1. Introduction page: Cover Who you are, Where you are from

2. American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment
I signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment on behalf of faculty, staff, and students.
I invite all of the UCCS community to get involved in helping the campus to reduce its carbon footprint, model sustainable practices for our students, and provide curriculum that facilitates the leadership needed to address this era’s significant challenges.
Pam Shockley Zalabak
Chancellor, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a high-visibility effort to address global climate disruption undertaken by a network of colleges and universities that have made institutional commitments to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from specified campus operations, and to promote the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate. Its mission is to accelerate progress towards climate neutrality and sustainability by empowering the higher education sector to educate students, create solutions, and provide leadership-by-example for the rest of society.
684 signatories to date of chancellors and presidents from community colleges, universities, small liberal arts colleges, etc.
American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment

3. UCCS Carbon Footprint 2015
With this slide it is important to utilize approx. information about 50% of ghg is from electricity and about 12% is from natural gas usage. Together these two sources make up nearly 2/3 of our ghg emissions. Full GHG emissions have been omitted however they compose approx. 34,000 mtCO2.

4. Sustainability Strategic Plan 2012-2020
Goal: Achieve Progress toward a Net Zero Energy Campus through
Conservation, Energy Efficiency Technologies,
and Producing or Purchasing Renewable Energy
Action: Increase on-campus and purchased renewable energy projects to 30% of total energy use
Action: Increase the quantity and scope of energy efficiency and retrofit projects
Action: Implement behavioral energy conservation measures

5. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
50% in 2030
80% in 2050
100% in 2099
Climate Commitment:
We are committed to carbon reductions as such:
20% by 2020
50% by 2030
80% by 2050
100% by 2099
This commitment focuses on reduction of carbon emissions as a percent of 2006 levels.
SEE ALSO: State of Colorado Governor’s Greening of State Government Executive Orders

6. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
This graph shows that if we’d followed the Business-As-Usual approach our emissions would’ve drastically increased by 2020.

7. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
Greening of the Grid program reduces our Emissions by 3%

8. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
Currently our carbon emissions is composed of 50% from our electricity. This energy usage primarily comes from campus lighting. The other large components consist of about 11% from natural gas usage from heating. About a quarter of our carbon emissions come from commuting to campus.
The first 3% of our carbon emissions are established from working with Colorado Springs Utilities to gain access to more green energy options.
An additional 3% will come from Higher Efficiency buildings. This focuses on future construction and our effort to meet LEED and the Governors green initiatives.
7% of our reduction will come from behavioral changes. This focuses on individual awareness of energy usage. This will including steps like turning off lights in classrooms and offices when not in use.
Approx. 30% of carbon reduction will be from facility retrofits. This will focus on high energy usage and antiquated systems. Through upgrades to existing systems and buildings we can save a great deal of energy usage. This will have an impact on our overall carbon emissions.
57% our carbon emission reduction will focus on increasing our production and usage of renewable energy.

9. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
Behavior changes will bring about 7% reduction of carbon footprint

10. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
(Energy Retrofits) With about 30% in reduction Energy Efficiency Projects represent the second largest part of emissions reduction strategies and has the potential to provide significant cost savings over the long term.

11. UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by:
20% in 2020
Another 57% reduction will come from Renewable Energy such as our 68-panel solar thermal system installed in The system provides approximately 2/3 of the energy needed to heat the pool and roughly 7% of the total building energy use.
And other systems on campus

12. UCCS Climate Commitment: How Are We Doing?

13. Smart Energy Pyramid
In this initial presentation of the smart energy pyramid focus on all three components. This pyramid focuses on the individuals impact with the largest segment being conservation. While Renewables and Efficiency play a larger role in our goals the individual approach shows what members of the campus community can do to help out. Individual conservation efficacy is additionally instrumental in attaining efficiency and renewables.

14. Renewable Energy: Solar Thermal
Recreation Center
Solar Thermal system provides most of the energy required to heat the pool, spa, and showers.
The Solar Thermal System on the Rec. Center. This system utilizes solar energy to heat the pool water in the Rec Center. Overall this system heats about 2/3 of the water. In doing so this system offsets natural gas usage. Note: This system has shown additional capacity to heat both the pool and at peak efficiency some of the showers in the building.

15. Renewable Energy: Offsite Solar Gardens
SunShare and Clean Energy Collective’s solar gardens provide approximately 39% of the energy for Engineering and Columbine Hall.
Total of 1,450,838 KWH in FY2016
Courtesy of The Gazette

16. Renewable Energy: Solar Photovoltaic
Alpine Garage Field
Osborne Center
Centennial Hall
Currently we have installed two photovoltaic systems on the campus through student initiatives and support from the Governors Green Buildings fund. The system currently installed on Centennial Hall is a 25kW system while the Osborne Center has a 13.6kW system. Thin Laminate System (This system was one of the first of its kind) New bio laminate systems are in the works showing systems that are nearly 38% efficient.
These systems produce about 3% of these buildings energy needs. With a cost avoidance of about $3,000 a year.
13 kW thin-film laminate system
25 kW panel
system
42 kW
panel system

17. Renewable Energy Certificates
UCCS bought 15,188,000 KWH of Renewable Energy
This is the equivalent of:
Growing 276,624 trees per year for ten years.
Taking 2,255 cars off the road for 1 year
Effective as of August 1, Approximately 62% of total electricity used in FY2016.
Not using 24,712 barrels of oil

18. Smart Living Pyramid
Introduction overview of the energy pyramid: Renewables, Efficiency, Conservation. Focus on Energy Efficiency-i.e. LEED Buildings.

19. Energy Efficiency: Leed Gold Buildings
Recreation Center
Osborne Center
Our LEED Gold buildings are designed to reduce energy use by over 30% from traditional buildings.
The Centennial building renovation is showing an 8% reduction in electricity, despite more equipment and technology and better air quality. This amounts to a potential $2500 in saving per month on the building.
Additional Notes: LEED Buildings: Energy efficiency helps to curb energy usage and carbon emissions. These buildings on our campus use around 30-34% less energy over traditional buildings. This is due to a number of technologies being incorporated, architectural components, and smart building practices. When the centennial was systems were upgraded to meet LEED standard we saw a decrease of 8% energy use.
Gallogly Events Center
Centennial Hall

20. Energy Efficiency: Leed Gold Buildings
Copper House
Eldora House
Our LEED Gold buildings are designed to reduce energy use by over 30% from traditional buildings.
The Centennial building renovation is showing an 8% reduction in electricity, despite more equipment and technology and better air quality. This amounts to a potential $2500 in saving per month on the building.
Lane Center
AOB

21. Energy Efficiency: Leed Gold Buildings
Cucharas
La Plata
Our LEED Gold buildings are designed to reduce energy use by over 30% from traditional buildings.
The Centennial building renovation is showing an 8% reduction in electricity, despite more equipment and technology and better air quality. This amounts to a potential $2500 in saving per month on the building.
Additional Notes: LEED Buildings: Energy efficiency helps to curb energy usage and carbon emissions. These buildings on our campus use around 30-34% less energy over traditional buildings. This is due to a number of technologies being incorporated, architectural components, and smart building practices. When the centennial was systems were upgraded to meet LEED standard we saw a decrease of 8% energy use.
San Juan
Roaring Fork

22. Energy Efficiency: Lighting
Daylight Sensors
Efficient Lighting
“De-Lamping”
Motion Sensors
Discuss some of the efforts that we have taken including lighting sensors, LED in the parking lots, uccs reduction in energy utilized around lighting. Also Delamping.
Additional focus on campus has been from de-lamping and replace old bulbs with higher efficiency bulbs. These bulbs on average reduce approx % of the energy use over older technologies.
LED’s

23. Energy Efficiency: HVAC
Heat Recovery Unit
VAV Fume Hoods
HRU: SENG and Centennial Hall Improved higher efficiency systems have been installed on a number of buildings in effort to reduce our energy use and carbon footprint.
Additional Notes if a question comes up:
Other Systems which have been incorporated include:
Heat Recovery Units: These units prevent loss of energy through a coil energy recovery system. When buildings are evacuated/exhaust passes over Coils in the heat recovery system. The energy exchanges from the air to the coils if hot and if cold absorbs the energy from the coils. (See. Law of Thermodynamics). When air from outside the building is brought into the system it passes over the coils allowing the transfer of energy from the coils to the air. Either Heating the air or removing energy from the air thereby cooling it.)
Variable Air Volume:
This system regulates the airflow in a building more efficiently than a traditional furnace or cooling system. This type of system takes into account air flow, temperature and humidity in producing an optimal comfort level. The engine for the system can operate a multiple levels and is not always on like a traditional systems. Given this systems focus on comfort rather than hot/cold it has added capacity for energy efficiency.
VAV Air Handlers
High-Efficiency Boilers

24. Water Efficiency: Dual-Flush Toilets
Plumbing efficiency: Low flow toilets with dual flow control. This can regulate the amount of water used in relations to need. These higher efficiency systems are important in curbing our water usage. Which is realized in cost avoidance given the increasing cost of water. Recently due to the Southern Delivery System which brings water from the Arkansas River to Colorado Springs is increasing water cost by 12%.

25. Water Efficiency: High-Efficiency Urinals
Water costs will increase 12% per year for the next several years to fund the Southern Delivery System (SDS) and other projects.

26. University Utility Costs

27. Energy Costs Avoided
Over $4M in energy costs avoided to date!

28. Smart Living Pyramid

29. Goals
Identify opportunities to improve building occupant comfort and provide a better work environment for employees,
Reduce measurable energy use and GHG emissions from user conservation behavior,
Inventory office energy use to establish benchmarks for reduction goals and identify opportunities for energy efficiency initiatives and cost savings,
Educate and engage the campus community about how they can reduce their carbon footprint and become more sustainable in their work environment.

30. Individual survey results are confidential!
Process
Individual survey results are confidential!
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31. is about you! Departments/Offices surveyed so far: Facilities Services
GES
Financial Aid
Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Chancellor’s Office
University Advancement
Student Recruitment
Residence Life
Kraemer Family Library
EH&S …

32. is about you! Have a Question, Comment, or Concern?
See a sustainability issue around campus?