- Energy Efficiency
- if you don’t need it,
don’t
use it
- Heating and
Cooling Recovery – if it’s
already produced, maximize its use
- Co-generation
and Renewable Energy - if it’s
realistic, why waste fossil fuels at an outside
power plant in our efforts to go carbon free
- Team
with Utilities – invest and partner
where it makes sense
Built in the 1970s, Lakeland’s
buildings were added and built separately as the
college grew to
fulfill community needs. Building codes were
different back then, and the “green” movement
was unfamiliar to most people. As a result, there
was
no easy way to manage the energy used among Lakeland’s
buildings on the Kirtland campus.
From a "leading
edge" standpoint, in
2006 Lakeland compared its energy performance
against
comparable institutions in Europe with similar
climates to evaluate and understand those best
practice energy
performance benchmarks. Using that benchmark
data, the College developed a comprehensive energy
master
plan, and in 2008, the College sought the help
of global experts in energy management, SIEMENS,
to implement a number of facility improvements.
That performance contract will reduce the College's
energy
consumption by 40 percent by June 30, 2010. Moreover,
Lakeland expects to continue reducing its energy
consumption by an additional 10 percent by 2014.
Lakeland is a member of the Association for the
Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
(AASHE) and
the college also now boasts one of the few “green” roofs
in Lake County which contains short grasses and
water filter system that helps to regulate building
temperature.
Demonstrating good stewardship
to the environment is just one more way in which
Lakeland educates
its students and community about the difference
conserving
energy can make.
Mike Mayher
Vice President
Lakeland Community College |
Lakeland Community College
commits itself not only to providing affordable education
to students, but
also to doing its part for sustainability and energy
conservation.
