2010 11 17 green team meeting notes

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G R E E N T E A M M E E T I N GN O V 1 1 , 2 0 1 0 | S C O P E D E F I N I T I O N P T 1

Update

Scope at the Institutional Level

Scope at the Site Level

Management Agreement Sites

Next-Steps

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Inst i tut ional Susta inabi l i ty at the MHS

Notes from meeting inside dialog bubbles.

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Schedule | Data Collection | Blog

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Schedule

Moving forward with data collection into data processing.

Audit Phase 1 and 2 worked concurrently.

Communications underway.

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U P D A T ESites Electricity Fuels Water Sewage Waste As Builts

1500 Miss P P P P Allied

Forest History P P Well Septic x

Fort Snelling P P Mpls P P

Hill House P P P P P

Forestville P

History Center P P P P P P

Jeffers P P Well Septic P P

Kelley Farm P P

Lindbergh P P P P P P

Mill City P P P P P

Mille Lacs P

Northwest Company P P Well SepticPine City -Hinckley P

Ramsey House P P P P P

Sibley House P P P P

Split Rock P P Well SepticJohn

Sanitary P

x_Comstock

x_Folsom

x_Fort Ridgley

x_Harkin

x_Mayo House

Missing Data

+ Small utilities from Finance

+ Most current (August 2010 and on) utilities

+ Management agreement sites data

+ As-Builts or similar

+ Data from Historic Forestville and Mille Lacsdata

+ Visits to Mille Lacs, Hill, Ramsey scheduled

+ Forestville sometime late Nov

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S C O P E

Institutional | Site

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S C O P E -I N S T I T U T I O N A L

Consistent set of measured components for each site / building throughout the institution.

Will be looked at as an accumulated value, as well as by site.

Think about the following:

+How does component compares to large scale of institution?

+Should it be part of the 9-month project or suggested as a future study?

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S C O P E –S I T E S

Some sites may have different elements that could be included as a ‘satellite’ account.

Think about the following:

+ Will the measurement be useful to reducing impact?

+Can the measurement be used in other educational ways?

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‘Energy – Stationary Combustion’ refers to energy used for heating, cooling, lighting, and any other non-mobile equipment.

One of the most popular portions of sustainability audits / assessments.

Also serves as a stand-alone option, as energy is typically the largest component.

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Note: Will include all of these components in the scope.

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‘Energy – Mobile Combustion’ refers to the energy associated with powering vehicles, or other transportation components (iebuses, trains, etc.)

May not be too useful for our purposes as we cannot chose the fleet vehicles provided by the State, and we do not have much time in our project to influence transportation changes by employees or visitors.

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Gray X’s indicate discussion results.

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Calculating the employee travel may help justify the use of video conferencing, combining trips, or different vehicle selections.

Note: Discussion centered around the amount driven from site to site.

Most felt it was important to include the CO2 from driving, even if it will be small compared to the rest of the institution’s CO2 figures.

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‘Wood-based Resources’ refers to the use of any wood resources. Typically, this includes construction components, but given the existing structures, we would look at items we keep consuming.

Exhibits mostly applies to exhibit changes at the History Center, but can inform future exhibits at any site.

Paper usage could be expanded to any paper-products purchased by the institution, as long as there are receipts.

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Data for 12 months in middle exhibit of MHC used to justify future study.

Note: Paper products will be tracked via billing at individual sites as well as through Karen. While small, could be the basis for a public / employee centered PR campaign. Might only focus on subset of paper products, depending on data available.

Note: Exhibit materials from Chocolate already behind, new exhibits planned to use less material and more recycling. Exhibit information to be used in recommendations area for further study and collection of documentation. Gather exhibit resources in final document.

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‘Process Driven’ refers to any special processes occurring at a site. Typically, this would also include industrial processes, which do not apply to our sites.

Processes related to programming and education, not production. May not indicate anything we can change.

Could be interesting educational components for the site, especially the farm.

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Satellite calculation for Kelly Farm site only.On the other hand, can these

calculations be “a double edged sword” and used to justify cutting programs?Will do initial data collection and audit to see what information can be used.

Note: Farm CO2 accounting is still a topic of debate in sustainability. There may not be many benchmarks to use to compare Kelly Farm with modern farms.However, establishing calculation will be useful for educational purposes, and for future study.

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‘Waste’ refers to any solid waste diverted to landfills, or incinerators. The net impact of recycling (energy recovered vsenergy used to recycle) is subtracted from waste totals.

Difficult to track given many sites do not know the weights, but can use typical composition figures and estimates based on size of receptacles and pick ups.

May be interesting / educational to see impact of History Center Café.

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Consider food production and food waste. See what data emerges before deciding to include in the scope of institutional study.

Note: Some more discussion needs to happen in terms of what is included in the café processes. Energy, water, and major utilities are already included since most cafes are tied to the buildings being studied. However, going further up the supply chain to food gets into a similar study as in the Farming practices at Kelly Farm. Will collect data, and make final decision in December.

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‘Water’ refers to any water usage in the building and on the site. This can also include any landscape recovery that has increased site infiltration of water.

Often overlooked category for sustainability audits, but importance of fresh water supply is becoming more popular.

Typically, site changes are more impactful than plumbing usage.

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Make calculations satellite accounts for sites with large areas of land.

Note: Sites with reclaimed prairie or forest land will have a very high net positive improvement in water infiltration, and CO2 sequestration. These will be less confusing as a separate satellite account for large land-cover sites.

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Recommendation for the Institutional Audit:

+ Energy – Stationary Combustion

+ Wood-Based Resources

+ Waste

+ Water

(Excludes Energy – Mobile Combustion, Process Driven)

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S C O P E –S I T E S

Include certain Process-Driven components for some sites that could use the information.

For example:

Kelly Farm could use the CO2 footprint of their 1820s farm and compare it to modern industrial or organic farms.

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Note: Question about building repairs and including materials. Data from last 2 years could be used, but would be an intensive and time-consuming study. May not be as useful. Consider only a few sites or construction projects.

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S C O P E D I S C U S S I O N

Institution

Energy – Stationary Combustion

Energy – Mobile Combustion > Fleet Vehicles

Wood-Based Resources > Paper Products

Waste

Water

Site Specific

Process Driven > Farming (Kelly Farm)

Wood-Based Resources > Exhibit Materials (History Center)

Water > Sites Impact (large land cover sites)

Waste > Composted / Feed > Cafes (History Center, Mill City, Split Rock, etc)

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Note: Will collect data for many of the site specific components, but will keep to December deadline to acquire information. Some components may become recommendations for future studies.

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S C O P E -M A N A G E M E N T

A G R E E M E N T S I T E S

Site Location Management Year SF

Mill City Offices

Minneapolis Northmarq

Comstock House

Moorhead Moorhead 1883 4617

Folsom House Taylors Falls 1856 4244

Fort Ridgely Fairfax Nicollet County

1853 6308

Harkin Store New Ulm 1869-1871 4298

W.W. MayoHouse

Le Sueur 1859 2275

Select any number of management agreement sites to include in the institution.

Remember these sites are not necessarily consistent with rest of MHS-operated sites, consider putting them in satellite calculation.

Select based on:

+Management company response,

+Data availability,

+Representative program,

+Popularity.

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Total SF of Institution = 969,715 SF

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S C O P E -M A N A G E M E N T

A G R E E M E N T S I T E S

Site Location Management Year SF

Mill City Offices

Minneapolis Northmarq

Comstock House

Moorhead Moorhead 1883 4617

Folsom House Taylors Falls 1856 4244

Fort Ridgely Fairfax Nicollet County

1853 6308

Harkin Store New Ulm 1869-1871 4298

W.W. MayoHouse

Le Sueur 1859 2275

Sites to include:

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Total SF of Institution = 969,715 SFNote: Mill City will be included since utilities are intertwined between offices and museum. Folsom and Fort Ridgelyrepresent two types of programs / sites that will represent many of the other partner sites.

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N E X T - S T E P S

Missing Data | Preliminary Audit Presentation

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N E X T - S T E P SSites Electricity Fuels Water Sewage Waste As Builts





Forestville P



Kelley Farm P P


Mill City P P P P P

Mille Lacs P





Sanitary P

x_Comstock

x_Folsom

x_Fort Ridgley

x_Harkin

x_Mayo House

Biggest missing piece is as-built drawings, or most recent design drawings.

+ Floor plan

+ Wall components or R-values

+ Mechanical schedule

+ Lighting schedule

+ Lighting plan

+ Exhibit lighting schedule

+ Exhibit lighting plan

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N E X T - S T E P SSites Electricity Fuels Water Sewage Waste As Builts





Forestville P



Kelley Farm P P


Mill City P P P P P

Mille Lacs P





Sanitary P

x_Comstock

x_Folsom

x_Fort Ridgley

x_Harkin

x_Mayo House

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Note: Will be targeting more as-built drawing data in the next few weeks. Will work with Tom Ellig on Folsom and Ridgely.

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