New Sculptures Enhance Campus
CAMPUS ENHANCEMENTS
RCC Launches Major Energy Reduction Project
CAMPUS MOVES CLOSER TO CARBON NEUTRALITY & SUSTAINABILITY
New Sculptures Enhance Campus
Wave , by Anne Stanner
How Ecosystems will save significant energy consumption at RCC
Rockland Community College is embarking on a major campus-wide energy efficiency project that will reduce its energy bills ( saving $ 558,000 / year ), in addition to the benefits of eliminating approximately 1,000 metric tons of GHG ( greenhouse gas ) emissions annually into the environment .
Rather than continuing to make ad hoc
Rockland Community College is embarking on a major campuswide energy efficiency project that will reduce its energy bills
adjustments to old and inefficient equipment , RCC has contracted on an $ 11.1 million retrofit project with Ecosystem , an award-winning Integrated Energy Performance Contracting company that guarantees the projected energy cost savings gained by their implementation of efficiencies to campus-wide systems .
The College is in discussion with the State University of New York ( SUNY ) to fund a portion of the investment . The remaining investment will be financed through a taxexempt municipal lease , a funding mechanism well established for energy performance projects , and incentives , most notably , a $ 1.1 million incentive from Orange & Rockland Utilities Commercial & Industrial Program .
The project scope impacts nine buildings and includes improved building management along with major retrofits and upgrades of RCC ’ s heating , cooling , and ventilation systems . The work includes boiler and chiller plant upgrades , interior lighting upgrades , and a combined heat and power plant . Work is expected to begin in 2017 for completion in 2018 . Updates about the project and information about RCC ’ s other green initiatives are available online at www . sunyrockland . edu / go / green
“ Rockland Community College , with its commitment to reducing our carbon footprint , is very excited about the energy reduction project we plan to embark upon with Ecosystem . The project plays a major role in helping us fulfill our Sustainability Mission statement , in which we pledge to sharply reduce our global warming emissions ,” said Dr . Cliff L . Wood , RCC President .
RCC ’ s campus is now home to 20 sculptures from the Model to Monument ( M2M ) program at the Art Students League of New York , which trains artists to produce work for public spaces .
Noted sculptor Greg Wyatt has led M2M since 2011 , enabling emerging sculptors to display their creations at Riverside Park in Manhattan . After the sculptures are removed to make room for work by the next class , Wyatt has them permanently installed at RCC at his own expense . The first five sculptures arrived in 2012 , with additional artworks arriving each year .
Wyatt was inspired to help RCC provide an environment that is rich in artistic expression by his late father , artist Stanley Wyatt , who taught art at RCC in the 1970s .
Among the recent installations on campus , which can be viewed along College Road and behind the Fieldhouse :
• Wave , by Anne Stanner , 2013 , stainless steel , paint
• A Conversation With Nature , by Janet Fekete Bolton , 2014 , stainless steel
• Harbor for Industry , by Lindsay McCosh , 2014 , cement figures , steel tower , wind turbine with lantern
• Everyday , by Ana Sofía Martí , 2014 , steel , steel pail lids
• Thrive , by Paolo Morales , 2015 , steel tubes , steel rain caps , metal fabrication by Serett Metalworks
• Fragments of an Angel , by Kathleen Jansyn , 2015 , steel , nylon fabric , nylon rope , found objects , metal fabrication by Serett Metalworks
A section of Harbor for Industry , by Lindsay McCosh
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