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Second Expansion of Retrofit Chicago’s CommercialBuilding InitiativeReside Living Launches Smoke-Free PlanThe Weather and Your LandscapeLow Hanging Fruit Energy Savings Chicago Green Office ChallengeAlliance to Retrofit ChicagoHigher Education

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the university of illinois Chicago (uiC) was formed in 1982 by the consolidationof two u. of i. campuses: the medical Center campus, which dates back to the19th century, and the comprehensive Chicago Circle campus which replaced, in1965, the two-year undergraduate navy Pier campus that had opened in 1946 toeducate returning veterans. the public research university operates 115 build-ings in an urban setting and has a total budget of over 2 billion dollars per year.

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16,660 undergraduates, 8,186 grad-uate students, and 2,743 professional stu-dents comprise the total studentpopulation of 27,589 at UIC. Add 1,960Faculty members and 7,938 Administra-tive, Professional & Support staff and youhave a group of approximately 37,500people. UIC is one of Chicago’s 20 largestemployers and has 15 colleges, includingthe nation’s largest college of medicine.UIC also operates the state’s major publicmedical center and regional health sci-ences campuses in Peoria, Rockford andUrbana-Champaign. An organization ofthat size definitely has a significant carbonfootprint with many opportunities to im-pact our environment.

UIC is one of the leading institutionsof higher education in Chicago and aimsto be a leader in sustainability in Chicagoas well. They just achieved a Silver levelranking in the Association for Advance-ment of Sustainability in Higher Educa-tion (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking,Assessment and Rating System (STARS)which is a transparent, self-reportingframework for colleges and universities tomeasure their sustainability performance.Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares is a strongsupporter of sustainability and UIC hasmany success stories of their sustainabilityefforts and accomplishments. The Chan-cellor’s Committee on Sustainability andEnergy issued a report in 2010 and fea-tured as its primary recommendation thecreation of a Student Green Fee which wasapproved by the Board of Trustees in2011. The Student Green Fee is a $3 se-mester based fee charged to all studentsthat serves to improve the quality of cam-pus operations, reduce UIC’s environmen-tal impact, and most importantlygenerates awareness about environmentalissues by creating opportunities for stu-dents’ involvement. It has allowed thecompletion of various sustainability proj-ects on campus including the HeritageGarden, permeable pavers by the StudentServices Building, and Off-Grid Bus Shel-ter. Below is a (partial) list of sustainabilityrelated accomplishments:

Sustainability Success Story at UIC

Y Shown above is the Student Residence Commons at UIC. Y Pictured above is the University of Illinois OutpatientCare Clinic and Divvy Bike Station.

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» Tree Campus USA Program-recognition in2011to 2013

» Added Commuting Information to the Employee Orientation

» Ride-Sharing via i-Carpool, a social mediaweb-site to find carpoolmatches

» Car Sharing and OtherActive Transportation Incentives

» A discount program for Divvy bike-share, subsidized for students by theGreen Fee

» Full implementation of the UIC Recycling Program in all buildings oncampus

» Campus Electronic Recycling Program(for both university property and per-sonal electronics)

» Pharmaceutical Disposal Program

» Collection of Food Scraps for compost-ing from the Student Centers

» Great Stuff Exchange (GSX)

» Building Energy MeteringInitiative – continue to in-stall electronically-moni-tored meters throughoutcampus.

» Campus Use of RenewableEnergy from solar powergenerated at Lincoln andDouglas Halls

» Continuation of the UICEnergy Master Plan/Utili-ties Master Plan

» Increasing numbers of Sustainability-related Events

“By design, sustainability factors intoall of UIC’s daily operations as well as ourmajor projects,” said UIC ChancellorPaula Allen-Meares. “That commitment isevident in our new Mile Square HealthCenter main location at Wood and Roo-sevelt. It’s our third LEED-certified build-ing and attained gold status.”

Office of Sustainability

UIC was the first University inChicago to create an Office of Sustainabil-

ity and has a Climate Action Plan in placethat mirrors that of the City of Chicago’sin many ways. The Office of Sustainabilitywas founded in January 2008 and hasbeen headed since its beginning by the As-sociate Chancellor for Sustainability, Cyn-thia Klein-Banai and supported bya team of staff, graduate assistants, in-terns, undergraduate recycling assistants,and volunteers.

“Our office forms the focal point for co-ordinating sustainability initiatives on cam-pus by receiving information, tracking data,and assessing progress,” says Klein-Banai.“This is accomplished through involvementin institutional and programmatic planning,information dissemination, program imple-mentation, grant writing, reporting, and act-ing as a resource on sustainability in highereducation.”

The Office of Sustainability coordi-nates initiatives on campus that bring UICtowards greater social, economic, and en-vironmental sustainability. Klein-Banaiadds, “Our current initiatives are focusedon improvements to campus-wide recy-

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Energy Policy, Initiatives & Projects

The University of Illinois at Chicagospends tens of millions of dollars a year onits utility bills for electricity, heating andcooling systems, and water. It is a high pri-ority for the campus to reduce its energyconsumption to reduce expenses in its op-erating budget for these items. UIC is alsocommitted to reducing greenhouse gasemissions. Many of the recommenda-tions of the Chancellor’s Committee onSustainability & Energy address energy

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Y Shown here is the Science & Engineering Complex at UIC Y Shown here is University Hall at UIC - in foreground is thelocation of the geothermal well-field.

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and greenhouse gases including reducingtotal energy consumption by 20-40%. Tothis end, the campus has a number of on-

going energy conservationand energy efficiency proj-ects including:

Metering Projects –UIC’s facilities manage-

ment group and utilitiesoperations has me-tered 29 campus

buildings. The meter-ing includes electricity,

high-temperature hotwater or steam, andchilled water. “Mostbuildings found on the

east side of campus usehigh-temperature hot water

for heating in the cold months. Mostbuildings on the west side of campus usesteam for heating in the cold months. Inthe summer, buildings are cooled bychilled water systems. The meters feedinto a computer system that allows ourbuilding engineers and utilities to monitor

the energy consumption and detect un-usual trends that could indicate problemswith the systems in those buildings. Thisallows us to prioritize projects and locate“hot spots” for energy consumption. Also,by having this data, we have a baseline forevaluating energy projects,” adds Klein-Banai.

The energy data provided by the me-ters is put into the Energy STAR PortfolioManager by the Office of Sustainability forbenchmarking. Benchmarking of buildingutilities is crucial in analyzing how energyprojects have improved energy use and fordeveloping new projects. Work is under-way to meter and benchmark the rest ofthe buildings on campus, starting withthose that are 250,000 square feet or more.

Energy Performance Contracting -Hiring an energy services company(ESCO) as a contractor to plan, finance,design and implement projects is an effec-tive way to carry out large and expensiveinitiatives. “The ESCO project at UICbegan retrofitting buildings in Fall 2013and should finish all upgrades by early

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2015, says Klein-Banai. The targeted build-ings in the Science and Engineering Labo-ratories Complex (Science andEngineering Laboratory East, Science andEngineering Laboratory West, Science andEngineering South, Science and Engineer-ing Offices, and Engineering Research Fa-cility) have a combined square footage of1,221,820 GSF, accounting for 17% of thesquare footage on the East Side of Campusand 8% of the total campus.

These buildings comprise UIC’s fourmajor laboratory facilities on the East Sideof campus. All but one of the buildingswere constructed in the mid-1960’s andstill retain their original mechanical sys-tems, causing them to be the major con-sumers of energy on the East Side ofcampus. Their combined energy consump-tion in FY2013 was equivalent to 270 mil-lion kWh which makes up 1/3 of theenergy use on the east side.

According to Klein-Banai, ’’this proj-ect will result in an overall savings ofgreater than 30% which is equivalent tothe electricity to power 2,500 homes. It

will also reduce UIC’s greenhouse gas emis-sions due to the operation of our buildingsby 3.5% (the same as taking about 2,000passenger vehicles off the road).’’ Accord-ing to Ameresco, the energy managementcompany contracting with UIC, the proj-ect will also create 592 direct jobs, 371 in-direct jobs, and 314 induced jobs.

Shadow Billing - The metering proj-ect will allow the university to report en-ergy consumption back to the colleges andadministrative units that occupy space inUIC’s buildings. This will heighten aware-ness of the real costs of energy utilizationand reinforce efforts that we will be takingto promote conservation by students, fac-ulty and staff. UIC plans to report this in-formation on the Office of Sustainabilitywebsite and signage in the buildings inthe coming year.

Renewable Energy - There are threecampus buildings that utilize renewableenergy: Grant, Lincoln and Douglas Hallutilize a geothermal ground source heatpump system to reduce energy usage. Ituses the relatively constant earth tempera-

ture to heat or cool water flowing throughthe building and into the well to draw orreject heat. Lincoln Hall has 224 solarpanels and Douglas Hall has 244 solarpanels that produce about 120 MWh/yr ofelectricity - which is equal to 2,120 treeseedlings grown for ten years.

Cogeneration - The ability of powerplants to purchase fuel at a reduced costcreated a unique arrangement for powergeneration at the University of Illinois.Utility Operations, an independent organ-ization operating within the University,runs its own cogeneration plants on theUIC campus. Cogeneration is the simulta-neous production of heat and power in asingle thermodynamic process. Instead ofdiscarding the heat produced by thepower production process, it is capturedand used to provide space heating and hotwater heating, thus eliminating the addedexpense of burning fuels for the sole pur-pose of space heating. This plant runs pri-marily on natural gas which is cleanerthan coal and fuel oil when consideringhazardous air pollutants and carbon diox-

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ide. When operated under certain condi-tions, cogeneration can be beneficial andhelps lower the emission of carbon andsulfur dioxide pollutants into the air.

Lighting Upgrades – The UIC cam-pus has many fluorescent light fixtures(the long bulbs). They began replacingthese fixtures with more efficientones with grants from the Illinois CleanEnergy Community Foundation. Fundingfrom Illinois Clean Energy totaled almost$1M over the first four years while UIC

has contributed over $1M of its own fundsto these projects. In 2010 UIC began re-placing even more fixtures with additionalfunding from the Illinois Department ofCommerce and Economic Opportunity incooperation with Com-Ed. UIC will be re-placing T12 fluorescent lighting fixtureswith high efficiency electronic ballastsand T8 lamps. To date, UIC has made re-placements that save over 2,200,261 kWhper year (approximately $110,000/yr).

HVAC Upgrades - Numerous projectsare planned, in process and completed toimprove HVAC systems across campus.These projects will improve the efficiencyof the systems, provide better control oftemperatures, and make those areas morecomfortable for building occupants. Oneof the current projects is in the College ofDentistry which involved new updatedbuilding system controls, new air han-dlers, pumps with variable frequencydrive, low flow fume hoods and lightingretrofits. Laboratories have higher air ex-change rates to allow for adequate ventila-tion of potential chemical contaminantsand thus a lot of energy is lost when thatair is exhausted. Therefore, a heat recov-ery system is also being installed to cap-ture the heat from the exhaust air. Inaddition, this is the first building at UIC toinstall the chilled beam technology whichis a convection HVAC system that relieson the difference in air density of hot andcold air to create air movement.

Retrocommissioning - UIC has par-ticipated in the SEDAC Retrocommission-ing program for several years. Thisprogram offers retro-commissioning guid-ance by identifying measures to improvethe control, scheduling, and operation ofenergy consuming systems to match thecurrent functional requirements of thebuilding. The end result: significant en-ergy and demand savings.

Building Envelope – UIC has com-pleted numerous projects maintaining &restoring the building envelopes (i.e. walls,windows, foundations, doors, and roofs)of many of its buildings as it greatly affectshow efficient a building will be in main-taining comfortable interior temperatures.Insulation in walls and seals around win-dows and doors are prime factors in thisarea and given special attention.

UIC also has used low-emittance coat-ings (microscopically thin, virtually invisi-ble, metal or metallic oxide layersdeposited on a window or skylight glazingsurface primarily to reduce the U-factor bysuppressing radiative heat flow), gas-fills,and insulating spacers and frames whichcan significantly reduce winter heat lossand summer heat gain through windows.

Details of the efforts and results ineach of these energy efficiency areas canbe found on the Office of Sustainability’swebsite at www.sustainability.uic.edu.

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as a way of behaving at the individual, group, insti-tutional, national, and global levels.  the 1987 u.n.report “our Common Future: the report of theWorld Commission on environment and develop-ment” (often referred to as “the Brundtlandreport”) defined sustainable development as“development that meets the needs of the presentwithout compromising the ability of future genera-tions to meet their own needs.”  the report intro-duces a sustainability paradigm comprising threeinterdependent domains—environment, economy,and social equity—and makes clear that only acomprehensive approach encompassing all threedomains assures that future generations not onlysurvive, but flourish.

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In addition to various energy projectsin these areas, UIC has established an en-ergy policy and a series of goals to furtherreduce both wasteful energy consumptionand harmful carbon emissions. The fol-lowing policy was approved by Provost R.Michael Tanner and Mark Donovan, ViceChancellor for Administrative Services, inNovember 2010.

UIC Energy Policy

The University of Illinois at Chicagois committed to sustainability in all as-pects of its mission. It is important thatfaculty, staff and students make informeddecisions to conserve energy, save money,and carry out its teaching, research, andservice missions.

UIC seeks to vigorously improve effi-ciency in our operations which utilize non-renewable resources and contribute to theemission of greenhouse gases. UIC is a com-plex institution in the makeup of its build-ings, operations and organization. Throughimplementation of this energy policy, thecampus will reduce its environmental im-

pact, increase financial and social viability,and create a campus environment whereenergy efficiency and sustainability are evi-dent. Energy compliance will be achievedby adhering to established guidelines, appli-cable codes, and standards.

Sustainability in Classrooms

There are many courses offered at UICthat include sustainability principles inthe teachings. A number of courses focuson sustainability and require students tosolve one or more major sustainabilitychallenges. Other courses may focus on atopic other than sustainability, but incor-porate a unit or module on sustainabilityor a sustainability challenge including anintensive workshop (one week or longer)with more sustainability-focused activities.Yet other classes integrate sustainability is-sues throughout the course. A full listingof classes featuring a sustainability compo-nent can be found on the Office of Sus-tainability website.

In addition, every summer the EnergyInitiative offers a two-week intensive

workshop called the Summer Institute onSustainability and Energy (SISE) that fo-cuses on current topics in energy, sustain-able energy, and sustainability.Participants converge at the University ofIllinois at Chicago where they live andwork together in a tight-knit, diverse com-munity of energy-minded students andprofessionals. The SISE experience affordsparticipants time and resources to explorepressing energy topics in an immersive en-vironment. These future energy leaders areeducated to make decisions about energyat the personal, civic, and global levels, inenergy related fields including science,technology, entrepreneurship, economics,policy, planning, and behavior.

More Student Participation

Beyond making suggestions on howto spend the money collected from thestudent green fee, students are engaged in-sustainability in many ways at UIC. Newthis year is a “To Green and BeyondToolkit’ which features a Sustainability

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Sustainability SuccessStory at UICMap (indicating UIC Green Assets),“Proud to be Sustainable” poster cam-paign, “What Color is Your Sustainabil-ity”quiz, Sustainability Scavenger Hunt,and a “Show us Your Colors” public rela-tions campaign in each building.

Another new initiative in 2014 is TheSustainability Internship Program (SIP) of-fered through the Office of Sustainability

that offers hands-on learning ex-periences for undergraduatesthat advance the overall missionof greater social, economic andenvironmental sustainability inthe campus community. Thisunique program provides an in-tellectual framework for studentsto apply classroom learning toproject based engagement. Thefirst 10 week program just com-pleted this past summer and

consisted of SIP of internship placement ata UIC department. Weekly seminars withfield outings that cover a range of educa-tional and skill building topics, leadershipdevelopment and project management ex-perience. Seminar topics included: envi-ronmental and energy sustainability issues,cultural sustainability issues, institutionalchallenges and change management, cam-pus structure and administration, campussustainability programs and job readiness.This program is the result of various collab-orations with: UIC Dining Services, UICCampus Housing, Utilities, Facilities Man-

agement, Bike UIC, the College of Engi-neering, University of Illinois Hospital andthe Energy Initiative.

UIC’s ‘’Sustainability Days’’ is amonth-long celebration of sustainable liv-ing. In September, the Office of Sustain-ability hosts a variety of eventsthroughout the month, as well as partnerswith and promotes other campus sustain-ability related events such as Calories toKilowatt Competition, the Great Stuff Ex-change, Campus Electronic Recycling,Open House Green Building Tours, Trans-portation Fair & Cycling Extravaganza,Memorial Grove Re-dedication, WeighYour Waste, seminars on climate changeand energy choices, and an environmen-tally educational film screening.

EcoReps

The Office of Sustainability coordi-nates many campus greening initiatives -some related to recycling, active trans-portation, energy conservation, and theTree Campus Program – that affect eachdepartment and unit on campus. To help

Z Shown here is the newly constructed Mile Square building on the UIC campus.

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facilitate communication and implemen-tation at the unit level, the Office of Sus-tainability has asked each department todesignate a staff member to serve as a liai-son – an EcoRep – to the Office of Sustain-ability. Klein-Banai concludes,“Sustainability is all around UIC–you justhave to get out there and find it.”

Green Town

The University of Illinois Chicago hasshown leadership in bringing togethermany people (other than students) fromthe community as well as businesses andother institutions in the name of sustain-ability. A good example of this is that UICserved as the site host for a GreenTownevent on May 21 and 22 at the StudentCenter East, with key decision makers andcommunity stakeholders meeting to helpmake sustainable communities a reality.GreenTown events are held at various lo-cations and are co-produced by a5, andSeven Generations Ahead, a nonprofit or-ganization with a mission to buildhealthy, sustainable communities.

This event at UIC was attended byresidents, business leaders, elected officialsand city managers, public works directors,park district directors, planners, develop-ers, builders, architects, engineers, schoolleaders, teachers, healthcare professionalsand environmental advocates. Attendeesshared their interest in sustainable devel-opment, developed partnerships, heard in-spiring speakers and learned from casestudies. The intent of GreenTown is thatthese disparate groups go on to form part-nerships and set goals and identified ac-

tionable steps they can take together tocreate sustainable communities.

The GreenTown event at UIC featureda special pre-conference session that high-lighted the important role that collegesand universities play. In addition to train-ing the next generation of sustainabilityleaders through academic programs, Insti-tutions of Higher Education can advancesustainability throughout the Chicagolandregion through community developmentefforts and infrastructure.

Representatives from Loyola Univer-sity, Dominican University, the Universityof Illinois, Roosevelt University and Tri-ton College joined attendees from otherschools from around the region to discussways to engage college and universitystaff in the drive to sustainable change oncampus and in the community, learn howto create learning opportunities related toengaging the broader community and tonetwork with other community stake-holders. $

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