lawn mower gas usage

i talked to ron chapman about where it would be appropriate to put information reguarding the gasoline usage of the ground maintenence mowers and this is what he told me in a nutshell:


Josh -Just to confirm our conversation that regarding gasoline use for other than transportation purposes, we had considered that the appropriate means would be to quantify fleet gasoline purchases, determine that portion used for fleet use and that the balance would fall under the "OTHER" category for university fleet gasoline use for mowers - grounds maintenance etc.Ron

Update on survey and solutions

I met with Ron Chapman last Friday and Ed Newman today about potential solutions and what is currently being done to reduce waste/energy especially in the dorms. Ed is going to look into dollar values saved in the past through recycling initiatives and see what previous data he can find. Additionally I have an email contact regarding who can send out a web-survey and am waiting to hear a reply before sending off the IRB. That's all for now...

One more thing...Ed Newman has data on recycling and waste if anyone is working on that...

Full-time and part-time students

I spent the morning at the Institutional Research office going through enrollment data from 1990 - 1995. Data from 1995 - current is available from their website (I received instruction from Serena McCollum on how to retrieve the information that I need). One task completed, a thousand more to go. : )

Project Scope for Building Inventory

Hi everyone -

We met with Ron Chapman last week to determine the objectives and goals for the project being done by the Building Team.

This is a copy of the document that Ron sent me regarding the nature of our project as we all see it -

"PROJECT SCOPE:

PART 1

Develop a complete listing of the main campus (Athens) buildings, their square footage and the various utilities they have. In addition, identify whether they have metering in place for these utilities; electric (AEP or OU distributed), natural gas and steam.

Ø A base file Building Metering.xls has the start of a complete listing.
Ø Buildings for which we have OU electric metering are included in the file named OU Electric Meter Readings 06-07(copy).xls I’ve added the building numbers into the current version of the file OU Electric Meter Readings 06-07(copy2).xls that should assist you in your effort
Ø Buildings for which we have AEP electric metering are in AEP Electric 07-08.xls file
Ø Buildings for which we have Columbis Gas metering are in Nat Gas 07-08.xls file
Ø Water meters are for those accounts as listed in the Water Invoice FY06-07.xls Please note that I’ve compiled a cross-reference listing of those buildings with individual water meters and their building numbers in a tab named Bldgs included within the file Water Invoice FY07-08.xls


PART 2

Using supplied data, determine the amount of energy per square foot (MMBTU/ft2) in campus buildings. I would suggest that you start with a small group of buildings and work your way through the complete list as time permits.

Ø Electric use data is available in OU Electric Meter Readings 06-07(copy).xls
Ø Natural Gas use data in available in Nat Gas 07-08.xls Summary data for Natural Gas use (annual) is found in NAT GAS DATA.xls
Ø Water use data for FY07 is available in Water Invoice FY06-07.xls
Ø I’ve compiled a cross-reference listing of those buildings with individual water meters and their building numbers in a tab named Bldgs included within the file Water Invoice FY07-08.xls
Ø Common identifier (Building Number is available in part in each data file for Nat Gas, AEP Electric and Building Square Footage files
Ø The hard copy document titled All Campuses All Buildings has the building numbers to be used as a common identifier. In most cases, the number has already been incorporated into the data files but you may need to add these numbers to others."

All the files listed here will be posted on blackboard as soon as possible...

Drew

Building info

i got some information on the building square footage from Diane Mack the other day. i tried to post it on the Bb drop bok, but there seems to be a problem with my flash drive. look for it monday, i'll be using the universities computers.

josh

Fertilizer

we should be hearing from the fertilizer guy by the end of this week (tomorrow). he'll have the numbers as far back as he can go, he'll also have the tonnage bought each year, the organic/synthetic ammounts, as well as the N-P-K ratios of it all. with that info i can figure just how much nitrogen has been dumped on the lawn in the last ten years. that should be cool, or maybe it'll be scary.

last week we got the most current version of the carbon calculator from ron chapman, it should be a big help with our project.

i just sent an e-mail to Diane Mack, she shold be able to finally provide us with accurate numbers for the building square footage. i'll post her reply, than maybe i'll finally bean active part of this blog.

everyone please remember the copy of the carbon calculator should be on the Bb site by the end of the night... as long as i can figure it out. please feel free to contact me if any one needs some help doing ANYthing.

Josh

Solutions

Southern Oregon University passed a bill to add $15 to every college bill so that they could offset their energy use.

This passed with 85% of the vote of their student body.
The offsets are for both their electric use and natural gas use.

In our survey we could ask the student body the amount of money they would be willing to pay for offsets.

This is the link to the website if anybody would like to take a closer look.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/students_vote_t.php

GIS files

Yesterday Matt sent me the GIS files he got from Dave Simon. Thanks, Matt!

Looking through the files, they are spiffy. We got athletic field outlines (including the mini-golf yard at the ridges), the golf course, parking lots, some campus roads, water, and of course buildings. The buildings file especially has ALL campus buildings, including the ones in Albany at the OU airport. I'll have to double check to see if that includes buildings we lease. Attached data includes fun things like when the building was built and whether or not it is occupied (OU has 10 derelict buildings on campus). Together with Athens county material like roads and towns, we're well set.

I'm not sure how to put this stuff somewhere the class can reach. Do only the GIS team need to access the data? Ideas?

P3 International Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor

Here's the link for the Kill-a-Watt meter at Amazon.com. It seems pretty cool.

Comparison schools

I am looking into several of the schools (though not to overlap with Chong Wu and Donny) that have posted their tech report of the inventory results on the clean air cool planet website. Potential solutions can be discussed tomorrow in class.

Additionally, I will contact Ed Newman regarding what is involved in the residence challenge and recycle mania or who to contact about that.

Hasta manana~