Good afternoon all,

This week’s meeting was short but was necessary to update Morgan on the progress made over the past three weeks and to determine the next steps to be taken. To catch everyone up I have attached all of my findings for information on the chilled water loops. A quick summary of what I discovered is that the vet med chiller plant is on a separate loop because of how far it is from other campus buildings. In its loop it has 5 different buildings it provides chilled water to. The other 6 chiller plants are all connected in the main chilled water loop. The loop consists of about 115 different campus buildings and they can be seen in the document. The buildings found in this loop were found by sorting the utilities billing information by chilled water vendor. The five chiller plants on the main loop also have the capability to isolate themselves from the main loop and provide certain buildings with chilled water. This list can also be found in the document.

I then read through the BIF’s plumbing materials list to see if it had any information on low flow fixtures. I found out that for some of the listed items like the lavatories in the description says “max flow 0.5 GPM in compliance with energy policy act of 1992 and ASME/ANSI standard A112.18.1M.” We do not know if it has all the listed fixtures and will have to continue looking into other building plumbing lists.

Besides researching I also created a rough water audit plan for campus buildings. This will be a very intensive process as most water audits need to test every water fixture to get the actual flow rates of them. The first part of the audit will be reviewing data on each building to see the history of water consumption. Next the billing and metered water will be compared to see if there is a loss of water. After the data collection and comparison is complete auditors will walk through the building to see if there are any visible leaks and test each water fixtures actual flow rate. The flow rate will be recorded and used to compare each building against each other to see which will but retro fitted first based on most water consumption.

For this upcoming week I will be researching and creating more questions to ask about the chiller plants and low flow water fixtures. We will try to plan meetings or phone calls with other knowledgeable people to see if they have information that can help our progress and clarify any questions we have. I will also be creating a checklist that can be given to interns or workers on how to perform the walk through part of the water audit and finding vendors that can sell us the tools needed to determine flow rates of different water fixture.

Thank You,
Austin Jung

Hi everyone,

I wanted to report that yesterday we completed the thermal response test in the borehole, and our work at the site is done. Currently, we are working on processing and analyzing the data. This work should be completed later this week, and when done we will share the results with Sachin and the rest of the project team.

Tim Stark will also use these results to compare with the wellbore model his student is developing.

Best,

Andy

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Andrew Stumpf, Ph.D, LG, P.Geo

Associate Geologist

Illinois State Geological Survey

Prairie Research Institute

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois USA 61820

Hi Pete and Shawn--

There was no zero-waste activity this past week.

Best regards,

Marya Ryan

Hi Pete and Shawn—

Zero waste activities this past week were that I heard back from the School of Art and Design, which may be interested in acquiring the EPS densifier. I have an email out to Morgan, Pete, and Joe Pickowitz to identify the right person for Art and Design to work with on a possible transfer.

I also reviewed further PWR-SWATeam comments on the waste-reduction goals for iCAP Objective 6.1.

Best regards,

Marya Ryan

We Won 1st place internationally in the Institutional category for last year’s efforts!

My Green Labs and I2SL hosted the 2018 International Freezer Challenge see category winners here

Place Photo here

Worldwide recognition published through these media outlets:

Lab Manager Magazine, Cold Storage March 2019

Published article with participants quoted for expert advice here  

Nature Magazine feature published in Oct. 2018 (see attached PDF)

S-Labs highlights our achievements in their short-listed profiles here (PDF of short list attached)

ISEE and Facilities & Services published news releases U of I Wins Freezer Challenge & 2018 International Freezer Challenge Champions

Highlights from lab efforts in 2018

Goal for this year is to DOUBLE last year’s participation of 45 labs in 17 buildings and energy reduction, which totaled an estimated 720 kWh/day from October 2017 through June 2018. The annual total of 262,800 kWh of electricity saved during the competition is the approximate equivalent of the yearly energy used by 25 typical U.S. homes.

We can repeat the WIN; so far, the CDC is the only group to win twice in their division.

Join us

Thank you

Paul Foote

Think Globally- Act Locally

Second Nature paid UIUC for the sale of vintage 2017 carbon credits to Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) as part of UIUC's participation in the Carbon Credit and Purchasing Program.

Second Nature transferred 2,865 vintage Carbon Credits (VCUs) to BP Target Neutral (BPTN) on behalf of UIUC.

For this sale, UIUC receives $6.25 per credit. The total amount paid to UIUC for this sale is $17,906.25

An email of confirmation of this payment is attached below.

We are planning to start the thermal response test (TRT) on Monday. – Andy