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Trane's comprehensive solutions are designed to make your campus more sustainable and energy efficient. Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for schools to attract students. Sixty-three percent of college applicants are looking for a green campus, according to the Princeton Review (2008).
Additionally, according to the "Greening America's Schools" report, sonsored in part by the non profit U.S. Green Building council, green buildings provide a better study and learning environment for students. The study, which evaluated K-12 school environments, found that improved lighting, air quality, and acoustics are estimated to improve learning abilities and test scores by as much as five percent.
However, many college administrators are finding it difficult to balance the "green" movement with day to day budget challenges, such as addressing aging infrastructure. One out of every two schools is updating its campus master plan to cope with issues such as increasing enrollment and aging facilities, according to Capital Budgeting Practices in Public Higher Education (APPA, 2006).
Click on the University of Central Missouri (UCM) logo to the left to learn how UCM, a state university with 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students, embarked on an unprecedented $36.1 million project that will radically reduce energy consumption and the university's carbon footprint, while making a significant improvement to the learning environment.
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