Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder earns Honorable Mention in International Laboratory Freezer Challenge
This year, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder was awarded Honorable Mention in the first-everÌý,Ìýcoordinated through a partnership between theÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder alsoÌýearned Honable Mention in the 2017 competition held throughout North America.
Twenty-two labs from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder participated in the challenge this year. Congratulations to all the participating labs at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØand 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.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØGreen Labs will be hosting a ceremony to announce and award campus-wide Freezer Challenge winners early this fall - stay tuned for more details.