The HPA Environmental Audit



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Weekly Update

Progress Report:

This week I summed up the data coming from the Tennis center and made a profile of the information which is found under April 22, 2015 and is also seen below:

General Energy Info:
We are finding that, generally, the lights within the tennis court consume from 5 - 8kW of energy. Each energy source uses different amounts of energy, as seen below:
- Tennis B: 5kW
- Tennis A: 6-7kW
- Tennis C: 8kW

General Light Info:
- Lights on in day time (at its peak): 500lux
- Lights off in day time (at its peak): 500lux
- Lights on at night time: 200lux
- Lights off at night time: around 0lux

I also found the lighting regulations for indoor tennis courts, found under April 25, 2015.

Up in Coming:

I will be discussing the next step with Dr. Bill.

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April 30, 2015

I found a great graph explaining the light regulations for indoor tennis courts, as seen below:

Source:
Co, Ur, Tes, and Y. G. "The Inside Track on Court Lighting." Court Lighting(n.d.): n. pag. Sportsbuilders. Oct. 2011. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

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April 29, 2015

Information Review:

General Energy Info:
We are finding that, generally, the lights within the tennis court consume from 5 - 8kW of energy. Each energy source uses different amounts of energy, as seen below:
- Tennis B: 5kW
- Tennis A: 6-7kW
- Tennis C: 8kW

General Light Info:
- Lights on in day time (at its peak): 500lux
- Lights off in day time (at its peak): 500lux
- Lights on at night time: 200lux
- Lights off at night time: around 0lux

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Weekly Update

Progress Report:

This week I have been taking note of the Tennis Court light levels during its highest and lowest peak or activity, or when during a hosted tennis meet and on sunday. I have found that the levels of light and energy used is consistent, as it should be, but depending on the day the levels and energy consumption will be higher or lower, as it should be depending on the activity in the tennis court.

Up in Coming:

I will be recording the light levels coming form the tennis center on days during the week, then discuss the next step with Dr. Bill.

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April 22, 2015

April 12, 2015

It can be assumed that on Sundays the tennis court is closed. Although from the data collected its hard to say whether the lights are on because the outside light can skew the lighting level.


The energy graph displays an energy consumption of 5-8kW between 8 A.M. - 5 P.M.



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April 15, 2015

April 11, 2015

I begin with this last Saturday because the "senior meet" was hosted at our Tennis court. It says that the meet went from 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.

It can be seen that the outside light affected the lighting levels. At its peak, it reaches 500lux at around 12:30 P.M. We can see that the inside light was turned on from around 8-9 P.M. with levels that reach 200lux.

We can see that the energy levels correspond with the previous graph. Although it is interesting to see that each bulb emits different amounts of energy, this may be contributed to the life of the bulb (i.e. the newer bulb will have the higher amount of energy uptake)

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Weekly Update

Progress Report:

This week Dr. Bill deployed nomad 5 to the tennis center, to detect the internal and external light levels. There are a couple of things we are looking at improving, let me share the information I reported on April 6, 2015:
Current Info:
~ Light: costs $12 per hour (and is on generally 15 hours a day)
~ USTA standards: requirements are not met
~ Roof: status=dirty

Possible improvements:
~ Roof: needs an internal and external pressure wash to allow optimal outside light inside/ optimal internal light to reflect off the walls.
~ Light: Switch to LED lights which use 60% less energy

We found that, with no external sunlight shining in, the internal light uses 8kw of energy.

Up in Coming:

I will be recording the light levels coming form the tennis center. I will then compile this data to make an evaluation of the lighting situation as a whole.

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April 13, 2015

The nomad has been deployed!

What we know:
-Lights levels are about 200lux and take up about 8kw of energy.
We know this specific light level because around 8PM, the inside light was active while the outside light was absent (as seen below).

We know the specific energy usage because of the corresponding graph below:


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April 6, 2015

The Tennis Center Lighting Project is a Go!

Nomad #5 will be deployed wednesday

Current Info:
~ Light: costs $12 per hour (and is on generally 15 hours a day)
~ USTA standards: requirements are not met
~ Roof: status=dirty

Possible improvements:
~ Roof: needs an internal and external pressure wash to allow optimal outside light inside/ optimal internal light to reflect off the walls.
~ Light: Switch to LED lights which use 60% less energy




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April 2, 2015

Up in Coming:

Part 1: Skylight project

Questions:

- Do our classrooms meet LEED classroom lighting standards?

- Are the light bulbs adequate?


Possible Solutions (probably starting in the Language Building):

- Passively lit classrooms *augment normal lighting with sky lights

- Change lights to LED bulbs


Part 2: Implement Light Meter

-Tells light levels and colors- spectrometer *temperature


Part 3: Tennis center

Questions:

- are they adequate? Do they vary?

Possible Solutions:

- Roof is dirty (pressure wash to reflect light)

- Possibly input the white light/ right color light (buy 20 of them and test tennis court in pediment and around the court)

- *If it works we will change all lights to LED's (don't produce heat and are quite)


Part 4: The rest of the campus

If it works (implement in gym and gpac, etc.)

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Quarter 3 Summary



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Weekly Update

Progress Report:

This week I finished my analysis of the English Buildings and found that most of the rooms had matching CO2 and Light peaks, meaning that this correlation proves that the classrooms are active (in terms of CO2, lighting and sound) when there are students within it. Although I also found that there was more CO2 the most classrooms, meaning that there are either too many students within one class at a time, or there isn't sufficient ventilation. The light seems to be mostly artificial.

Up in Coming:

I will be moving onto the Social Studies building. Classroom/ Nomad configuration is as seen below:
Classroom Nomad
11 1
12 2
13 3
14 4




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February 23, 2015

February 19, 2015
Nomad Data Compilation: English Building


Nomad 1: Room 4


From 12:00 A.M.- Midnight, or 00:00-23:00 (military time), one of the most notable changes that can be seen are the spikes in light from 6:00 A.M.- 1:40 P.M., starting at around -30lux, peaking at around 460lux, then returning to -30lux over time as the sun set. These peaks in light are probably contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. It can also be noted that the CO2 readings peak during the same time the light peaks. The highest peaks in CO2 is approximately 580ppm. Lastly, humidity, and temperature stay relatively level. Humidity seems to flatten at around 60% with several non-notable peaks. Whereas temperature seems to even out at around 70°F through. Sound level has a couple of small peaks, but mainly centers around 40dB from around 12:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. Although from around 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. there are several peaks that form reaching 70dB, but after, return to 40dB. These peaks in CO2, light, and sound may be contributed to A (containing 9 students) period World Literature and other influences right outside of the classroom.


Nomad 2: Room 5

From 12:00 A.M.- Midnight, or 00:00-23:00 (military time), one of the most notable changes that can be seen are the spikes in light from 8:00 A.M.- 4:00 P.M., starting at around -30lux, peaking at around 520lux, then returning to -30lux over time as the sun set. These peaks in light are probably contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. It can also be noted that the CO2 readings peak during the same time the light peaks. The highest peaks in CO2 is approximately 590ppm. Lastly, humidity, and temperature stay relatively level. Humidity seems to flatten at around 60% with several non-notable peaks. Whereas temperature seems to even out at around 70°F through. Sound level has a couple of small peaks, but mainly centers around 40dB from around 12:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. Although from around 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. there are several peaks that form reaching 70dB, but after, return to 40dB. These peaks in CO2, light, and sound may be contributed to F (containing 13 people) and A (containing 17 people) period English Essentials and Poetry.


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Weekly Summary

Progress Report:
This week I started analyzing the data that the Nomads had picked up from classrooms 4 and 5. I am finding that room 5 has higher levels CO2 buildup reaching to around 800ppm where most classroom average 500-600ppm.

Up in Coming:

I will continue to analyze the data for at two more days and refer to Dr. Bill on the "next step".

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February 19, 2015

February 18, 2015
Nomad Data Compilation: English Building


Nomad 1: Room 4

From 12:00 A.M.- Midnight, or 00:00-23:00 (military time), one of the most notable changes that can be seen are the spikes in light from 8:00 A.M.- 2:00 P.M., starting at around -30lux, peaking at around 440lux, then returning to -30lux over time as the sun set. These peaks in light are probably contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. It can also be noted that the CO2 readings peak during the same time the light peaks. The highest peaks in CO2 is approximately 600ppm. Lastly, humidity, and temperature stay relatively level. Humidity seems to flatten at around 60% with several non-notable peaks. Whereas temperature seems to even out at around 70°F through. Sound level has a couple of small peaks, but mainly centers around 40dB from around 12:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. Although from around 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. there are several peaks that form reaching 70dB, but after, return to 40dB. These peaks in CO2, light, and sound may be contributed to A (containing 9 students) period World Literature and other outside influences.'


Nomad 2: Room 5

From 12:00 A.M.- Midnight, or 00:00-23:00 (military time), one of the most notable changes that can be seen are the spikes in light from 8:00 A.M.- 2:00 P.M., starting at around -30lux, peaking at around 440lux, then returning to -30lux over time as the sun set. These peaks in light are probably contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. It can also be noted that the CO2 readings peak during the same time the light peaks. The highest peaks in CO2 is approximately 800ppm. Lastly, humidity, and temperature stay relatively level. Humidity seems to flatten at around 60% with several non-notable peaks. Whereas temperature seems to even out at around 70°F through. Sound level has a couple of small peaks, but mainly centers around 40dB from around 12:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. Although from around 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. there are several peaks that form reaching 70dB, but after, return to 40dB. These peaks in CO2, light, and sound may be contributed to F (containing 13 students) and A (containing 17 students) English Essentials and Poetry.



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February, 18 2015

February 17, 2015
Nomad Data Compilation: English Building


Room 4: Nomad 1
From 12:00 A.M.- Midnight, or 00:00-23:00 (military time), one of the most notable changes that can be seen are the spikes in light from 8:00 A.M.- 12:00 P.M., starting at around -30lux, peaking at around 430lux, then returning to -30lux over time as the sun set. These peaks in light are probably contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. It can also be noted that the CO2 readings peak during the same time the light peaks. The highest peaks in CO2 is approximately 600ppm. Lastly, humidity, and temperature stay relatively level. Humidity seems to flatten at around 60% with several non-notable peaks. Whereas temperature seems to even out at around 70°F through. Sound level has a couple of small peaks, but mainly centers around 40dB from around 12:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. Although from around 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. there are several peaks that form reaching 60dB, but after, return to 40dB. These peaks in CO2, light, and sound may be contributed to B (containing 15 students), C (containing 12 students) and E (containing 16 students) periods World Literature Honors, and Good and Evil Literature.

Room 5: Nomad 2
From 9:00 A.M.- Midnight, or 00:00-23:00 (military time), one of the most notable changes that can be seen are the spikes in light from 9:00 A.M.- 10:00 P.M., starting at around -30lux, peaking at around 450lux, then returning to -30lux over time as the sun set. These peaks in light are probably contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. It can also be noted that the CO2 readings peak during the same time the light peaks. The highest peaks in CO2 is approximately 800ppm. Lastly, humidity, and temperature stay relatively level. Humidity seems to flatten at around 60% with several non-notable peaks. Whereas temperature seems to even out at around 70°F through. Sound level has a couple of small peaks, but mainly centers around 40dB from around 12:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. Although from around 8:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. there are several peaks that form reaching 60dB, but after, return to 40dB. These peaks in CO2, light, and sound may be contributed to B (containing 19 students), and C (containing 10 students) period English Essentials.

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February, 16 2015

Deployed the Nomads into the English building:

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Week Summary

Progress Report:

This week I started analyzing the data that the Nomads had picked up from the English building. I found that most of the light readings were contributed to the time the artificial light was active and non active within the classroom. I also found that the highest CO2 count was 800ppm, the average for each classroom is around 550ppm.

Up in Coming:

I will continue analyzing the data, in rooms 4 and 5.

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February, 12 2015

I have got the go ahead for moving the Nomads in on Friday.

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