{"id":24411,"date":"2015-05-27T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=24411"},"modified":"2015-06-09T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T19:53:55","slug":"emu-places-in-the-top-ten-of-campus-conservation-nationals-competition-to-reduce-electricity-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2015\/emu-places-in-the-top-ten-of-campus-conservation-nationals-competition-to-reduce-electricity-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU places in the top ten of Campus Conservation Nationals competition to reduce electricity consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its rookie debut, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) was a top finisher in the Campus Conservation Nationals<\/a> (CCN), landing within the top ten schools among 125 campus participants in North America that achieved the most reduction in electricity consumption over a three-week period.<\/p>\n

As a Top Ten finisher, EMU was awarded the grand prize of a one-year license to equip two buildings on campus with competition sponsor Lucid<\/a>\u2019s energy monitoring hardware and software.<\/p>\n

The accomplishment was particularly notable. “As a first-time participant, EMU placed solidly in the top 10 reducers, consuming 21% less electricity in just three weeks,\u201d said Lucid CEO Vladi Shunturov. \u201cThe commitment from EMU\u2019s students and staff is truly inspiring.”<\/p>\n

The win is \u201can affirmation of the Eastern Mennonite University’s long-running commitment to reducing our school’s energy use,\u201d said campus sustainability coordinator Jonathan Lantz-Trissel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The end result of the CCN competition not only raised awareness about individual consumer habits, but resulted in a substantial savings of resources and finances. The competition monitored 1,374 buildings used by approximately 345,000 student, faculty and staff, and reported a total savings of 1.9 million kilowatt hours, 394,000 gallons of water, and $290,000.<\/p>\n

According to the CCN website, this is the equivalent of removing 182 homes from the grid for one year, saving 1.5 million one-liter bottles of water, and averting 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n

CCN, in its fifth year, is hosted by the Center for Green Schools<\/a> at the U.S. Green Building Council<\/a>, Lucid, the Alliance to Save Energy<\/a> and the National Wildlife Federation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Campus ‘climate’ contributes
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From March 8-28, ten campus buildings were monitored for energy usage. Roselawn came out on top with a 40.2 percent reduction, followed by Maplewood (39.7 percent) and Elmwood (37.3), Hartzler Library (28) and Cedarwood (23.2).<\/p>\n

The results make sense to Lantz-Trissel: recently renovated buildings<\/a> such as Roselawn, and the LEED-certified dormitories \u201care carefully designed to heat and cool efficiently in small zones, where older buildings have fewer thermostats and less flexibility and response to users or outside temperature changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, campus culture <\/a>plays a large role in this success. \u201cWe also have a strong community ethic to conserve and care for creation, which means in a competition the community responds to the challenge to reduce energy or recycle and EMU usually outperforms our peer schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Greg Sachs, building automation coordinator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Greg Sachs<\/a>, whose job is to implement energy management, efficiency and sustainability measures as EMU\u2019s building automation coordinator, had some idea of how competitive faculty, staff and residents were getting when he heard some voicing disappointment during March that \u201ctheir building wasn\u2019t doing better.\u201d<\/p>\n

That bodes well for next year, Sachs said, when he plans to implement a social media campaign to raise awareness and get more people involved.<\/p>\n

The competition also includes regional sub-competitions, such as the Big Ten Unplugged, the New York Negawatt Challenge, the California State University Conservation League, and the Campus ConseRVAtion Nationals, featuring three Richmond area schools.<\/p>\n

Sachs hopes to invite Shenandoah Valley area universities and colleges to compete next year. He\u2019s also pondering a friendly rivalry among Mennonite colleges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to watch the influence of CCN continue to grow,\u201d said Chelsea Hodge, director of programs at Lucid. \u201cEvery year, more and more students and staff prove through CCN that they are committed to using behavior change tools to achieve short and long term reductions in their campuses\u2019 carbon footprints.\u201d<\/p>\n

Publicizing user habits<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The grand prize of Lucid hardware and software will complement the monitoring system already present on campus, according to Sachs. Preliminary plans will enable a more public showcase of campus sustainability efforts, with television screens projecting constant data to building users.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were planning to place one monitor in the Suter Science Center<\/a>, which gets a lot of foot traffic and would be a nice feature for that building\u2019s users,\u201d Sachs said, adding that he\u2019d also like to track energy use and trends in the newly renovated building.<\/p>\n

That feedback will help users adjust their behaviors, \u201cmuch the same way a fitness monitoring app might help a person be more active, lose weight, or work to improve in a sport,\u201d says Lantz-Trissel. \u201cBut in just the same way as a fitness app, data monitoring is only so useful, and improvement is up to the habits and behaviors of the building’s occupants.\u201d<\/p>\n

EMU has a history of engaging its competitive spirit towards sustainability efforts: the campus recently won the state Recyclemania competition<\/a>, and has placed first among small colleges in the National Bike Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, the university was awarded a silver ranking by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education<\/a>, based on its sustainability initiatives in operations, curriculum, planning and other areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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