Sustainability in Educational Institutions

Improving operating efficiencies in campus buildings is great first step in keeping tuition costs competitive and convincing individual donors and corporate philanthropists of your institutions’ commitment to sustainability; providing for a just, caring, and restorative society that reduces its own environmental footprint in the interest of protecting and restoring the earth’s resources for future generations.

We provide a wide array of services to public and private K-12 schools, colleges, and universities seeking to reduce waste and eliminate inefficiencies from their operations, educational and organizational practices. With our assistance, they can maximize the benefits that result from a heightened sense of environmental and social stewardship.

SMC’s sustainability consulting resources offer institutional clients a broad range of well recognized, third party certifications, including the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® for Schools, to help them create operational practices that illustrate the important role that sustainability plays, while establishing opportunities for short- and long-term payback on their investments.

Board members, school business officers, facility planners institutional advancement officers and sustainability directors can be challenged to find creative ways to trim waste from the bottom line in their facilities, processes, and educational program activities. SMC can help them rise to the challenges through identification and implementation of energy audits, emissions inventories, water conservation measures and other operational efficiency initiatives that can improve the bottom line.

SMC can help each institutional client rise to the challenges by identifying a number of “green” initiatives that offer low-cost, no-cost, and short-term payback in their facilities and processes, thereby providing opportunities prevent rising costs that can affect their bottom line. Additionally, an institutional vision that includes a solid commitment to sustainability and tangible, measurable results provide added marketing benefits when seeking enrollment, in-kind partnerships and endowments.

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