By: Hope Peters, Morgan Smith, Chelsea Weems, Natasha Spangler

SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS PROJECT

Making OTC More Sustainable For The Environment

• OTC is a good campus for students to go to and it offers many good classes and teachers

• With that said, OTC is missing one big factor that can make it a greater campus

• If OTC would become more environmentally friendly and use these next suggestions, the campus could be better for students and the earth

What You Will Learn

• How to make OTC better for transportation by:

• Bike Racks

• Green Energy Speed Bumps

• How to make OTC save energy with:

• Wind Power- wind turbine

• How to conserve water for OTC by:

• Annually checking leaks

• Buying and using rain barrels

• Stop automatic flush systems

OTC Transportation

• The first topic that will be discussed is transportation

• The next few slides will talk about OTC’s transportation and how it could be better!

Bike Racks

• Many students have bikes and want to ride them to school

• But there aren’t enough bike racks around the campus

• Students don’t ride them because they don’t have enough places to safely leave their bikes

• More bike racks would encourage students to be physically fit and ride their bike

Cost Of Bike Racks

• Depending on the size and where you buy them the prices will look like this:

• A rack with 2 places to hold bikes would cost $170.00

• A rack with 4 places to hold bikes would cost $290.00

• A rack with 9 places to hold bikes would cost $480.00

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Bike Racks

• Would:

• Save parking spaces

• Save gas money for students

• Encourage students to be healthy and fit

• Keep less toxins from vehicles in the air

• Keep the traffic in the parking lot low

• Keep bikes from being stolen

Green Energy Speed Bumps

• It’s a speed bump that collects kinetic energy from cars driving over it, and it can be turned into electricity

• The owner of the speed bumps may use the electricity however they choose

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Cost of Green Energy Speed Bumps

• They would eventually pay off themselves

• It would take about 2 to 3 years

• They cost $1,500-$2,000

Green Energy Speed Bumps

• Will:

• Save Money- depending on what you use the electricity for will determine how much money you will save

• Save Electricity that isn’t being used

• Keep students from speeding

• Save energy

• Make 1 megawatt of electricity per day

Saving Energy

• These next few slides will show how OTC can save energy for the campus

Changing to Wind Power

• Using wind power is a reliable and effective way to get the OTC campus to help the environment, cut costs, and bring the community together

• This will assist OTC and its sustainability in the near future

• Transferring the school from electricity to a wind power energy will cut the unhealthy emissions put into the air significantly

Saving Energy: Wind Turbine

• A wind turbine captures the natural wind and coverts it into mechanical energy, then electricity

• When wind blows past the turbine the blades capture the energy and rotate

• the wind speed must be at 2.5 meters per second

• The turbine reaches its max at 31 mph so to avoid damage when the wind is over 36 mph the safety controller slows the propellers

• Wind energy is clean and renewable

Saving Energy: Wind Turbine

• The wind turbine helps avoid environmental impacts due to the zero gas emissions and pollutants

• A wind turbine also consumes no water

• The turbine will provide a 9-10 year payback as well as saving the college $2,347,884

The turbine at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa

• Luther College is a campus that purchased a wind turbine

• The turbine reduced its schools footprint by 14-15% and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 3000 metric tons a year

• The turbine can cost a total of 3.3 million dollars but only cost the school 1,150,000 dollars because of grants given to the school for the project

• When the Luther turbine was built, the schools various programs helped to put the turbine together and eventually put it up

• It could also bring our college community together too

Saving Energy: Making It A Group Effort

• The technology department as well as a welding program and many other people could participate in the building of the turbine as well as helping to erect it

• The turbine would also serve as a great teaching tool for the community

• The turbine could be a community service job in the city or even extra credit for the school

Saving Energy: The Wind Turbine

• Luther is roughly four times the size of the OTC campus and they run off a 80ft. singular wind turbine

• Therefore, one this size would be more than satisfactory for OTC. A 50 acre plot in Republic, 20 minutes from Springfield, would be an ideal place for it

• It will roughly cost 1.2-1.5 million dollars, that’s including the land, and setting it up

• Although it’s a lot of money, in the end it will save so much and offers many great things for OTC

Conserving Water

• These next few slides will be about conserving water for OTC

Conserving Water: Checking Leaks

• OTC can help the environment and campus with conserving water by checking leaks

• This can save tons of water per year

• Toilets, sinks, water fountains, and pipes should be checked regularly (Minimum- 1 time per month)

• All fountains outside should also be checked for leaks

Conserving Water: Rain Barrels

• Another idea for conserving water is rain barrels

• Collecting rain water for use is an ancient and traditional practice

• Rainwater was collected in simple clay containers reaching as far back as 2,000 years ago through out the world

• If we use this old practice today, we can store water for anything that we need.

• As drought and aquifer mining begin to call attention to an increasing water crisis, OTC can help change this factor

• By doing this, we can save money, water, and conserve water better

Conserving Water: Rain Barrels

• With a Constant flow 1 inch per day, OTC would be able to hold 600 galloons of water per 1,000 square feet

• That’s about 6,180 galloons a year

• They Cost $135 each X 20= roughly $2,700

• If we had that many we could use our own water from the barrels to work the fountains outside, and other objects

Conserving Water: Automatic Flush Systems

• The automatic Flush systems that OTC installed are nice, but they waste a lot of water

• They go off many times when their not supposed to and even when no one has touched them or gone near them

• To save water, OTC should take out these systems or cover up the sensor and have people manually flush the toilets

Conserving Water: Automatic Flush Systems

• Money could be saved with all the water being saved from the toilets

• Money could be saved by putting stickers or tape paper against the sensors

• It would cost time, and energy of the janitors and other helpers

• In the end, useless flushing would stop, and OTC would be saving money, and also saving water

Conclusion

• OTC is a good campus and has great teachers and classes

• It could be even greater if the campus became more environmental friendly and use these suggestions:

• Make transportation better by adding more bike racks, and adding green energy speed bumps

• Saving energy by using a wind turbine

• Conserve water with rain barrels, checking all leaks, and taking away the automatic flush systems