Sustainability

Renewable and Responsible Energy


The Massachusetts Maritime Academy campus offers a series of unique features. We are an eco-conscious site with an active electricity generating wind-turbine and solar panels on top of the dormitories. At present, 30% of the Academy’s power needs are supplied by these two power features.

 

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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

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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