# Presentation: 488265

## Tufts Climate Initiative 

- Tufts Climate Initiative
- Taking Action for Climate Change
- Sarah Hammond Creighton, Project Manager
- Tufts Climate Initiative
- Miller Hall, Tufts University
- Medford MA 02155
- 617-627-5517
- fax:  617-627-6645
- _sarah.creighton@tufts.edu_
- _www.tufts.edu/tci_

**Notes:**
Cover

## Slide 2

**Notes:**
Commitment

## 7% below 1990 CO2 levels translates into 30% reduction

## What does climate change action look like?

- Efficient existing buildings
- Efficient new buildings
- Efficient equipment (computers, washing machines, refrigerators, vehicles)
- Green (clean) power
- Generated on site
- Purchased from a utility
- Co-generation (heat and electricity)
- Personal actions
- Policies

## Can we reach the target?

-   YES!

- _Many Scenarios_.... For example:
- 10% decrease electrical use through efficiency
- 5% green power
- 10% fuel switch from oil to gas
- Level use going forward

## Where to start? 

- Where you can achieve results
- Pilot basis
- Where pilot project have succeeded
- Where other investment is underway or planned
- Where you have influence

## Action Areas 

- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- High performance in new buildings
- Existing buildings
- Alternative fuels and fuel switch
- Personal Action
- University policies and planning
-  Research
-  Education and outreach

## TCI is a Partnership 

-  Department of Facilities
-  Energy Manager
- Dept. of Construction
- Dining, Purchasing
- Residential Life
- Faculty
- Students

## Wildlife Clinic

**Wildlife Clinic**
**Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine**

## 		Wildlife Clinic Results

- <date/time>

- 		_Wildlife Clinic Results_
-  Reduced area with 15 air changes/hour
-  Heat exchange enthalpy wheel
-  Digital controls
-  Front loading washing machine (15 loads/day)
-  Simplified roof
-  Hardy Plank siding
-  Building Commissioning
- Energy measures = 5 year payback

## Solar Residence Hall

- Currently in design
- 30 kW photovoltaic system on roof
- 2 kW photovoltaic system in curtain wall
- LEED Silver – goal
- Energy modeling and efficiency

## Solar Residence Hall

- Rooftop:  horizontal PV array will generate 25,000 kWh annually.

- Crystalline PV modules in curtain wall will generate 5,000 kWh/year on a demonstration basis.

## Solar Residence Hall:How we are doing “it”.

- In early – Request for Designers
- Working within the system
- Picking our targets
- Off-the-shelf _not_ top-of-the-shelf
- Adding value to the process
- Funding

## Existing Buildings

- Critical to reducing net carbon emissions
- Focus on:
- Heating
- Cooling
- Electricity use (including plug loads)
- Building envelope
- Building use and policy

## Schmalz House Renovation

- _Schmalz House Renovation_
- Planned for renovation
- Grad student study
- Comprehensive look at building systems
- Phased implementation

## Heating: Sizing and Controls

- Lighting sensors
- and controls

- Schmalz House:  Treating the building as a system

- Front-loading washing machine

## How we did it

- _How we did it_
- Piggy-backed onto planned retrofits (deferred maintenance)
- Linked energy with planned renovation
- Overcame solar industry’s inexperience with big institutions

- Solar hot water and water conservation cut water heating fuel use by 50%

##  		Lighting

-  First univesisty Green Lights partner (1990)
-  Campus-wide installation of efficient lamps and ballasts.
-  1500 CF lamps for desk lights.
-  Occupancy sensors ($600,000)

## In the chapel CF lamps in chandeliers cut electricity cost in half. 

- In the chapel CF lamps in chandeliers cut electricity cost in half.

## Alternative Fuels

- Alternative Fuels

## Alternative Fuels

- Alternative Fuels

## Vending Misers

**Vending Misers**
- www.bayviewtech.com

**New Technologies: **

- _Steps to Saving Energy with Vending Misers:_
- Mount to wall
- Plug in

## THE VENDING MISER STORY...

**Student intern found out about it**
**Ordered one to try out, showed almost 50% savings, payback 1-2 years**
**Talked with Coke and facilities and oked**
**Ordered about 100**
**Temporarily installed some of them (union issues!)**
**Contractor installed them permanently**
**Student left**
**Coke company had to move machines to gain access**
**New student installed them temporarily**
**Contractor had to come back**
**Machines had to be moved back into place**
**We went back to check cables and put up signs.**
**Complaints started to come in: circuits blown out**
**Complaints continue, Facilities gets made, refuse to respond to service calls about misers**
**Frantically search for solutions:**
**Repeater!!! **
**Meet with Dinging, Meet with Coke, **
**Install nasty signs**

## Slide 24

## Planning and Policy

- The Energy Affairs Council
- Representatives of all 8 schools
- Develop energy recommendations:  reliability, cost, and environment
- Develop temperature standards and policies
- $1 million annual fund for energy projects

## EAC:  Debating policies 

- EAC:  Debating policies

## Climate Change links with emergency planning

## Changing Behavior

- _Changing Behavior_
-   15,000 brochures
-   Letter from the VP
-   Facts and figures

- Personal Action Initiatives

## Light bulb exchange

- _Light bulb exchange_
- Over 1500 light bulbs
- No “returns”

- Personal Action Initiatives

## Working with people 

- Students:  Eco-Reps  and student projects
- Staff and Faculty:  Building Curators
- Administrators:  Energy Affairs Council

## Eco-Reps educate others

## 250 students in projects 

- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy
- Political Science
- Economics

## Graduate student developed “Hot Spots” Campaign

- “Don’t let it be your pc. Beat the heat. Put it to sleep.”

## What does it take?

- Commitment
- Investment
- Time
- Understanding of technical issues
- Willingness to take risks
- Asking the right questions
- Advocacy

## www.tufts.edu/tci

- tci@tufts.edu