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Success: It’s All In the Numbers

Success: It’s All In the Numbers. Steve Tolley Assistant Director; Grounds, Building Services, Sustainability Alex Davis Coordinator, Sustainability Office. Overview. Why are numbers important? How do I get numbers? Sustainable Outdoor Signs Printing Reduction

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Success: It’s All In the Numbers

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  1. Success: It’s All In the Numbers Steve Tolley Assistant Director; Grounds, Building Services, Sustainability Alex Davis Coordinator, Sustainability Office

  2. Overview • Why are numbers important? • How do I get numbers? • Sustainable Outdoor Signs • Printing Reduction • Residence Hall Energy Conservation

  3. Why are numbers important? • Before a project: • Help everyone to understand the scale • Provide a self-check for passionate sustainability professionals and students • During/After a project: • Prove the value of your project over time. • Add credibility for future projects

  4. How do I get numbers? • Measurement opportunities: • Direct measures • Materials savings from avoided consumption • Indirect measures • Unrecognized labor savings • Hidden counters • Set up a tracking system in advance! • Baseline • Progress

  5. Foam-core Signs • Babson spent over $10,000 per year on single-use foam-core outdoor directional signs

  6. Re-Usable Signs Examples Created by: Dunbar Signs eventsigns.biz

  7. Solid Waste: Sustainable Signs • Re-useable sign metrics • Clear financial savings • $25/sign vs .$0.15/paper • Saved $10,000 per year vs. $6000 initial investment • 400 foam board signs avoided per year • Hidden benefits • Facilities staff save time setting up • Improves campus aesthetics • Basic cost comparison = prove the point

  8. Purchasing: Printing Services • Worked with Purchasing to ensure that sustainability was a key part of the RFP • Contract is service based vs. volume based • Vendor is now a partner in the savings • Second year-on-year savings ($20,000 savings)

  9. Printing Metrics • Remove old machines that only print single sided • Installed multi-function devices that print double sided by default • Engaged campus community to generate savings • Undergraduate dean reached out to heavy printers • Email campaign partnership between IT, Purchasing, and Sustainability

  10. Babson Unplugged • Historically- significant energy waste during winter break shutdown (New England winter!) • Unplugged program used engagement to encourage conservation efforts: • Unplug appliances- including refrigerator • Turn off lights • Turn down heat • Windows closed

  11. Babson Unplugged • Every room was inspected to correlate personal action and savings • Heat turned down • Windows closed • Electronics unplugged • Lights off • Refrigerator unplugged • Recording using technology

  12. Babson Unplugged • Perfect Unplugged Floors: • 2010: 2 • 2011: 12 • 2012: 7 • New tracking tool • Near perfect floor count jumped drastically in FY12 • Numbers provide a corrective nudge: • Need to increase outreach in 2013 given decrease in results from prior year

  13. Thank You & Questions Steve Tolley Assistant Director; Grounds, Building Services, Sustainability stolley@babson.edu 781-239-4253 Alex Davis Coordinator, Sustainability Office adavis@babson.edu 614-353-6036

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