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Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story Drew Basinger Doug Willson Appalachian State University Boone, NC October 15, 2012

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I wonder how sustainable ASU is? AASHE: STARS ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS DATA RETRIEVAL DATA DISSEMINATION 3 rd PARTY RATINGS Leadership ACUPCC: GHG Inventory Office of Sustainability Princeton Review: 98 of 99 Sierra Club: Cool The App. INITIAL UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION All the departments & entities at ASU

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AASHE: STARS Princeton Review: 98 /99 Sierra Club: Cool ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS AUTOMATIC, REAL-TIME, INTERACTIVE DATA RETRIEVAL & DISSEMINATION 3 rd PARTY RATINGS Leadership: Admin & Sustainability Council DEEPENING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING ACUPCC: GHG Inventory Office of Sustainability (w/?)

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All the departments & entities at ASU AASHE: STARS Princeton Review: 98 /99 Sierra Club: Cool ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS AUTOMATIC, REAL-TIME, INTERACTIVE DATA RETRIEVAL & DISSEMINATION 3 rd PARTY RATINGS Leadership: Admin & Sustainability Council ACUPCC: GHG Inventory Office of Sustainability (w/?) Ah haaah!...Now I see it!

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TRANSFORMATIVE SUSTAINABILITY DATA Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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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

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Metasys Building 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

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Metasys Data Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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Selecting a Building Summit 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*

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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

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Telling the Story Develop dynamic website www.watch-your-watts.com Create database Import Metasys data PHP and MySQL

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Analytics Google Analytics Track page views New vs. Returning visitors Top content Great tool for analyzing websites Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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What effect will this data accessibility have? 1.Right to know 2.Opening the gates to Research (20,000 minds to meet the challenge) Ex) match comparison 3.Great questions: How come the 2 nd floor uses so much cooling? Old library v. new library Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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Example of Matching Analysis 7th (treatment)8th (control) 8th uses more cooling by energy for cooling (kWh) prelaunch838.8883.05.3% post launch2615.02604.7-0.4% Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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What happened? Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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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

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Questions Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story