

The iCAP Working Group met today, and we very much look forward to your updated report on campus progress towards the 2010 iCAP targets.

In the hopes that it will provide some assistance as you formulate your recommendations for the revised iCAP, to be presented at the iCAP Forum on October 22nd, we wanted to provide you with some additional files:

1) A "template" for the iCAP sections that we ask that you use. This was written using Transportation as an example, but it should be easily adaptable.

2) A "resources" document that summarizes the 2010 iCAP strategies, excerpts from a document that was put together back in FY13 summarizing progress at that time, a set of links to relevant pages on the iCAP Portal, and a list of the questions in the STARS report that are relevant to your team.  The STARS report is how our campus gets "graded" on our sustainability performance, so these questions may inspire ideas for things the campus should be doing.

3) A table of water usage.  You can fill this in with your proposed goals, and include it in the template.

4) A summary of all of our emissions in different categories, for context.

5) The Clean Air Cool Planet calculator itself, updated for FY2014, in case you wish to dive into how the calculations are performed.

We hope this information will be helpful to your team.  If there is anything we can do to help you with your important work in the coming month, please just ask!

Cheers,

Ben

--

Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

Dear ALUFS SWATeam,

The iCAP Working Group met today, and we very much look forward to your updated report on campus progress towards the 2010 iCAP targets.

In the hopes that it will provide some assistance as you formulate your recommendations for the revised iCAP, to be presented at the iCAP Forum on October 22nd, we wanted to provide you with some additional files:

1) A "template" for the iCAP sections that we ask that you use. This was written using Transportation as an example, but it should be easily adaptable.

2) A "resources" document that summarizes the 2010 iCAP strategies, excerpts from a document that was put together back in FY13 summarizing progress at that time, a set of links to relevant pages on the iCAP Portal, and a list of the questions in the STARS report that are relevant to your team.  The STARS report is how our campus gets "graded" on our sustainability performance, so these questions may inspire ideas for things the campus should be doing.

3) A table of emissions in your area as determined by the Clean Air Cool Planet calculator, which represents our officially reported emissions. 

You can fill this in with your proposed goals, and include it in the template.

4) A summary of all of our emissions in different categories, for context.

5) The Clean Air Cool Planet calculator itself, updated for FY2014, in case you wish to dive into how the calculations are performed.

We hope this information will be helpful to your team.  If there is anything we can do to help you with your important work in the coming month, please just ask!

Cheers,

Ben

--

Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

The attached file shows the heating degree days for each fiscal year and the Energy Use Intensity.

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Hi Karl,

Wow!  So the weather does seem to have had a big influence here.  I wonder if there's a way to quantify that?  Could we, for example, break out the BTUs spent on steam from the total BTUs, and then consider two metrics: (1) non-steam EUI, and (2) steam EUI per Heating Degree Day? 

This might give us better metrics for our performance?

Thanks so much,

Ben McCall

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From: Helmink, Karl J

Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:07 AM

To: campus-sustainability@illinois.edu; swat-ecbs@dib.illinois.edu

Cc: Marquissee, Mike

Subject: RE: Updated progress report

Yes, Mike Marquissee and Kent presented the data to our Utilities and Energy Services group. This is where the BTU/ sq. ft. and heating degree day charts came from. I assume that Mike's group put these charts together with Kent's oversight.

I am not deeply aware of all of the details that go into the development of these charts.  ( It is pretty complex in my opinion.)

Mike, attached is a copy of the FY 14 year ending updates that came forward from our swat team.  FYI  If you can clarify any of the mentioned items, that might be helpful.

Also, we don't normalize any of the RCx data. One can easily get lost in the numbers, and I prefer to focus on the real meter readings.

Thanks,

Karl Helmink

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All, attached is an analysis overlaying the heating degree days with the EUI.  The reported EUI is not normalized for weather changes. - Mike Marquissee

Hello Sustainability Ambassadors,

This is a friendly reminder that the second Certified Green Office Meeting is tomorrow Sept. 25, 10am-11am in Room 210 Illini Union. We will be talking about techniques to achieve extra credits within the waste reduction and promoting sustainability in meetings and events categories. Please RSVP here. We will also be serving light refreshments and coffee. 

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. 

Thanks,

Nishant Makhijani

From: Rajagopalan, Nandakishore [mailto:nrajagop@illinois.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:29 AM
To: swat-water@dib.illinois.edu
Subject: This aternon meeting

In the interests of making the most of our time, here are my top line goals. The first one is based on Lance Schideman suggestion. Three and four are again based on Lance and Marys suggestions.

We might even want to suggest a water reuse goal with timelines. Not sure what the basis would be but if we want a zero water campus, we can calculate precipitation over some area and assume that it satisfies a portion of our needs; the rest would come from reuse (both effluent as well as stormwater). The stormwater could be integrated with landscape and will be the residual after accounting for evapotranspirtion.

Any water features as part of the landscape would then be integrated with heat sink needs as campus, possibly creating an year-round landscape, maybe even a temperate rainforest in the Mid-west!

Goals

1. Overall reduction
   
   1. in line with ICAP 2010
   2. Normalized levels of 20,000 gallons per weighted campus user in 2020 and 16500 gallons per weighted campus user by 2025
   3. Normalized  levels of 42 gallons per total buildings sq. ft (buildings + laboratory space) by and 36 gallons per sq. ft. in 2025 (question to Stephanie on these numbers)
2. Undertake bottoms-up approach to estimate end-use for campus using best practices to determine realistic goals achievable by water conservation alone
3. Recognize water reuse as an essential component to continue reductions in fresh water demand on campus beyond 2025; initiate planning activities to increase water reuse on campus 
4. Integrate the physical and natural elements of campus topography to reduce water demand on campus and facilitate reuse

N. Rajagopalan PhD

Associate Director/Illinois Pollution Prevention Scientist

Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

Prairie Research Institute

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

Thank you for the great report, Warren (and SWATeam). I am very impressed. I added some comments and sent Warren some data on the building-servicing by the WTS. If you have any questions, contact me.

Cheers,
Marcus

Marcus Ricci, MS, MUP
Building Energy Specialist, Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC)

Attached here are the agenda and other relevant materials for the September 25, 2014 meeting of the iCAP Working Group.

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• PEI bought 20,000,000 kwh for FY15. 
• They are MISO Wind RECs. 
• Without Petascale, this represents 5.28% of projected electricity demand. 
• Including Petascale, this represents 4.25% of projected electricity demand.  
• A half year of the solar farm would bring this up to 5%.
• The REC cost was $ 1.25 / MWH for a total of $27,000.

see file

Here is an example of unit costs for various replacements at the University of Connecticut late 2007. The estimates were by a plumbing firm. Says costs = material +labor

see file

Dear Keith and Water Team:

Here is a link to Sustainable Sites Initiative, now called SITES rating system. SITES has a long history, but the short story is that this is a robust and leading tool for advancing landscape performance. It not only a tool but also a certification program. It is/will be adopted by USGBC to inform the sites credits for LEED. In many ways, it was a response to LEED really not getting at the potential for site systems themselves. It could be added to iCAP's recommendations for renovations and new construction. 

Just as with LEED, it went through some growing pains, particularly challenging was documenting pre-design conditions to demonstrate performance and sustainability improvement. After multiple years of pilot projects and testing, version 2 has just been released. It can be used with or without a building or other structure within the site, making it a great tool for our campus. 

A colleague of mine at Conservation Design Forum in Elmhurst, IL has been a key participant in its development, and he would be a fantastic additional to our external consultant group. 

http://www.sustainablesites.org

Thanks, see you tomorrow,

Mary Pat

Mary Pat Mattson, RLA, ASLA

Assistant Professor : Department of Landscape Architecture

College of Fine and Applied Arts : UIUC

611 Taft Drive, Champaign IL 61820