Hello Everyone,

I am rushing to put together the mass-mail announcement for the campus research community, as My Green Labs re-finalized our results last night. This will go out by the end of this week.  

It will include action item totals, recognition and a couple of new achievements reached by UIUC.

Everyone on this email has earned an award this year, we will be awarding the top 14 performing labs.

Sorry the celebration date is so close, we need to send the photo to the My Green Labs and the Lab Manager Journal by Sept. 29th  in order make the deadline.

Thank you 

Paul Foote

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Thanks to everyone that has already responded!

If you have not yet had the chance, Please do so by Friday the 15th?

So far we are looking at 2pm Thursday afternoon, I hope all can make it!

Best

Paul Foote

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Hello Everyone,

The most popular date and time is Thursday the 21st at 2 pm, we will be in front of IBRL (1300 W Pennsylvania Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

IBRL-Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory

See you all then!

P.S. I am still tabulating the results, the mass email will go out to the research community Monday evening.

Best

Paul Foote

Jen and Morgan met with the iCAP team clerks today to plan for the semester.

Hi Jim & Kelly Jo,

My intentions were to send this out last Friday after seeing the DKC email, I just didn’t get back to it before the end of the day. I just wanted to share the latest version 4.1 of LEED which shows the new requirements for fundamental & Enhanced Cx.

Both have increased in documentation, material and tasks needed to achieve them. Above are just a few of the items that Brian and I track and report for Fundamental Cx.

Looks like they are going for Platinum, the highest level. I wonder if they have looked into green cleaning or alternative energy. We may want to verify this. Keep in mind, that all the actual commissioning is covered under the required fundamental portion. Enhanced includes extra tasks needed to be performed by the contractors and possibly a 3rd party entity. Something to think about as well is overall cost of the project, this could drive the cost of the project up. So, that’s another thing we need to bring to their attention is adding the appropriate language in the specifications.  Enhanced does have a possibility of gaining 6 points but there are options. 

I’ll be back in the office tomorrow; I have time tomorrow afternoon or Friday to discuss the options and path’s if we so choose to accept this route. We should also discuss UGL, they are also wanting to pursue enhanced, not sure which avenue yet, I believe they talked about option 1, path 1.

Thanks,

Jake

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Just an fyi with some information that Brian and I provide to USGBC for UIUC Cx activities. The material attached above is just some of what we provide for the fundamental side of commissioning. I would like to speak to you about the enhanced side when you have a few minutes.

Please let me know if you have a few minutes this afternoon or tomorrow.

Thank you,

Jake

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Hi Jake:

Rather than discussing this with me along with Morgan, I’m going to invite you to the 50% Design Review to discuss it with the PSC. Copying KJH so she sees the email string. I’m not sure where Bailey Edward is going with this other than trying to get a higher LEED score. I’m not passionate about pursuing enhanced CX but Bailey Edward wanted to discuss as a part of the rating process. Right now, I have the LEED/Enhanced CX scheduled for 11:50-12:30 on Tuesday, September 19. I know it’s part of a lunch, apologies for that. I’m attempting to get through all of the DR comments in less than 16 hours of time and this would be the last meeting of the day.

Sending the schedule out shortly.

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Just an fyi…I reached out to Todd with Baily Edwards the other day. I have attached the email regarding that conversation.

Basically, as long as they enter the appropriate language in the specifications, we could revisit this later in the project and see how the points are achievable and what’s actually needed to get them to the appropriate certification level.

Morgan:

I spoke with Dave Dowler and he gave me your name as a person to speak with in regards to opportunities to work together for increased ability to do projects in the sustainable energy sector.

Glesco is a local female owned business in Urbana and we have had the opportunity to complete numerous projects at the UIUC campus.  I have recently had the opportunity to work with developers that have been funding capital P3 projects on campus and thought perhaps an opportunity existed to do things in the sustainable energy area. 

Would you have time to discuss this?  From my previous discussions at the University of Illinois, there was a “plan” in place prior to COVID that had both short-term and long-term goals in making UI more energy efficient.

I believe we met at the diversity and inclusion conference this past year, however, I hadn’t fully developed the idea of how we could perhaps work together to meet these goals.

I would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you if you are interested.  If you think this conversation is better suited for someone other than yourself, would you be so kind as to point me in the right direction?

Thank you.

Laurda Grenda

President of Glesco Electric Inc.

Morgan,

I was looking at the green research committee stuff just now. It had me thinking about charge #3 and how difficult that is. Curious what your thoughts are about it. There are parts of it we can definitely offer recommendations for. We have buildings that aren’t too far out of code/compliance and could be upgraded slowly (as budget allows) to put them in a better and more green standing. My opinion is we push for that. We also have buildings that seem to be too far gone and are in the “must rebuild” category to even inch our way towards “green.”

Shutting sashes, recycling, researchers making better decisions is a small piece of the problem that we can solve with a green research coordinator. I think to some, that is the easy part to address (with proper funding for that person) but won’t really get us to where we need to be to call our campus #1 for green research.

In your position with a lot of experience in sustainability and F&S, I’m curious your thoughts on this one. How do we even talk about sustainability to the buildings that are just trying to stay functional each day, where they are on the edge of even being able to do research in their facilities?

Sorry for the random email. Just scratching my head on this one after really thinking about how different each research building is on this campus. Happy to chat briefly via phone before we meet next week if you want.

Stephanie Hess

Hi Dave,

What effort and rough costs would it take to clean off the hard water stains on filler station spouts across campus?

Thanks,

Morgan 

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Pete,

What do you think about this? I will see if we have a list.

Dave

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We do have a list…I’ll have to find it and get it to you.

Thank you,

Pete

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Is this the BSW team to do this work?

Dave

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Yeah, we remove water stains from sinks and faucets. If the Plumbing shop doesn’t mind we can add it to our “to do” list.

Thank you,

Pete

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Pete,

We view this as BSW work not the Plumbing shop.

Thanks,

Dave

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Hi Dave and Pete,

Pete – were you able to get some of these water bottle fillers cleaned, per the email below?

Dave and Pete – who would be responsible for resetting the filter status indicator light on the water hydration stations?  I believe the filters would be replaced through BMG, but is the indicator light something that would be reset when the filter gets replaced?  And I think there could be some hydration stations out there with no filter, but that still have a filter status indicator light…

Thanks,

Morgan

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Given our staffing shortages, we have not started working on this. It should be something we can get to over the winter break if hiring continues at the current pace.

Thank you,

Pete

Hi Gina,

It was great seeing you today! I am connecting you with Daphne Hulse, the zero waste coordinator at F&S. She organized the Dump & Run on campus in May, where she coordinated with Salt & Light and Goodwill. She also worked with University YMCA and volunteered for their Dump & Run event in August. I know Daphne loves the idea of Thrifting and she practices it too, so I think she would be interested in helping out with this idea!

Thank you,

Sarthak

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Thanks for connecting us, Sarthak!

Hi Gina – this is right up the F&S zero waste team alley! And several others, too, who I am including. The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, & Environment staff/interns have organized several “clothing swaps” over the years. Connor Purcell, cc’d, is a part of the Law School and is involved with their professional clothing donations program. I’m also including Param and Ashvin, who are working to organize a student-led zero waste week in March next semester.

I would love to set up a time to chat about this – what’s your availability look like?

Thank you,
Daphne

Attached is the 2023-2024 iCAP teams charge letter.

Below is an email sent by Madhu Khanna to the 2023-2023 ICAP Teams:

Dear iCAP Team Members,

Thank you once again for your service in helping to make the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign a more sustainable campus. Attached is your charge letter for the 2023-2024 academic year with an outline of your campus sustainability duties as part of an iCAP Team. We look forward to your positive and impactful contributions.

Thank you,

Madhu

These are the notes from our first SSLC meeting of the semester on 9/15/2023.

Hi Tony,

Could you please provide files like these, for FY21, FY22, and FY23?  This is in support of the iCAP objective https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/objectives/222-reduce-building-level-energy.

Thank you,

Morgan

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Morgan,

Can you refresh my memory on how this information is distributed and utilized to support the iCAP?  Since it has been three years since we last produced the reports I am wondering if there is still value in producing these.

Best,

Tony