Campus reduces energy use

The winners of the spring Energy Challenge received their awards Thursday afternoon during a ceremony at the Sample Gates. The competition was divided into categories in which the challenge’s utilities team tracked the water and electricity consumption for residence halls, greek houses, on-campus apartments and academic buildings.

They competed to see which could attain the greatest improvement from baseline measurements of water and electricity consumption taken at the beginning of the challenge.

Residence halls
Water competition: Teter Quad
Electricity competition: Ashton Center
Apartment housing
Water competition: Redbud Hill Apartments
Electricity competition: University Apartments East
Greek houses
Combined water and electricity competition: Kappa Kappa Gamma
Academic buildings
Combined water and electricity competition: Lindley Hall

— Kirsten Clark