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Energy Conservation Measures


As part of KU's performance contract with Chevron Energy Solutions, $18.3 million of energy and water conservation measures were installed across campus. These ECMs include:
  • Lighting retrofit: 20,000 fixtures. Typically (4) 40-watt lamps each. Replaced with (2) 32-watt lamp fixtures with electronic (faster starting/less energy-consuming) ballasts. Added reflectors which makes new arrangement provide more down-lighting than the previous arrangement.
  • Changed out some major heating and cooling equipment with more efficient systems and improved existing efficiency and operation of existing systems that were not replaced.
  • Added flow restrictors to some process-water outlets in Malott Hall.
  • Replaced almost all automatic flushing mechanisms in handicapped stalls to reduce flow rates.
  • Adjust flow rates in almost all standard commodes and urinals to reduce flow rates.
  • Upgraded and expanded existing Building Automation and Control System
  • Installed new underground piping to allow Malott, Wescoe and Summerfield to use the same chilled water generating equipment in the Chiller Plant whereby that system can produce chilled water for air conditioning more efficiently than the individual units in the three buildings did.
  • Upgraded the main electrical distribution on campus for more reliability and efficiency
  • Installed solar film on windows in some buildings to reduce solar load for more efficient air conditioning
  • Installed six dozen programmable thermostats to provide for setting buildings to unoccupied temperatures daily where they ran 24/7 previously
  • Replaced lighting in Robinson Recreation Center gymnasiums and racquetball courts to include more efficient instant-on fluorescent lighting with occupancy sensors all of which provides better and greater levels of lighting at lower costs.