Harnett County Schools Funded a district-wide modernization project with $14.6 million in savings through partnership with Schneider Electric.
Comprehensive upgrades to dramatically improve energy efficiency and sustainability will reduce expenses by 26 percent.
This project will implement a wide range of infrastructure improvements to help the district transform the learning environment for students, faculty, and staff. In total, the project will generate $20.7 million in energy and operational savings.
Savings will come from a wide variety of measures that improve energy efficiency and enhance the learning environment, including:
- Brightening classrooms with interior LED lighting and controls
- Improving campus safety at night with exterior LED lighting
- Saving water with new water-reduction technologies at multiple facilities
- Modernizing HVAC and improving building comfort at multiple facilities
- Saving energy and improving comfort with extensive sealing of windows, doors, gaps and cracks across all buildings
- Streamlining operations by updating and expanding the district-wide building automation system, which will ease the burden on maintenance staff
In addition to the facilities improvements, the project will make a significant environmental impact by removing nearly 21,003 tons of CO 2 from the atmosphere, which is equivalent to removing 1,491 cars from the road or powering 895 homes for one year.
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