Oct 24, 2018 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards, News Releases
If you were handed a neat stack of cash and told you could use it for anything, would you choose to spend it on sustainability? After winning a 2017 cash prize in Facilities & Services’ Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP), occupants of the Transportation...
Sep 21, 2018 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards, News Releases, SWATeams
Meet Jonah Messinger, a sophomore Agricultural and Biological Engineering major in The Grainger College of Engineering and a member of the Energy Generation, Purchasing, and Distribution SWATeam. Messinger, who originally started serving on the Energy Conservation and...
Dec 14, 2017 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards, News Releases, SWATeams
Meet David Boehm, the Associate Director of Operations, Maintenance, and Alterations at Facilities & Services and a member of our Energy Conservation and Building Standards SWATeam. Before his current position, Boehm was Director of Facility Services for St....
Dec 1, 2017 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards, News Releases, SWATeams
Andrea Martinez Gonzalez is a second-year graduate student studying Communication and a member of our Energy Conservation and Building Standards SWATeam. Being a SWATeam member is a way for her to apply her communication, persuasion, and campaigning skills to projects...
May 25, 2017 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards
Light bulbs turned off by volunteers through March 24, 2023 Approximate tons of carbon dioxide equivalent saved through March 24, 2023 Approximate dollars saved in energy bills through March 24, 2023 Not in use? Turn off the juice! iSEE’s Illini Lights Out (ILO)...
May 8, 2017 | Energy Conservation and Building Standards, News Releases, SWATeams
During seven “Illini Lights Out” events throughout the 2016-17 school year, teams of student volunteers turned off more than 11,000 light fixtures in buildings on or near the Illinois Main Quad on Friday evenings. One bulb at a time, this small action...