Sustainability at Rensselaer

In the spring of 2007, Ecologic and the Residence Hall Association combined their powers to  encourage student energy conservation.   Campus Planning and Facilities Design set up a metering system for all the buildings, to enable members of RHA and Ecologic to monitor the energy usage for each of the residence halls on freshman hill.   This metering system enabled the Eco-Hall Challenge, which is an eight-week competition designed to educate students on life-long habits that reduce energy consumption.  Each of the six residence halls:  Cary, Barton, Bray, Hall, Crockett, and Nason compete with the goal of using the least amount of energy.  The dorm that demonstrated the greatest average reduction in energy use over the course of 8 weeks won an ice cream party and a plaque commemorating their achievements.