A new program seeks to help students and community members understand what type of sustainability efforts are taking place on campus. The website is known as Razors EDGE. This website should be a big help for the people on campus in two ways. First, it will let them know when work is being done in their building, what the work involves, why it is being done and when it will be finished. Second, it will help give people a stake in these improvements. It will help explain how to properly use the new technology in each building and how using these improvements will save both energy and money.
Mike Johnson
Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Management
University of Arkansas
Energy Systems is a group that is in charge of designing and installing facility improvements to reduce energy consumption throughout the Fayetteville campus. By entering the energy performance agreement, the University is committing to ensure energy savings over a 13-year period will cover the cost of building improvements. It is estimated that ESG will reduce the University’s total annual energy consumption on campus by 30%. Included in this percentage are efforts to renovate the buildings to incorporate energy efficient lighting, systems to improve the heating and cooling of buildings, water management, and the coolest thing of all the potential installation of a solar powered heater for the swimming pool in the Health Education and Recreation building.It is with the purpose of informing students and faculty of upcoming changes that the ESG developed the RazorsEdge website.
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