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CSULB takes steps
to conserve
By Melissa Anderson
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
The Energy Crisis
in California continues, California State University Long
Beach is taking steps to help conserve. Officials from Edison
as well as the state's Public Utilities Commission were recently
at CSULB evaluating the lighting retrofit project in Brotman
Hall.
According to Tim
Ball, Associate Director Facilities Management at CSULB, the
project was funded by the California Energy Commission through
Edison.
"We went from
inefficient lighting to new efficient lighting," Ball
said. "Brotman Hall was the greatest potential for demand
reduction. We reduced over all demand by 25 percent."
The Brotman Hall
conservation is not the only building undergoing change. The
summer initiation retrofit project will reduce the entire
campus demand by 15 percent.
This project according
to Ball has included 15 other buildings including the recent
completion of the library. The student health center, performing
arts building and the dance building are also among the completed
buildings. The summer retrofit project is scheduled for completion
the end of this week.
"Conservation
is still a key issue. The campus is under executive orders
to keep conservation down," Ball said. "We need
cooperation turning off computers and lights, and keeping
doors and windows closed."
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