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Phil Cotharin,
temperature controls
mechanic/energy management specialist, is helping Wesleyan significantly
reduce energy waste and save money. A new initiative, Project $AVE, will
work with the campus community to implement energy-saving ideas.
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| Posted 03.01.06 |
Project $AVE Wants Input on Saving Money, Improving Efficiencies
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During the past two years:
The Purchasing Office negotiated purchasing contracts, competitive
bidding and individual purchasing negotiations, saving $800,000.
Wesleyan Station contracted with a new vendor for handling first-class
university mail services to save $4,000 annually.
The Freeman Athletic Center added energy-efficient fixtures, automated
light sensors and high efficiency pumps to provide a rebate of $18,300.
Waste management efficiencies consolidated four dumpsters into one trash
compactor at a central location, yielding $32,000 in annual savings.
These are just a few ways Wesleyan has worked to save money and develop
sustainable and viable efficiencies on campus. Now, a new initiative called
"Project $AVE" will add to this success by collecting additional ideas for
sustained cost savings throughout the Wesleyan community.
 Project $AVE,
http://www.wesleyan.edu/projectsave/, is operated by a team
faculty, staff and students who will carefully evaluate all suggestions
submitted. The team will uses it own expertise in evaluating suggestions.
When necessary, the team will also reach out to community members with
relevant expertise to help evaluate selected suggestions.
The status of ideas will be posted on the Project $AVE Web site as the team
goes through evaluation and implementation.
"We are most interested in suggestions that will result in permanent and
on-going savings, but will also review suggestions for one-time savings,"
says John Meerts, interim vice president for finance.
Project $ave offered the first 25 people who submitted an idea with a gift
coupon to Pi Café or the Red and Black Café. More than 50 people submitted
ideas on the site’s launch date, Feb. 22.
"We want all ideas whether big or small from everyone on campus," says Ed
Below, review team chair and director of Administrative Applications. "The
more ideas, the more we save and the better we all get at doing our jobs."
Members of the Project $AVE review team are Below, Cliff Ashton, director of
Physical Plant; Matt Ball '08; Rick Culliton, dean of Campus Programs; Gemma
Ebstein, director of Alumni and Parent Relations; Marc Eisner, professor of
government; Diane Klare, science library reference librarian; Steve Machuga,
Project Save technical advisor and director of Administrative Systems; Brian
Stewart, associate professor of physics; Gabe Tabak '06 and Jesse Watson
'06.
To post a suggestion or to suggest a way for a process to work better, users
can submit their ideas by leaving a message at the Project $AVE phone line,
860-685-2883, or by posting the suggestion on the
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| By Olivia Bartlett,
Wesleyan Connection editor |
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