Lansing Community College Leads in Green Development

Lansing Community College’s (LCC) West Campus is well on its way to becoming one of the first community colleges in the country to earn a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) designation.

According to excerpts from the article:

Lansing Community College's West Campus has a geothermal heating and air-conditioning system that saves the college more than $100,000 a year in energy costs.

Motion sensors shut off the lights when a room stays empty too long. Sensors on the outdoor sprinklers keep them from operating in the rain.

The building has low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paints on the walls, which emit fewer noxious fumes, and low-volume water fixtures in the bathrooms.

Read the entire artice here.

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