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Learn about CCN 2012, the second-annual nationwide building energy and water reduction competition.
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Real-Time Energy Competitions
One way of providing socially-contextualized resource use information is to engage Building Dashboard® users in real-time energy and water use reduction competitions. Studies have demonstrated that competitions can facilitate reductions as high as 56%. Lucid's own findings show that community-wide comparisons and friendly competitions are indispensable tools for conservation, community building, and developing long-term strategies for managing consumption.
When you look at the Competition App in Building Dashboard, you'll see how your building compares with competing buildings on a real-time basis. Individual floors, buildings, user-defined groups, and even entire organizations can compete to reduce consumption at local, regional, and national levels. As changes in resource use are recorded, reductions are instantly displayed on your Building Dashboard and across the Network.
Campus Conservation Nationals
Campus Conservation Nationals is a nationwide challenge that pits college campuses against each other to see who can reduce electricity and water use the most. CCN's goals are to: engage, educate, motivate and empower students to conserve resources in their residences; foster a culture of conservation within campus communities; and enable students to teach themselves conservation behaviors that they can employ in the home and workplace in the future.
On residential college and university campuses, activities that take place in buildings typically account for the vast majority of energy use, water use and total greenhouse gas emissions. While most schools recognize the value of upgrading infrastructure as a mechanism for increasing resource use efficiency, changing the behavior of building occupants is also recognized as a critical component of conservation.
Sign up for the 2012 competition at CompeteToReduce.org.
| Organization | Duration | Savings | Top Reductions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin & Marshall College | 16 days | 8,089 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 17.3% (7 buildings participating) |
| St. Lawrence University | 18 days | 3,357 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 20.2% (22 buildings participating) |
| University of Victoria | 19 days | 40,219 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 56.4% (9 buildings participating) |
| Google NYC office | 28 days | 3,146 kWh | Top reducing floor: 30.4% (13 floors participating) |
| Agnes Scott College | 7 days | 8,899 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 34.8% (5 buildings participating) |
| Phillips Academy at Andover v. Deerfield Academy | 27 days | 15,160 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 45.4% (42 buildings participating) |
| Bowdoin College | 30 days | 16,893 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 29.1% (21 buildings participating) |
| Elon University | 49 days | 231,454 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 36.9% (41 buildings participating) |
| Bowdoin College | 11 days | 4,376 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 17.2% (11 buildings participating) |
| St John's University | 14 days | 22,320 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 15.8% (6 buildings participating) |
| Hamilton College | 15 days | 44,345 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 40.9% (11 buildings participating) |
| Oberlin College | 14 days | 10,675 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 42.5% (17 buildings participating) |
| Boston College | 28 days | 15,212 kWh | Top reducing residence hall: 9.1% |
Campus Conservation Nationals 2010 Program and Partners page »
Case Study: Elon University 2010 Powerless Competition »
Elon hosts an annual electricity reduction competition, "POWERless," making them a national leader in developing and running conservation and behavior change programs. The results of recent competitions have been impressive. In seven weeks Elon saved 231,454 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Dormitory Residents Reduce Electricity Consumption When Exposed to Real-Time Visual Feedback and Incentives, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
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