Grants Community College Sustainability

• Installed four bottle fillings stations that have kept approximately 8000 plastic bottles from the landfill
• Three of the buildings were remodeled in 2011 to be more sustainable and save energy by adding 6” of insulation, high R-value (thermal) windows, and upgrading lighting
• Recycle plastic and paper fiber; aluminum, copper, brass, and iron go into "laydown" yard to be recycled or re-used
• Four new LED exterior lights on maintenance garage;  parking lot lights are on timers
• Motion and infrared  lighting sensors in classrooms; dimmable T8's in Title 5 STEM lab
• Vehicle fleet reduced from eleven to six, with two being hybrids
• New high-efficiency aluminum boilers in Martinez Hall
• Recycled old roofing from McClure Hall and then reused the material in walls for insulation
• Replacing old T12 fluorescent lamps with T8's and CFL's throughout campus