Date posted: June 13, 2012
Two and a half months ago, a group of students in Nancy Gonlin’s class, worked on a very interesting project. They began to observe and collect data on the usage of the trash cans and recycle bins all around campus. Their findings indicated that there was a lot more work needed to be done so ...more about Student’s Evaluation Shows Recycling Improvement
Date posted: June 7, 2012
Article written by Roger Ewald Projector lamps cost around $300 dollars each and last about 2,000 hours on average. Projectors consume about 300 watts with the lamp operating. The service life of a projector is directly related to its operating hours. Projectors last about 4 years on average before they fail and cost about $1,500 ...more about Projector Lamps: Save Energy
Date posted: May 22, 2012
Bellevue College is striving to make greener purchases. In Quarter 2, 2011 approximately 57% of Bellevue College spending was green. According to the Green Office Depot Product report, approximately 43% spending was on non-green products, 49% was on recycled product while 7% was on re-manufactured products. We our trying to implement greener products and there ...more about Greener Office Purchasing
Date posted: March 22, 2012
Bellevue College Student Sustainability Coordinators visited offices around campus and replaced about 70 old, energy-intensive incandescent light bulbs in desk lamps with new, state-of-the -art LEDs. Everybody’s familiar with Edison’s old incandescent which have been around for 133 years but many people are in the dark (HDHH) about LEDs which are basically a computer chip that puts ...more about A Bright Idea
Date posted: March 16, 2012
March to Savings is a no-cost call to action to educate and encourage Washington state employees to reduce the use of energy in state government buildings during March 2012. Governor Gregoire encourages all Washington state employees to participate in the March to Savings! Each of Washington's 100,000 state employees has control over some of their ...more about March to Savings
Date posted: February 24, 2012
Here is a quick update on what’s been going on with BC2Eco-Office Survey. If anyone needs a refresher as to what BC2 stands for, it is ‘Bellevue College x Beyond Conservation = BC2’. This program was developed to monitor the level of sustainability maintained in campus offices. Student auditors examine the office buildings on campus and ...more about BC2 Eco-Office Update!
Date posted: January 25, 2012
Over the last few months Bellevue College has undergone an energy audit of lighting, water and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems on main campus as part of the Washington State Energy Savings Energy Performance Contracting Program. That audit is now complete and the College is reviewing proposals that would reduce energy and water consumption ...more about Lighting Retrofits Proposed for Main Campus
Date posted: December 21, 2011
We are getting free efficient light bulbs from Puget Sound Energy for task and floor lamps in Bellevue College offices. Student Sustainability team members will be making the rounds to all offices on campus this week to identify the task and floor lamps for our request to PSE. Each lamp on campus will be tallied ...more about Bellevue College Light Check!
Date posted: November 5, 2011
In 2008 Bellevue College took a giant leap in energy conservation by implementing schedules for our heating, ventilation and air conditioning that matched building occupancy in an initiative by Controls Technician Robert (Bob) Herbruger. At the beginning of each quarter Bob programs the HVAC system to match the course schedule and daily he review the events ...more about On Demand HVAC
Date posted: August 5, 2011
In 2008 Robert Herbruger conducted an analysis of Campus HVAC equipment operating schedules which indicated that savings could be achieved by reducing the equipment operating times to coincide with area-served occupancy. In 2008 most Campus HVAC equipment was scheduled to start at either 6:00 a.m.or 6:30 a.m., and run continuously until 10:00 p.m.or11:00p.m. Most of ...more about Energy (only) When We Need It
