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F&S Makes Progress on Bicycle Projects
Associated Project(s):F&S continues to work with a number of student groups and individuals on bicycle-related projects:
- Bicycle Intern and Urban Planning student Grace Kenney has returned from a semester abroad and is now completing the Bike Sharing Feasibility Study this spring, as well as implementing departmental bike sharing with interested departments, using the Departmental Bike Sharing Manual produced by the Fall 2011 LINC class. Grace also helped with the master bike plan in January, and will be working closely with the Bike Sharing Steering Committee in the coming weeks and months.
- Bicycle Intern and Urban Planning student Holly Nelson is continuing to work on bike lane design recommendations.
- Bicycle Intern and Urban Planning student Patrick Clark is working on bike parking upgrade designs and recommendations, including SSC-funded improvements at the Illini Union, as well as developing the formal grant proposal for bike parking upgrade funding for SSC.
- GIS student Marcus Ricci proposed a GIS class project to analyze the location and quantity of bike parking in relationship to building doors and bike pathways.
- The UI Bikes LINC course, as mentioned above, is working with F&S on several projects related to both bike sharing and bike parking.
- An MBA class is studying the Campus Bike Project, among other bicycle-related topics, and will make a recommendation to the CBP for developing a self-sustaining funding model.
- Student Senator David Huang has drafted and will introduce a formal resolution to the Illinois Student Senate proposing the implementation of online bicycle registration through Ride Campus. (http://www.ridecampus.com/)
Members of The Bike Project steering committee met with representatives of F&S and SSC to brainstorm opportunities to help make the Campus Bike Project a financially self-supporting operation. This is in parallel to the efforts of the MBA class looking into this issue. The Bike Project will be submitting a Letter of Inquiry to the SSC before their current funding expires in May.
F&S staff attended the monthly Champaign County Bikes meeting in January, to discuss a potential use of Ride Campus and Varsity Rack in Champaign-Urbana. F&S is also working with CCB member Jeff Yockey to develop a steering committee to explore the possibility of implementing Ride Campus at the University of Illinois.
F&S staff and Patrick Clark met with the Illini Union to discuss improving bike parking facilities around the Union, and potentially having the Union be a pilot test location for the Varsity Rack.
ISTC Reviewed Final Draft of Study
Associated Project(s):ISTC reviewed the final draft of their True Cost of Water Study with F&S leadership for comments before submittal to SSC. F&S will use the study to select water conservation projects related to chiller plants and cooling towers.
Sustainability Curriculum and Workshop Progress
Associated Project(s):Engineering 315, Learning in the Community (LINC), has a number of course sections dedicated to sustainability this semester, including UI Bikes (UIB), for which Facilities & Services is serving as the Project Partner. The UIB section has two student project managers and 13 undergraduate students, who will be focusing on three bicycle-related projects this semester: A. the continuation of the bike sharing market analysis started last semester, including a campus-wide survey and targeted focus groups; B. the development of a campus bicycle parking map; and C. testing various marketing tactics to try to encourage students to park their bikes legally at designated bike parking, rather than on trees, signs, ramps, or fences.
F&S and the Campus Bike Project (CBP) met with an MBA class who agreed to help the CBP become fiscally self-supporting through improved marketing. There are two student teams who will review this topic in the context of all bicycle-related topics for campus.
Logistics are underway for the Spring, 2012 offering of the Teaching Sustainability Workshop (previously the Prairie Project). There will be an opening reception and keynote speaker on Friday, April 13 at Levis Center and the workshop will be held on April 14, 2012 at the Japan House. The call for applications went out on January 25 with applications due by March 9. In two days, we had already received 11 applications and are now up to 15. This is the quickest response we have had to date.
The Scholarship of Sustainability Series is currently being offered for the third year. The series is connected with 4 courses from 3 different colleges in addition to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Attendance each Thursday is expected to be around 100 people as the enrollment in the 4 courses are full (and the series will not be videotaped.)
Last fall, the SSC suggested an MOU with the Office of Sustainability regarding the hiring of a curriculum specialist to work one-on-one with faculty to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. The OS submitted a letter of inquiry for committee response on January 27, 2012.
Quick payback projects
Associated Project(s):At some point in the past, perhaps FY 09, Terry Ruprecht and the Provost’s office worked out an agreement to provide a funding source for “quick payback projects.” This meant that the payback was expected to be quick, typically in the 1-3 year range. This was a onetime funding source. A variety of projects (10-15) have been brought forward and funded at a value of approximately 1 million dollars. These projects have included lighting retrofits, fume hood removals, chiller control upgrades, adding variable frequency drives (VFDs) to HVAC equipment, temperature control upgrades, and hot water control valve replacements.
2010 iCAP Solar goals
Associated Project(s):The 2010 iCAP included goals to increase renewable energy on campus. Regarding solar energy, the 2010 iCAP said, "A full study for solar electric or thermal energies has not yet been conducted. Estimates of the built campus area of ~5 square kilometers can likely accommodate 5 percent solar photovoltaic (PV) array coverage as rooftop solar—or about 250,000 square meters, with peak generation capacity of 25 MW, and generating 45 million kWh of electricity. This has the potential to displace 10 percent of current campus electricity usage. Potential for larger tracking arrays on the South Farms also exists." It also included the strategy, "Increase the amount of solar photovoltaic and thermal projects."
MechSE Sustainability Senior Design Funding Agreement
Associated Project(s):Students in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering have been working on projects to improve the sustainability of our campus. The Department has requested support to carry out to projects (designing a sump pump water collection and use system, and assisting with the retro-commissioning of Siebel Center), which will are high-impact projects and will involve students. Thus, the Student Sustainability Committee is in favor of funding them to the amount of $6,000 ($4,000 for the water project, and $2,000 for the retro-commissioning project – with the expectation that Computer Science will underwrite the remainder).
corrugated cardboard recycling program started
Associated Project(s):Cardboard recycling appears to have started in July 1988
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