Analyzing energy usage for Facilities Services at UC Berkeley.
Objective
Through the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a few of my friends and I began a partnership with our campus's Facilities Services in which we undertook the task of creating an accessible, centralized, visual record of the department's data.
The Facilities Services department works to maintain a campus that is conducive to teaching, learning, and research. This requires overseeing an agenda that processes thousands of requests daily for items that need attention on campus, which includes deciding how to best allocate limited resources. The order requests can range from a burnt out lightbulb in a classroom, to destructive temperatures in a multi-million dollar research lab. The magnitude of the requests they receive and variation in urgency of requests makes the Facilities Services' job a hard one. This is where we came in.
Conclusions
Given a snapshot of data the department had generated, we set out to help them better understand how and where their resources were being deployed, as well as how to improve the process of priortizing requests by urgency. We designed a website that tells the story of UC Berkeley Facilities Services data. We provided information and visualizations to help their management assist customers, and also take away specific information that inform actions and provide useful insights.
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to have worked with the Facilities Services at UC berkeley for the opportunity to create a valuable deliverable that will help this department fulfill their mission of keeping campus up and running for all.
The co-authors of this website are Andy Bao, Ben Grasty, and Bell Wu. Go Bears!
Objective
Through the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a few of my friends and I began a partnership with our campus's Facilities Services in which we undertook the task of creating an accessible, centralized, visual record of the department's data.
The Facilities Services department works to maintain a campus that is conducive to teaching, learning, and research. This requires overseeing an agenda that processes thousands of requests daily for items that need attention on campus, which includes deciding how to best allocate limited resources. The order requests can range from a burnt out lightbulb in a classroom, to destructive temperatures in a multi-million dollar research lab. The magnitude of the requests they receive and variation in urgency of requests makes the Facilities Services' job a hard one. This is where we came in.
Conclusions
Given a snapshot of data the department had generated, we set out to help them better understand how and where their resources were being deployed, as well as how to improve the process of priortizing requests by urgency. We designed a website that tells the story of UC Berkeley Facilities Services data. We provided information and visualizations to help their management assist customers, and also take away specific information that inform actions and provide useful insights.
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to have worked with the Facilities Services at UC berkeley for the opportunity to create a valuable deliverable that will help this department fulfill their mission of keeping campus up and running for all.
The co-authors of this website are Andy Bao, Ben Grasty, and Bell Wu. Go Bears!