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Sustainability
Renewable and Responsible Energy
As a wide variety of adverse environmental factors continue to affect quality of life and our ability to provide a quality education, we will need to embrace the goals of sustainability and accountability both as individuals and as an institution.
We will encourage the efforts of student organizations that raise environmental awareness and initiate new techniques for achieving environmental sustainability.
With a focus on these issues, we can make Massachusetts Maritime Academy known for the quality of our environmental stewardship, thereby attracting students committed to living in a resource conscious manner and cultivate a willingness to involve all campus members in the process of achieving greater campus sustainability.
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Energy Efficiency
- LED lighting
- Motion sensors
- Occupancy sensors
- Daylighting
- Variable speed motors
- Energy recovery units
- Building energy meters and dashboard management program
Environmental Conservation
- LEED building construction – Platinum, Gold, Silver certified
- Campus decentralization
- Convert oil to natural gas
- Eliminate steam heating
- High efficiency boilers
- Computer management
- Energy star equipment
- Power management policy
- Resource management
- Recycling: metal, paper/cardboard, textiles, construction materials
- Ocean Protection - plastic elimination program
- Green cleaning program
- EPP (Environmentally preferred products) purchasing program
- Greening office supplies
- Hybrid and partial zero emission vehicles
Renewable and Alternative Energy Systems
- 660kW Wind turbine
- 75kW Rooftop solar photovoltaic array - dormitory
- 103kW Rooftop solar photovoltaic array – information commons
- 70kW Solar thermal rooftop array – natatorium
- 195kW Combine heat and power system – dormitory
- 120 ton Geothermal ground-source heat pump – information commons
- Solar PV and battery storage lighting pathway
Water and Landscape Conservation
- Water saving devices
- Retention ponds
- Rain garden
- Artificial athletic turf
- Sustainable building materials
- Irrigation system
- Native plantings
- Food waste diversion