Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story

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”

TheApp.

INITIAL UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION

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



(w/?)


AASHE:STARS

Princeton Review:

98 /99

SierraClub:

“Cool”

ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS

AUTOMATIC, REAL-TIME, INTERACTIVE DATA RETRIEVAL & DISSEMINATION

3rd PARTY RATINGS

Leadership: Admin &Sustainability Council



(w/?)

Ah haaah!...Now I see it!

ACTION

AND BEHAVIORAND BEHAVIOR

TRANSFORMATIVE SUSTAINABILITY DATA

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


Metasys Data



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



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


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


Example of Matching Analysis

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Cooling Loads for 7th Floor v. 8th Floor

7th (treatment)8th (control)

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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%


What happened?

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Cooling Loads by Floor

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Axis Title



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


Documents

Transformative Data Access: Helping Students Write the Sustainability Story