¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder earns Honorable Mention in International Laboratory Freezer Challenge
This year, ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder was awarded Honorable Mention in the first-everÌý,Ìýcoordinated through a partnership between theÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý. ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder alsoÌýearned Honable Mention in the 2017 competition held throughout North America.
Twenty-two labs from ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder participated in the challenge this year. Congratulations to all the participating labs at ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® and around the world!
Labs save energy through theÌýFreezer Challenge by taking sustainable actions with their cold storage to earn points, such as chilling up ultra-low temperature freezers to -70 degress Celsius, defrosting freezers, trying high density storage or room temperature sample storageÌýand trading out energy inefficient units with efficient ones. Laboratory cold storage consumes a large amount of energy and is therefore a great focus of a challenge promoting efficiency.
¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Green Labs will be hosting a ceremony to announce and award campus-wide Freezer Challenge winners early this fall - stay tuned for more details.