I worked as the sustainability projects coordinator for a year for the AMS of UBC. This involved sponsoring multiple capstone projects, serving on multiple UBC committees(zero waste, student sustainability engagement, student sustainability council), and working to address the sustainability needs of the new AMS Student Nest a massive 255,000 sq. ft. building designed to serve the 50,000 student population of UBC.
We sponsored two specific engineering capstone projects. The first was to improve the efficacy of an older project to demonstrate energy consumption. The project was an interactive display, which was powered by a bicycle station. The harder one peddled the more forms of transportations became available to them, as their character made its journey to the university, show casing the incredible amount of energy needed to move people around the city. The other project was in a similar vain, it created a dashboard, which drew from multiple sensors around the building to show how the building was being used. The final product showed the building's electricity usage, natural gas usage, water usage, waste generation, and the district energy usage.
Additionally, I worked to support some of the other projects, like: the waste sorting game to improve solid waste sorting accuracy, the catering recovery project to reduce the amount of food waste generated by the buildings catering business by recommending process changes, and starting of the roots on the roof project a rooftop garden at the top of building.