UCI Smart Labs Initiative
An Environmental Health & Safety and Facilities Management Energy Partnership
Papers & Presentations
- UCI exceeds energy reduction goal of federal Better Buildings Challenge
- Smart Laboratories Cut Energy Consumption by Half
- Smart Labs: A Success Story (Video)
- Smart Lab Buildings Webinar
- California Inter-University Energy & Safety Coalition Webinar
- Deep Energy Efficiency Strategies For University Buildings
- Green Labs Symposium - 2014 (Videos)
- Keeping a Smart Lab Smart
- Low Flow High Efficiency Hoods Webinar
- Laboratory Ventilation Risk Assessment (LVRA) User Guide
- Lab Centralized Demand Controlled Ventilation
- Laboratory Lighting Controls Upgrade
- Reducing Minimum Exhaust Flow for Laboratory Fume Hoods
- Safely Cut Your Laboratory Energy Use in Half Workshop
- Solar Power Purchase Agreements
- VEFF Tests In Med Sci D
Guidance Documents
- Aircuity
- Fume Hoods
- UCI Smart Labs Building Fact Sheets
Additional Articles and Resources
- Intelligent Design - UCI’s new and retrofitted Smart Labs can cut energy use by half
- UC Irvine Exhaust Stack Discharge Velocity Reduction
Awards
- 2016 I2SL Go Beyond Award - Recognizing excellence in sustainability in laboratory and other high-technology facilities
- 2016 CSHEMA Annual Conference Innovation Award of Excellence - Smart Labs and Ventilation
- 2016 UCOP Risk Summit President’s Award for Campus Excellence in Environmental Health & Safety Spotlight on Innovation for Energy Saving Smart Labs
- 2013 Effective Laboratory Conference: Safe, Successful and Sustainable; University of Liverpool - S-Lab Award - International Operations Award - Recognizing UCI Smart Labs
- 2013 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA)
- 2013 Green Leadership Award
- Second Nature's Climate Leadership Award
- California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Best Practice Award 2011
- California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Best Practice Award 2010