Algonquin College of Applied Arts in Technology, the largest college in Eastern Ontario, is on an ambitious journey to becoming a sustainable institution of the future. The college was looking for a company it could team up with—an organization willing to go far beyond the normal boundaries of a traditional energy services contract. Energy savings performance contract and partnership to help educate, operate, collaborate, and innovate for a clean energy future – includes infrastructure upgrades for energy efficiency, living lab, co-developed research center, sustainability projects, and undergrad and graduate curriculum.

• Smart Infrastructure
• Energy Savings Performance Contract
• Energy Management
• HVAC, Lighting
• Partnership Programs

The University of Birmingham, in partnership with Siemens, is combining digital sensor and analytics technologies, artificial intelligence, decentralized energy generation and storage, renewable energy and concepts that help change users’ behavior to transform the university’s campuses into the world’s smartest global campus, creating a ‘Living Lab’ where research, teaching and learning all benefit from access to new data and connectivity.

• Smart Infrastructure
• High Performance Building Standards
• HVAC, Lighting
• Partnership Programs

To begin mitigating climate change and become a climate leader in the S.C. “Lowcountry” which is facing immediate impacts from climate change, the College of Charleston is taking aggressive action. This includes steps in planning and policy including sustainability and climate action, along with a partnership with Siemens to implement campus-wide measures to reduce energy, water and emissions, as well as improve resiliency to climate risks and mobilizing our students around sustainability and climate action. Infrastructure modernization, guaranteed energy-savings performance contract, waste management study to help implement campus-wide measures to reduce energy, water and emissions, as well as improve resiliency to climate risks and mobilizing students around sustainability and climate action.

• Smart Infrastructure
• Energy Savings Performance Contract
• Building Envelope
• HVAC, Lighting
• Partnership Programs, including waste characterization study

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has facilitated the study of the complex environmental issues facing the planet, with a focus on sustainable development. Since its founding in 1949, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory—a research unit of Columbia University located 15 miles north of the campus on a forested 157 acres overlooking the Hudson River—has facilitated the study of the complex environmental issues facing the planet, with a focus on sustainable development. Now, appropriately, its use of solar power is crucial to a university-wide goal of reducing carbon emissions by 35 percent in the next three years.

• Solar
• Smart Infrastructure
• Partnership Programs

Located on the eastern edge of the greater Toronto region, Durham College is extending its long history of environmental responsibility by building a new geothermal system. The installation uses clean, sustainable geothermal energy to heat and cool the 265,000-square-foot Gordon Willey Building, Durham’s largest facility and a hub of student activity on campus. Siemens led the team that constructed the geothermal ground source heat pump system across a 6,086-square-meter field. Using this new system, the college is projected to reduce the Willey Building’s GHG emissions by 64 percent. The installation also acts as a living laboratory designed to engage students in understanding the geothermal field and other sustainability related topics and technologies.

• Smart Infrastructure
• HVAC
• Ground Source Heating and Cooling
• Partnership Programs

The geothermal field and Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) project is part of the ongoing transformation of Durham College’s (DC) energy infrastructure to support and implement sustainably focused initiatives on campus.

Madonna University, near Detroit, Michigan, partnered with Siemens to implement sustainability programs that will maximize student learning in a comfortable, safe, and quiet atmosphere. The University had aging infrastructure that resulted in the maintenance staff focusing on reactive maintenance and left the administration struggling with which needs to address first. Siemens worked with Madonna to first understand the infrastructure needs of the campus and then to help the administration identify those priorities that would have the most profound impact on the student experience.

• Energy Savings Performance Contract
• Infrastructure modernization (HVAC, electrical, building controls, and building automation systems, as well as upgrades both the lighting and mechanical systems)
• Support the launch of a sustainability minor and certificate program

Morgan State University has embarked on their journey to a smart campus and is working closely with Siemens and the Maryland Clean Energy Center to make their vision a reality and transform their campus through visionary planning, hard work, partnership, and innovation. This collaborative effort is critical to achieving MSU’s strategic mission, including elevating MSU to Carnegie R1 status. Improvements include implementing a series of modernizations to the university’s HVAC, security, and fire and life safety systems with a focus on energy efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability to support the university’s campus transformation.

• Smart Infrastructure
• Energy Savings Performance Contract
• Energy Management
• Building Envelope
• HVAC, Lighting, Fire, Security
• Partnership Programs

Siemens developed a “Living Lab” microgrid campus to conduct groundbreaking research in the realm of microgrids, and how various energy-related generation, storage and building management products behave and work together in a dynamic real-life microgrid environment.

Princeton’s innovative microgrid integrates advanced technologies such as grid software, battery storage, PV solar, EV charging, building automation, and electrical switchgear, resulting in carbon emission and operating cost reductions while increasing resiliency and discovering new revenue sources.

• Solar
• Microgrid
• Total Energy Management

Watch this webinar to learn about Distributed Energy Systems (DES). There are a diverse range of technologies to choose from, and the process of taking new ideas from concept to construction can be unclear. DES is an ideal element in a University’s total plan for sustainability and carbon reduction, while offering resilience and control over power consumption.  Second Nature, Siemens Building Technologies, and Arizona State University have come together to discuss an applied methodology on how to transform campus energy management through onsite generation: meeting sustainability goals, while controlling energy use and cost. We discuss how to align a distributed energy project to the central mission of a University, taking advantage of the ability to bring together research, curriculum, finance and facilities management to meet the needs of multiple stakeholder groups. 

The College of Charleston has taken some important and vital steps over the
past two years to begin mitigating climate change and become a climate leader in the S.C.
“Lowcountry” – which is facing immediate impacts from climate change. These steps include: 1)
planning and policy including sustainability and climate action; 2) a partnership with Siemens to
implement campus-wide measures to reduce energy, water and emissions, as well as improve
resiliency to climate risks; and 3) mobilizing their students around sustainability and climate
action. This session tells the story of an institution using its climate-threatened location as a
catalyst for real climate action.