Award categories for the Freezer Challenge

While every participating lab is a winner for helping save an incredible amount of energy, we are proud to honor the below labs for their significant contribution to the Freezer Challenge.

kwh/day savings is not the only determinant of whether a lab or organization receives a top award or honorable mention. Many actions in the Freezer Challenge do not equate to energy savings – normalized points is the first factor looked at, then kwh/day saved.

Note: Winning Streak Awards are given to previous year’s winners that exceeded their energy savings from last year. 

Organizational winners 

• The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• The La Jolla, California campus of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign saved an estimated 260,000 kWh/year, the La Jolla campus of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson saved an estimated 65,000 kWh/year, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saved an estimated 140,000 kWh/year.

Honorable mention goes to Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, Boulder for their outstanding efforts.

Individual laboratory winners 

• The Brain Inflammation Group, Luckman Lab, and the SPB Group Labs managed by Elena Redondo at the University of Manchester
• The Janssen Immunology Biology Lab at La Jolla, California, led by Steven Nguyen, Scientist, Immunology Therapeutic Area, Janssen Research & Development LLC
• The  Inorganic and Radiation Analytical Toxicology Branch from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Eye and Vision Biorepository at Eversight

Honorable mention in the individual lab category goes to the Hoekstra Lab from Harvard, the Sabatini Lab from MIT, and the Hoover/Mathiason Lab from Colorado State University.  These labs went above and beyond in their efforts to improve cold storage management and to reduce the environmental impact of their labs.

Congratulations once again to all the winner’s of this year’s competition, and to the thousands of labs and scientists that participated this year.