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Sustainable Laundry Solution: Hanging Around at UIC Campus

Implementing drying racks in dorms at UIC to reduce energy usage, promote green living, and engage design students. Save money, cut power costs, promote eco-friendly choices, and create social awareness. Cost-effective, student-designed racks offer environmental protection and community benefits.

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Sustainable Laundry Solution: Hanging Around at UIC Campus

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  1. Hanging Around Pt 2 Kyle Jackson

  2. Overview • To implement drying racks into the dormatories on the UIC campus this would cut down on the use of dryers in the university laundry rooms and provide students with a green styled alternative to drying their clothes.

  3. Money Money Money! • 87 Dryers in UIC Housing • Estimated 8,000 Dollars a year spent on energy for student Dryers (bestenergymonitoring.com)

  4. Hanging Around • Allow Design Students to design and build racks • Implement 50-75 racks per year • Large variety and cheap manufacturing only have to pay for materials

  5. Site Location • JST as first selected dorm. • Start with 2 floors and a drying rack per cluster • Expand throughout entire dorm

  6. Possible Placement and Disbursement Methods • 1. Drying racks permanently installed in laundry rooms. • 2. Racks available for semester-long checkout • 3. Include racks as standard-issue “furniture” for suite common rooms • 4. Drying racks permanently installed in residence hall hallways or telescoping racks installed in small, private bathrooms • 5.Drying racks permanently installed in large communal bathrooms • 6. Racks available on a “borrow and return” honor-system basis from the laundry rooms • 7. Racks available on a “check-out and return” basis from residence hall.

  7. Environmental Protection • This project will cut down on the use of dryers in the UIC laundry rooms lessening the cost of electricity for the University • Educating students to alternative lifestyle choices to preserve the environment.

  8. Social Equity • This project will increase awareness of environmental issues and promote renewable energy to the UIC community. • It will also allow for students in the industrial design school to have a project of theirs implemented into use at UIC.

  9. Economic Benefit • This project will cut down power costs by eliminating some dryer use • Since students would be making these drying racks as class projects the university would save money by just purchasing materials.

  10. Costs • According to CincinnatiDowel.com ordering large 1 3/4' diameter dowels with a length of 48" would cost 11.86 per dowel • If we were to order 500 dowels per year which would give each student 5 48" dowels to work with as well as other wood • It would cost 5986 dollars per year to purchase the materials necessary in order to build the racks with shipping included would be 6000 dollars

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