Randall Hall is an old, energy inefficient building on the grounds of UVA. In an endeavor to decrease energy use we focused on electricity, and developed a plan which consists of taking several steps to decrease electricity consumption. These steps include installing LED's in exit signs, replacing existing office lights with more efficient fluorescent light bulbs along with the necessary ballasts and fixtures, removing half the hall lights, and installing motion sensors.

Our project is not a flashy, incredibly distinctive solution to a problem; it is rather a very practical, but necessary way to deal with the problem of global warming. The way to solve the issue is to raise awareness bit by bit, and one small step at a time decrease energy use. Although designing new energy efficient buildings and methods is certainly an important part of this solution, trying to cover our tracks and make old designs more energy efficient is also a huge, necessary factor. Without doing this we will not be able to decrease our CO2 levels for years and years, until these old, inefficient buildings are no longer in use. For Randall and many other buildings this does not seem to be a time in the near future, and we don't have that long to wait to alter our CO2 use habits.

Our project addresses the issue of global warming. Buildings are a huge consumer of energy, and too many buildings don't implement new technologies to cut down on energy consumption. Electricity used in such buildings for lighting is generally generated in a coal fired plant, which releases pollutants into the atmosphere including the harmful green house gas CO2, the main cause of the global warming which is so fundamentally altering our earth.