AchievingLaboratoryEnergyEfficiencyandSustainableProcurement

throughEco-labelsàLabRefrigerationandEnergyStar

AllenDoyle,UCDavisSustainabilityManager,MSChemicalOceanography

OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

What’sSoCoolabout“Procurement”?

• Soundslikeadentalfixative…ewww…

What’sSoCoolabout“Procurement”?

–BUT!!!• UCspentBILLIONSonGoodsandServiceslastyear• Let’sAddGREENinaprofessionalway• ThirdPartyCertificationsmakeiteasy

BuyGREEN: BackGround•Whylabspendingmatters• HowLabStuffgetsBought•WhatLabsBuyØBringingEnergyStartoLabFreezers—11Years,andCounting

$8.8BGoodsandServicesUniversityofCalifornia,

FiscalYear2016

$4.4BSpendonGoodsUniversityofCalifornia,FY2016

BuildingConstructionLifeSciencesMROITandTelecomUnclassifiedSubawardsTravelFoodUtilitiesOutofScopePublishedProductsOEEPrintandMarketing

$4.4BSpendonGoodsUniversityofCalifornia,FY2016

BuildingConstruction

LifeSciencesMRO

ITandTelecom

Unclassified

Subawards

Travel

Food

Utilities

OutofScope

PublishedProducts

OEE

$701M

$4.4BSpendonGoodsUniversityofCalifornia,FY2016

BuildingConstruction

LifeSciencesMRO

ITandTelecom

UnclassifiedSubawards

Travel

Food

Utilities

OutofScope

PublishedProducts

OEE

$428M

$701M

“TailSpend”

HowOffice StuffgetsBought

1. DepartmentalPurchasingOffice2. TransactionalProcurementTeam3. StrategicSourcingTeam• NegotiateContracts,Compliance

HowLabStuffgetsBought

1. PI’s(1,000atUCDavis)• Staffx2• PostDocs+GradStudentsx5

2. DepartmentalPurchasingOffice3. TransactionalProcurementTeam4. StrategicSourcingTeam• NegotiateContracts,Compliance

Who’swatchingforSustainability?1. PI’s(1,000atUCDavis)• Staffx2• PostDocs+GradStudentsx5

2. DepartmentalPurchasingOffice3. TransactionalProcurementTeam4. StrategicSourcingTeam• NegotiateContracts,Compliance

Who’swatchingforSustainability?1. PI’s(1,000atUCDavis)• Staffx2• PostDocs+GradStudentsx5

2. DepartmentalPurchasingOffice3. TransactionalProcurementTeam4. StrategicSourcingTeam• NegotiateContracts,Compliance

“IreallybelievethisUCcanmakeadifference.”

JulieAlvarez- UCProcurementOfficer

$4.4BSpendonGoodsUniversityofCalifornia,FY2016

Buyingforsustainability

raisesstrategic

awarenessandmayhelpstay“on-contract”.

“TailSpend”

WhatdoLabsBuy?

– Equipment… >$5,000• Analytic “makesdata”• Process “providesservice”

– Supplies…. <$5,000– Chemicals

WhatisImportantEquipment?

“Typical”LifeScienceLaboratory

OK…Freezers&EnergyStarItallstarted,waybackwhen…§ informal2006conferencecalls§ DOE/EPA/Labs21(I2SL.org)• PaulMathewTHANKS!

§ 6-8Manufacturers• AllEquipment“Efficiency”

§ 1labmanagerParticipationmatters!

EPArequestspreliminarydata• 2009• AfterEnergyStarxGAO“sting”• Self-Testingwilllikelyneedrepeating– $2-5,000peritem

• MethodnotDefined

EPArequestspreliminarydata

EPAre-startsmethoddevelopment• 2012• Refrigerators• Freezers• NotUltra-LowTemperatureFreezers• Industry• Users- HigherEducation• ASHRAE72supplement

EnergyStarvsIndustryGoals• GoodPerformance• Best25%Efficiency• Reliable• Warm-UpTime

VSHypedperformance

e.g.-80vs-70CMinuteuniformitywhenempty

PullDownTime

Continuedmethoddevelopment• 2013—HypedPerformance• Empty-- consistent,unrealistic• Units:TotalEnergy• 15sensors,bare– toosensitive• Ultra-LowTemperatureFreezersYES!

Continuedmethoddevelopment• 2014—RealisticPerformance• Empty– convectionassumedOK• DoorOpenings• Units:Energy/Volume=kWh/CF• 9sensors,shielded– Likeasample

DATA!WeNeedSomeStinkin’Data!

• ThirdParty• DueMarch,2015• Who’sgonna provideit???

MyGreenLabtotheRescue!1. Empty2. andLoadedwithRacks3. andDoorOpenings…

OhMy!!

PartnerwithFSTCThankYou!Allison!