TCNJ News
For Immediate Release
February 17, 2009
TCNJ awards carbon neutrality study to Spiezle Architectural Group, Inc.
EWING, NJ … TCNJ announced that Spiezle Architectural Group, Inc., a regional architectural and sustainable design firm, will conduct its Campus Carbon Neutrality Study.
In spring 2007, TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein signed the American College & University President’s Climate Commitment, thus establishing the President’s Climate Commitment Committee on campus. This agreement calls for the development of a comprehensive plan to achieve climate neutrality for our campus. It gives tangible actions that we will initiate in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Spiezle Architectural Group, Inc., will work closely with the President’s Climate Commitment Committee to conduct energy and sustainable audits, along with the required analyses, to prepare a Campus Carbon Neutrality Study to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the College with the goal of assisting the committee to achieve its carbon neutrality and sustainability goals
A combination of approaches and strategies will be explored, including modifications to campus operations, upgrades and expansion of existing energy technologies and energy generation systems, implementation of new energy technologies, energy efficient retrofits of existing buildings’ energy systems and envelopes (LEED EB), use of sustainable bio fuel in combustion equipment, and the potential use of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to provide carbon offsets, where no other practical form of technology is available.
The comprehensive scope of this study and its implementation will establish TCNJ as a leader in green house gas reduction and carbon neutrality.
About The College of New Jersey
TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 "Most Competitive" schools in the nation by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report, and is one of Kiplinger's Personal Finance's top educational values in the country. In 2006, the College joined an elite group of institutions when it was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Fewer than 10 percent of the nation's colleges and universities share this honor.
