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  • Sustainability Update: Ft. Washington Greenmarket Begins June 4

    June 3, 2013

    Fort Washington Greenmarket is open Tuesdays from 8am-4pm beginning June 4

  • Sustainability Update: Green Team Kick-off Meeting

    May 3, 2013

    The first meeting of the CUMC Green Team will be held on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 4 PM within the Hammer Building, Room LL 103. Please feel free to bring colleagues who are interested, as well. This will be an open meeting for us to introduce ourselves, learn about what CUMC is currently doing and brainstorm our Green Team goals for a sustainable CUMC. Faculty, staff and students (including existing EcoReps) are welcome. We’ll have a fun little welcome gift for you, too!

  • Happy Earth Day from Facilities Management

    April 22, 2013

    Happy Earth Day!

  • Sustainability Update: Columbia University and the PlaNYC Mayoral Challenge

    April 22, 2013

    Did you know Columbia University participates in the PlaNYC Mayoral Challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Learn more about our commitment, how you can help, and Birdie, the GREENYC mascot, by watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIeMLA0UfZs&feature=share&list=UUMEP7v1f2pXSyIvKsnX9uRQ

  • Sustainability Update: Sustainability Gold Rating for Columbia University

    March 27, 2013

    Columbia University, including the Columbia University Medical Center campus, achieved a Gold rating after under-going an intense sustainability evaluation under STARS.

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  • Sustainability Update: Become a Green Champion

    February 6, 2013

    CUMC is interested in growing its efforts to increase sustainability efforts across the campus. The most effective way to do this is to engage with students, faculty and staff to build a green team full of green champions who will help to roll out initiatives within their own space. CUMC Facilities will provide the tools and resources to learn and understand what it means to be a green champion. A Green Champion will join CUMC’s Green Team and help to grow CUMC’s sustainability efforts in the following ways:

  • Sustainability Update: Recycle Cooking Oil

    February 6, 2013

    CUMC’s Faculty Club, including the Bard Hall Student Meal Plan, is working to get even greener. The Faculty Club, under the direction of their manager, Michael Alberto, has begun to recycle their cooking oil with a company that will collect and repurpose it for Biodiesel.

  • Sustainability Update: Green Building Plans for Tenants

    February 6, 2013

    As CUMC continues to grow and evolve, it is important that we also continue to operate in a sustainable fashion. In this vein, CUMC Facilities has developed a green building plan that can be tailored to spaces, departments and buildings interested in pursuing it. It is structured in a way to parallel LEED efforts should the building or space decide to take the extra step to also pursue LEED for Existing Buildings.

  • Sustainability: Interconnected Chiller Plant

    February 6, 2013

    A primary project identified from the Sustainable Energy Master Plan was the interconnection of chiller plants on the “superblock” of the Medical Center. What this meant was to install piping to connect chilled water piping in buildings and chiller plants across the Black Building, P&S Building and Hammer Building.

  • Sustainability Update: Energy Saved from Black Bldg BMS

    February 6, 2013

    During 2011 Columbia University Medical Center installed a Building Management System within the William Black Building. This new computer-based control system monitors and optimizes the building’s mechanical and electric equipment, such as air conditioning, chiller operation, heating or hot water. During the installation digital sensors were placed throughout the systems to take temperatures and pressures in order to ensure services supplied to the building were efficient and comfortable for tenants.

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