EcoHall Challenge
From Ecologic
The EcoHall Challenge is a competition among the freshman hill residence halls, where they compete against one another to see who can use the least amount of energy. The goal is to reduce energy use, build residence hall community, and educate the freshman population on energy conservation leading to lifelong good habits. The EcoHall Challenge is a joint effort by the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Ecologic.
Participating residence halls include Hall, Cary, Barton, Bray, Crockett, and Nason halls. Currently BARH and Quad residents are unable to participate because their power meters are tied to the dining halls there, making it impossible to take accurate readings of resident power consumption.
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[edit] EcoHall Challenge 2009
- Will be held from March 15th to the April 26th (5 weeks long)
- Ecohall Committee Meetings Sunday at 7:00 in Nason Classroom and Wednesdays at 6:00 in EEC
- Ideas:
- Get a CFL company to sponsor the challenge
- Come up with ideas for hall programs to educate students about reducing their energy costs.
- Encourage all residents to find a level of participation that challenges their lifestyle.
- Advertising for single-stream recycling program
- Create design for T-shirts
- Create hall programs for event kickoff
- Notebook making program in progress
[edit] How the Results are Determined
<Note: Sorry, I couldn't get the math to work. Copy-pasting this into a [Wikipedia sandbox] will show the equation.>
The winning hall will have the lowest average from this equation:
- <math> \frac{ \sum_{1}^W \left ( \frac{(P_{\text{week}} - P_{\text{baseline}})}{capita} \right)}{W} </math>
which will be averaged over the 6 weeks of the competition, where:
- <math>P_{\text{week}}</math> = The power consumption of the week.
- <math>P_{\text{baseline}}</math> = The power consumption of the baseline building usage.
- <math>capita</math> = Population of the hall.
- <math>W</math> = The number of weeks of competition.
This equation will allow halls with larger populations to compete with smaller halls and subtracting out building power consumption, which is higher in buildings like Barton, leaving only human consumption in the equation.
[edit] Results from Eco-Hall Challenge 2009
Results will be posted in conspicuous places around Freshman Hill and announced on WRPI weekly, as well as updated here.
- Large graph on the stairwell wall in commons atrium with every hall and their progress.
Weekly readings: Coming Soon!
[edit] Results from Eco-Hall Challenges Past
2007 Eco-Hall Winner: CROCKETT HALL! Congratulations!
2008 Eco-Hall Winner: CARY HALL! Congratulations!
[edit] Door Hangers
Check out the design for the door hangers. Leave your comments!
Ella- can you post the final 3 designs on here, and maybe the files to for people to use in future years? -Sam
The RPI Bookstore has their semesterly Cash for Books campaign to bring in books for their used book section. As part of their advertising this semester, they distributed door hangers through on campus mailboxes. They have a perforated cutout and sturdy paper that seem to work well. We should ask them where they got them and consider using that source for our door hangers. -- Jendrd 23:19, 17 December 2007 (EST)
- Definitely. -Frank 12:32, 19 December 2007 (EST)
[edit] Eco Hall Challenge Tips:
The tips below were written by RA Nat last year and distributed to Crockett Hall (the winner in 2007). We could distribute these and/or expnd/edit them as needed.
- Use ambient light (windows). At ~18 watts/hr per fluorescent tube we save about 5000 watts/hr by having the lights off. If you need more light, be sure to use a fluorescent instead of a high intensity desk lamp as the 60 and 80 watt bulbs in those are actually less efficient than the large fluorescent tubes.
- Use headphones. A 1000 watt surround sound speaker system uses about 995 more watts/hr than headphones... and nobody else needs to hear you blasting Michelle Branch
- Use cool settings on washers and dryers. Our washers use about 500 watts/hr on cool setting as opposed to 800 watts/hr on hot. The dryers use ~1400 watts/hr on cool and ~2300 watts/hr on hot.
- Don't even use the dryer. Save a dollar and a minimum of 1400 watts of energy. RA Nat has fishing line and cloths pins if you want to try hanging stuff on your room. He also has an example of hanging clothes in his room currently if you want to see how you can lay it out.
- Don't multitask electronically. If you're doing your homework, watching a movie, or even playing a game on your laptop, try turning off other electronic distractions such as radios of TVs and vice versa.
- Use the community refrigerator/microwave. We have a large refrigerator and microwave in the first floor lounge, try unplugging yours for the rest of the month and just using these options instead.
These are probably the biggest energy savers in the hall, if you want to get more nitpicky about things so we can really obliterate the other halls in this competition talk to RA Nat or LA Tara.
