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  1. on campus distribution locations

    Associated Project(s): 

    Champaign-Urbana Area Bicycle Map
    Distribution Locations on the Illinois Campus

    University Locations

    Campus Parking:
    Public Safety Building, MC-241
    1110 Springfield Ave., Suite 201
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Campus Police:
    Safety Day
    September 11, 2008

    Campus Recreation
    Campus Recreation Center East
    Activities Recreation Center

    McKinley Health Center
    1109 S. Lincoln Ave.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Illini Union Bookstore
    809 S. Wright Street
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Undergraduate Library
    1402 West Gregory
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Illini Union
    1401 West Greet Street
    Urbana, IL 61801

    International Student and Scholar Services
    400 Student Services Building
    610 E. John
    Champaign, IL 

    Turner Student Services
    Front Desk or Third Floor (Dean of Students)
    610 East John
    Champaign, IL 61801

    Alice Campbell Alumni Center
    601 South Lincoln Ave.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    University Housing

    Allen Hall front desk
    1005 W. Gregory Drive
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Busey/Evans Hall front desk
    111 W. Nevada Street
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Townsend Hall front desk
    918 West Illinois St.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Wardell Hall front desk
    1012 West Illinois St.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Trelease Hall front desk
    901 College Ct.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Oblesby Hall front desk
    1005 College Ct.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Babcock-Carr Hall front desk
    1001 W. Pennsylvania Ave.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Blaisdell-Sunders Hall front desk
    901 W. Pennsylvania Ave.
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Weston Hall front desk
    204 E. Peabody Drive
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Taft-Van Doren Hall front desk
    1213 South Fourth Street
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Barton and Lundgren Halls front desk
    1205 South Fourth Street
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Forbes Hall front desk
    101 East Gregory Drive
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Garner Hall front desk
    201 East Gregory Drive
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Hopkins Hal front desk
    103 East Gregory Drive
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Orchard Downs front desk (Family and Graduate Housing)
    1841 Orchard Place
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Sherman Hall front desk
    909 South Fifth Street
    Champaign, Il 61820

    Daniels Hall front desk
    1010 West Green Street
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Private Certified Housing

    Armory House
    1010 South Second
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Bromley Hall
    910 South Third
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Europa House
    802 West Oregon
    Urbana, IL 61820

    Illini Tower
    409 East Chalmers
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Newman Center
    604 East Armory Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Presby Hall
    405 East John
    Champaign, IL 61820

    Cultural Houses

    Asian American Cultural Center
    1210 West Nevada Street
    Urbana, IL 61801

    Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
    708 South Mathews
    Urbana, IL 61801

  2. Press Release - 2014 Bike Map released

    Associated Project(s): 

    Champaign County Bikes (CCB) announces “Go by Bike”, the latest version of its Champaign-Urbana-Savoy Bicycle Guide and Map. CCB will begin making it available through local bicycle shops, City and Park District offices, and public libraries. In addition, the map will be distributed by the University of Illinois to students, faculty and staff as well as at CU-MTD’s Illinois Terminal. The map will also be available at Urbana’s Market at the Square, Sat., Sept. 27, from 7am - 12pm.

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  3. ActGreen joins Eco-Olympics efforts

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    Hello,

    My name is Rachel Jacoby. I am the Philanthropy Chair for ActGreen, the first green business organization at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. We are interested in co-sponsoring this event by promoting it on our social media sites, providing volunteers, and helping to organize it. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.

    Best,

    Rachel Jacoby

  4. Materials from iWG

    Dear Energy Generation, Purchasing, and Distribution 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

    --

    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

     

  5. Materials from iWG

    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

    --

    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

     

  6. Materials from iWG

    Associated Project(s): 

    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

    --

    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

     

  7. Materials from iWG

    Associated Project(s): 

    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

    --

    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

     

  8. Materials from iWG

    Associated Project(s): 

    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

     

  9. Materials from iWG

    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

     

  10. FY14 Heating Degree Days and EUI

    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

     

  11. Meeting #2 coming up

    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

  12. agenda for meeting

    Associated Project(s): 

    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

     

  13. comments on draft from Marcus Ricci

    Associated Project(s): 

    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 Files: 
  14. iWG agenda packet

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