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