Campus is investigating continued participation in Second Nature's Carbon Credit Purchasing Program (C2P2) for the duration of the ten-year (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2021) verified carbon reduction program from UIUC.

The Certified Green Office Program (CGOP) under iSEE is going to be revamped and relaunched in the spring 2017 semester.

The Certified Green Office Program (CGOP) under iSEE is going to be revamped and relaunched in the spring 2017 semester.

The Water and Stormwater SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, 

"Monitoring the water usage in the Business Instructional Facility (BIF). Specifically, both the total water use and the amount of water used by the raw water system should be measured and the data made available to the campus community.

BIF is unique in that it was constructed with a separate raw water system that conveys non-potable water to be used for purposes such as flushing toilets. While the system is in place inside the building, it was never connected to an outside source of non-potable water. Use of non-potable water for purposes such as toilet flushing, landscape irrigation, cooling, etc. is recognized as a sustainable practice (e.g., Asano et al, 2007; EPA, 2012). Data to quantify the impact this could have on water use at UIUC, however, is largely unavailable. Metering the raw water system at BIF would provide data about the temporal total and non-potable water demand at a typical campus class/office building. These data would be valuable to consider whether such systems should be considered in future campus construction and renovation.

F&S installed a temporary meter to measure the flow to the raw water system and operated this meter for approximately one month (April – May 2016), so this recommendation has already been demonstrated to be feasible. However, because building usage is highly variable over the course of an academic year, we recommend that this should be a permanent installation. We also recommend that the data be made available to the campus community to encourage consideration of such water reuse options."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation Water001 BIF Greywater Meter complete with comments from all the Water and Stormwater SWATeam.

The Water and Stormwater SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating,

"We recommend that a small tonnage (< 700 tons cooling capacity) stand-alone cooling tower on campus operating at a water concentration cycle of less than 2.5 be operated using softened water under high pH/high silica conditions to demonstrate near zero blowdown operation."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation, Water002 Cooling Tower Increase COC, complete with comments from all the Water and Stormwater SWATeam members.

The Water and Stormwater SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating,

"We recommend that the Siebel Design Center should be designed to include plumbing to supply non-potable water to be used for toilet flushing. The system could be connected to the potable water supply until such time as a viable non-potable source (e.g., the campus raw-water lines) is available. At that time the non-potable lines could be connected to the non-potable source at a small expense. We also recommend that a meter be installed to monitor the amount of water delivered to the non-potable system and that these data be made available on the Dashboard operated by Facilities and Services."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation, Water003 Design Center Greywater Piping, complete with comments from all the Water and Stormwater SWATeam members.

Previous Project Name: Direct Campus Contributions

Previous Project Description: Campus can directly allocate funds to sustainability projects.

Previous project name: Charge True Costs to Campus Users including Carbon Offsets

Previous project description: Several externalities exist for campus operations and business practices, and these are not fully captured in the every-day cost charged to campus users.  For example, purchasing an item from the iBuy system does not include the cost of disposal for that item in the future.

The original iCAP Portal included a robust Funding tracking system, as described in the attached document. This tracking became too cumbersome and the iCAP Portal Administrators decided to leave the financial tracking to the University’s Banner Financial System instead of working to replicate it in the iCAP Portal.

See the Funding tracking system in the attached files.

Meeting Minutes 12-02-16

-          Lily Wilcox proposes new recommendation to build bike parking cages in new parking decks. Proposal was submitted to iCap Working Group

-          Concerns:

o   Will faculty really use this? Most faculty drive to campus; will they use bikes to get from building to building?

o   Price is $100 per semester per bike. Price seems too high, and we’re not sure it is worth it for a cheap bike. Also, we are not sure if students would be willing to pay that much. We must look at what pricing options we can come up with.

-          Benefits:

o   Overall, proposal was very well received by team.

o   Other universities, such as the University of Wisconsin, have similar bike parking and Lily says they are happy with it.

o   A survey showed that there is some student interest in $25 permit student pricing.

o   This would help the problem of abandoned bikes on campus.

-          Other Comments:

o   This proposal would focus on new parking decks being built, but it would also be possible to retrofit old ones.

o   Having shower rooms in the new parking decks would help so people do not have to be sweaty after riding their bike.

Spring meetings: Fridays at 1pm, about once every two weeks.

The projected total electrical consumption for FY17 is 462,793 MWh.

The ECBS SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, "The ECBS SWATeam recommends funding a full-time Green Labs Coordinator position. The coordinator would implement, with the help of students, a Green Labs Program. Major components of the program would include energy conservation through analysis of fume hood usage (needs and possible consolidation), a Shut the Sash fume hood initiative, freezer and refrigerator management, space efficiency and utilization, water conservation, recycling (e.g., batteries, Styrofoam) and collaboration and education of effective energy efficiency and sustainable methods for management of lab chemicals and hazardous waste disposal."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation ECONS004 Green Labs Coordinator complete with comments from all the ECBS SWATeam members.

At the ECBS SWATeam meeting on November 28, the results of "Illini Lights Out" project, occured on November 17, were discussed. ECBS SWATeam Green Labs Coordinator recommendation was considered as ready for the submission. Possible participation in the 2017 North American Laboratory Freezer Challenge from January to May 2017 was considered. Upcoming public forums on the ongoing design updates to the Urbana campus Master Plan-November 29 and November 30.