Morgan Johnston met with Seth Rients and Luis Rodriguez to hear a presentation about the IMEC waste tracking system.  The system could be installed on campus dumpsters, along with corresponding scales on the garbage and recycling trucks.  This would be an automated data collection method for tracking the waste stream inputs at a macro level.

From: Mast, Joyce C
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:32 AM
To: Beverage, McKenzie; Johnston, Morgan B
Subject: RE: ECE Solar Installation Status Update

McKenzie,

Thank you for checking with me about the status of the Solar Installation on the North Parking Garage. I expect that no funds will be spent on the SSC account before the end of the fiscal year. We need results from the feasibility study for placing the panels on the North Parking Garage roof before we will be spending money on the panels or installation.  The study is to be officially completed by September 6, 2013, but we expect to  have drawings and plans by July. This will give us enough information to seek more matching funds so that the panels may be installed in time for the July 2014 completion date for the new building.  

Best regards,

Joyce Mast

Seth Rients and Morgan Johnston met to review the scope of the work requested by F&S.  Seth noted that it would be great to have scales in trucks and a system for tracking where the waste materials are generated.  They also discussed the methodology details.  Where could the waste be sorted and weighed for each building?  Can each dumpster be collected individually during the week or two of the audit for that location and driven to the sorting site?  What level of sorting do we need to meet our plans?

Mckenzie Beverage sent the award letter to Morgan Johnston with the account information.

The first flush of both red currants and raspberries ripened up this past week, and we were able to harvest our first calories from the WPP Research Site. Once yield and nutrition data are collected, all crops from the site, including the berries harvested this spring, are sold to University Dining Services for use in both catered campus events as well as the student dining halls. When sufficient quantitates are available, WPP crops will also be sold at the Sustainable Student Farm market stand on the quad side of the Illini Union (Thursdays, 11am-5pm).

There are still plenty more raspberries to come this summer, as well as a solid crop of black currants and grapes!

Roadmap to a Green Campus – www.centerforgreenschools.org/roadmap

The Roadmap is a strategy guide for using the LEED green building certification program as a framework for developing and evolving campus-wide sustainability plans. Contained within the 100+ page document are more than 100 tools and resources to support campuses in their greening efforts and more than 20 unique profiles of college and university success stories. The guide was created with the support of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Hands-on LEED: Guiding College Student Engagement, www.centerforgreenschools.org/handsonleed

This document speaks exclusively about the role students can play supporting green building projects and how they can contribute to LEED certification efforts. The guidance outlines three options for engaging students - course work, internships and volunteer opportunities. It details the benefits of involving students and outlines ways to initiate the process of developing an engagement program, such as planning considerations and LEED-related activities and tasks that students can perform.

The Paid-from-Savings Guide to Green Existing Buildings

http://centerforgreenschools.org/paidfromsavings

The Paid-From-Savings Guide to Green Existing Buildings provides information to help building facilities managers and energy service companies (ESCOs) leverage utility cost savings to fund comprehensive green building retrofits. The resource provides detailed information on how to ag­gregate green improvement measures to optimize project economics and achieve LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance certification.

Campus Implementation Workbook (attached)

The Campus Implementation Workbook is designed with three goals in mind. To assist university and college campus teams with:

1. Creating a green existing buildings program on campus

2. Implementing the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance rating system at the campus and building level

3. Establishing a culture of performance on your campus

Stacey DeLorenzo and Morgan Johnston identified the specific scope of the Sixth Street bike lanes project to prepare a grant application.  This project will include parking removal on the east side of the street from Armory to Pennsylvania. The segment from Armory to Gregory will be implemented with the Sixth Street and Stadium Drive capital project. The remainder of the bike lane installation, along with other improvements, would occur with this grant funding.  Stacey will develop the application by mid July. 

Stacey DeLorenzo and Morgan Johnston met to discuss a potential ITEP grant application.  We looked at the bike lanes needed on Sixth Street from Armory to Pennsylvania.  We will gather the information about the costs, and talk with Rita Black at the CCRPC CUUATS group about the likelihood of success.

University Housing’s 2010 Strategic Plan identified stewardship of resources as critical to our long-term success. According to the plan, stewardship of resources means “University Housing will demonstrate intentional and transparent stewardship of the financial, physical, and human resources of our entire organization. We will seek to use and conserve our resources in an effective manner that meets the needs of our residents and customers seeking and expecting excellent value.”

While University Housing had already initiated a number of sustainability efforts, the University developed the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) in May 2010, identifying new sustainability mandates with which Housing will need to comply. Additionally, the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) was asking for support on multiple initiatives.

As a result, University Housing identified the need to pool our sustainability resources through a single point of contact and formed the Housing Sustainability Council.

Janet Spencer authorized an additional location for single-use battery recycling, at the Building Research Council.

We discussed the 2013 USGBC Green Apple Day of Service in detail.

USGBC Green Apple website – http://www.usgbc-illinois.org/events/green-apple/

USGBC Green Apple Participant Map – http://goo.gl/maps/Enkwg

In 2009, the Student Sustainability Committee awarded $50,000 to Facilities & Services for installation of occupancy sensors to control lights in ten campus buildings: Animal Sciences Laboratory, Architecture Building, Bevier Hall, Chemistry Annex, Huff Hall, Materials Science and Engineering Building, Mumford Hall, Music Building, Noyes Laboratory and Transportation Building. The funds were used to install a total of 230 occupancy sensors in 223 rooms in these ten buildings.

In 2008, the Student Sustainability Committee awarded $20,000 to Facilities & Services for installation of occupancy sensors to control lights in three campus buildings: Loomis Laboratory, Foreign Languages Building, and Armory. Later, the budget was increased to $50,000 and the scope expanded to include seven additional buildings: Davenport Hall, Everitt Electrical Building, English Building, Henry Administration Building, Psychology Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Building, and Wohlers Hall. The funds were used to install a total of 332 occupancy sensors in 272 rooms in these ten buildings.

James Roedl did a volunteer training showing three people the specifics on how to overhaul hubs.  It was a great event.

This is the cover letter that went to DCEO for the 2013-06530 Public Energy Efficiency Program $1,763,393.

From: Skaggs, Thomas R
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:58 AM
Subject: RE: Parking lots

Parking Lot Construction Comparisons

  Between September 2011 and August 2012 the Parking Department undertook 2 surface lot construction projects.  Each of the two projects were different by nature but a comparison of the projects demonstrates the following results:

Lot C-9 (Bid Project)

Parking lot C-8 was a project to create a parking area between existing lot C-8 and lot C-9.

• Permeable asphalt lot built on rock base.
• Project initiated March 2010, Completed January 2012
• 2 new lights
• No planting islands
• No demolition of existing parking lot
• 1 connecting walk
• No curbs
• Paint stripes
• Sewer line

70 spaces

Duration of project 22 Months

Surface life expectancy 20 years

Total Final Cost $483,413

Cost per space $6,906

Lot E-15 West (Design and Build In House by F&S)

• Concrete surface
• Project initiated May 2012, Completed August 2012
• Large areas of demolition, removals including curbs, planting islands and old pavement
• Rebuild rock base
• Re-wire/new underground service for lights.
• 2 large concrete planting islands
• Replacement and expansion of concrete connecting walks
• Replace large central drive with new concrete drive
• Remove and rebuild concrete east entrance
• Paint stripe
• 4 sewers rebuilt
• Landscaping in planters and around perimeter

150 spaces

Duration of project 4 months

Surface life expectancy 50+ years

Total Final Cost $198,720

Cost per space $1,325

After discussions with senior management in the Division of Research Safety we have decided that we (DRS) will continue to recommend trash disposal of alkaline batteries until the campus decides to adopt an alternate policy. We do not receive that many questions regarding the proper disposal of alkaline batteries from campus and we have removed all but two references regarding the disposal of the alkaline batteries from the DRS website.

This is an interesting study from MIT which you may already be aware of:  http://www.epbaeurope.net/documents/NEMA_alkalinelca2011.pdf

Thanks.

Landon Hill

Division of Research Safety

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

217-333-2436

landon@illinois.edu