It is our mission to provide a synergistic educational facility for our university and region which offers diverse learning styles for both current and future students in the areas of renewable energy, recycling and waste reduction measures, plant biology, and other sustainable technologies. This center will provide opportunities for extensive study in sciences and technology.
50% off of the grid campus-wide by 2030 using renewable energy.
Installed twelve water stations in the fall 2018.
Photovoltaic panels for financial AID.
Solar thermal heating systems supplement Kinesiology Building, Biology Building and Cardinal Newman Hall.
Photovoltaic tracking panels supplement Physical Plant office power.
Campus-wide 80% Recycled and 20% landfill waste by 2020.
Reduce dumpsters on campus by 20% in 2012.
Baling Cardboard for resale.
Implemented single-stream recycling.
Reduce amount of dumpsters on campus by 40%.
Increase recycling participation.
Reduce amount of dumpsters on campus by 20%.
Working educational facility.
Photovoltaic panel installed for research.
First water-reclamation pond and irrigation pumping station installed.
Solar thermal heating for greenhouses to be completed.
Interconnected water-reclamation pond to be completed.
Biomass electrical generation plant to be installed by 2020.
Sustainable landscape installation by 2020.
Reconfiguration of Facility (Clean-up and removal of unused structures) Complete
Water Reclamation (Design and build retention ponds) Complete
Fully Operational Recycling Center (Part of our plan in dumpster reduction on campus)Complete
All Solar applications applied (Solar hot water and photovoltaic) Complete
Smart Classroom installed Complete
Fully Operational Growing Facility (Tree Farm and Landscape plants to be used in our campus landscapes) Partially Met
Structure for Biomass and Biodiesel Building Complete
Install Biomass Plant (Used to produce electricity for the entire center, allowing us to be completely off the grid) Awaiting Funding and design by Computer Science and Technology students and professors.