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(Engineers for a Sustainable World)

UIEC
UI Environmental Coalition

Student Projects
Course # 053:107 Sustainable Systems, Jerry Schnoor and Chris Mutel 2007

Poster Campaign
Two poster campaigns are underway to help promote energy conservation awareness. UI Student Groups, MidAmerican Energy and Facilities Management partnered in raising campus awareness of Energy Conservation. The posters, which proclaim "When not in use, turn off the juice" and "Save some green" have been placed in Cambus buses and general-education buildings on campus.

The energy-saving campaign comes after the General Education Fund Task Force recommended that the university reduce the annual utilities budget by $1.5 million over the next three years. The posters, provided by MidAmerican Energy, will stay up for approximately six months.

UI Compost Project - This report proposes that a pilot project be implemented that utilizes the City of Iowa City’s Landfill facilities and expertise to compost about 52 tons of food waste in a year from Hillcrest’s Food Services. The potential educational and environmental gains from this project are substantial, as is the chance for the University of Iowa to become a community leader in sustainable waste disposal practices.
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Energy Efficiency Team: (left to right) Shirley Stern, Brian Janke, Sarah Rolfes, Andrew Feldick. Not Pictured: Erendira Vargas Ayala

 Energy Efficiency - The projects scope is energy conservation  throughout the entirety of the University of Iowa Campus. The  Project is comprised of several main components: Poster campaign,  KRUI advertisement, Corps of Volunteers, the ITS paper project and  an RA Training Program. The energy conservation campaign will  provide a forum of information through which people could organize  and act. By presenting users with information and organization The  University of Iowa will dramatically reduce energy consumption and  the negative effects associated with it. (presentation)

 

 

Green Roof Design - The green roof team is hoping that some of the questions concerning green roofs can be answered and some of the benefits of green roofs can be displayed by retrofitting a green roof to the Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory (IIHR) here on the University of Iowa campus. The information presented in the following paper will provide the objectives of the retrofit, a site description, and the methodology used in designing the green roof. In addition, the cost benefits from the addition of the green roof will be presented, followed by a discussion of results and conclusions reached with some recommendations.
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Wind Energy Group: (left to right) Egill Thorbergsson, Sarah Luebbert, Bill Wombacher, Eric Flower, and Christopher Miller.

 Wind Project - The University of Iowa currently operates and  maintains a co-generation power plant, three chilled water plants, a  water plant on the main campus as well as satellite facilities located  at the Oakdale Campus. The university’s co-generation power plant  burns approximately sixty tons of oat hulls per day in an attempt to  become more energy independent while also being sustainable. The  addition of a wind turbine will help in this effort and bring the  University of Iowa to the head of the class in the state’s renewable  energy discipline. Although one wind turbine will not solve the need  for energy alone, it along with other forms of renewable energy used  by the university is a push in the right direction towards a more  sustainable world. (presentation)