Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
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Transformative Data Access:Helping Students Writethe Sustainability Story
Drew BasingerDoug Willson
Appalachian State UniversityBoone, NC
October 15, 2012
I wonder how sustainable
ASU is?
AASHE:STARS
ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS
DATA RETRIEVAL DATA DISSEMINATION
3rd PARTY RATINGS
Leadership
ACUPCC:GHG Inventory
Office of Sustainability
Princeton Review:
98 of 99
SierraClub:
“Cool”
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INITIAL UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION
All the departments & entities at ASU
All the departments & entities at ASU
AASHE:STARS
Princeton Review:
98 /99
SierraClub:
“Cool”
ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS
AUTOMATIC, REAL-TIME, INTERACTIVE DATA RETRIEVAL & DISSEMINATION
3rd PARTY RATINGS
Leadership: Admin &Sustainability Council
DEEPENING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING
ACUPCC:GHG Inventory
Office of Sustainability
(w/?)
All the departments & entities at ASU
AASHE:STARS
Princeton Review:
98 /99
SierraClub:
“Cool”
ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS
AUTOMATIC, REAL-TIME, INTERACTIVE DATA RETRIEVAL & DISSEMINATION
3rd PARTY RATINGS
Leadership: Admin &Sustainability Council
ACUPCC:GHG Inventory
Office of Sustainability
(w/?)
Ah haaah!...Now I see it!
ACTION
AND BEHAVIORAND BEHAVIOR
TRANSFORMATIVE SUSTAINABILITY DATA
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Energy Savings Performance Contract (2009) • Upgrades to HVAC systems• Energy efficient lighting• Install a 2,000-square-foot green roof• Metasys software from Johnson Controls
Process
MetasysBuilding automation software
• Building management• Intelligent energy use• Energy reporting system*
Using Metasys as…• Building automation• Data source for
• Lighting• Heating • Cooling
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Metasys Data
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Selecting a BuildingSummit Residence Hall
• Newly completed Residence Hall• Opened Fall 2012• Build to LEED standards• Metasys controls installed
Technical Specs• 9 floors• 19 rooms per floor• 38 students per floor
Monitoring• Heating loads• Cooling loads• Lighting• 5% of plug loads*
Outreach• Scheduled meetings with selected floors• Briefly described our idea• Demonstrated the website• Total of 20 students• Hung up flyers and cards with URL
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Telling the StoryDevelop dynamic website
• www.watch-your-watts.com• Create database• Import Metasys data• PHP and MySQL
AnalyticsGoogle Analytics
• Track page views• New vs. Returning visitors• Top content• Great tool for analyzing
websites
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
What effect will this data accessibility have?
1. Right to know2. Opening the gates to Research (20,000 minds to meet the challenge)
Ex) match comparison3. Great questions:
How come the 2nd floor uses so much cooling?Old library v. new library
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Example of Matching Analysis
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Cooling Loads for 7th Floor v. 8th Floor
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7th (treatment) 8th (control) 8th uses more cooling by
energy for cooling (kWh)
prelaunch 838.8 883.0 5.3%
post launch 2615.0 2604.7 -0.4%
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
What happened?
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Cooling Loads by Floor
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Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story
Future Initiatives• Streamline data collection
• Automate process• Real-time capabilities
• Add renewable energy systems• Monitoring all buildings on campus• Functionality (DL data, heat/cool set points)
Benefits• Analyze building performance• Analyze Metasys software• Ownership and accountability for energy usage• Research opportunities• Students write their own sustainability story
Next Steps
Questions
Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story