Utilities & Sustainability
- Electrical Power System
- Energy and Water Dashboards
- Room Temperature Settings
- 2021 Sustainability Awards
- UC San Diego's Earth Month 2021
A computerized Energy Management System connects all major campus buildings and centrally monitors and controls heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems based on occupancy. The centralized system controls most office and lab thermostats to maintain efficient, accurate temperature settings and save energy.
Facilities Management aims to maintain these temperatures in campus buildings.
In some areas, you can manually adjust thermostat controls by 2 degrees if your workspace feels too warm or too cool. Move the thermostat slider bar to the top to increase heating and cooling set points by 1 degree or move the thermostat slider bar to the bottom to decrease set points by 1 degree.
To override the "Unoccupied" setting, press the thermostat button that switches the system into the “Occupied” mode for two hours. On some thermostats, this button is labeled “Occupied/Unoccupied” and on others, it’s a small, unlabeled button on the side.