{"id":276,"date":"2011-12-21T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2011\/12\/21\/furman-pursues-high-flying-energy-conservation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:26:07","slug":"furman-pursues-high-flying-energy-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-pursues-high-flying-energy-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman pursues high flying energy conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1368\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/helicopter1-townes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1368 lazyload\" title=\"helicopter1-townes\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/helicopter1-townes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"162\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/162;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The helicopter loaded equipment into the roof of the Townes Center.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University installed new energy-saving equipment into the roof of the Charles H. Townes Science Center on Tuesday morning, and it was a big enough job that a helicopter had do most of the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 helicopter lifts took place over a two-hour period, with the helicopter flying from an area near Timmons Arena to the roof of the Townes Center.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce energy consumption, Furman is installing four additional energy wheels to act as a heat exchanger between the fresh air entering the building and the exhaust air leaving it.\u00a0 The new equipment is expected to save Furman approximately $60,000 per year in heating and cooling costs, and substantially reduce its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Adding energy-saving equipment to the Townes Center is part of Furman\u2019s ongoing commitment to sustainability.\u00a0 In addition to being a charter signatory to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, the university has been named a Campus Sustainability Leader by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and a Climate Action Leader by Clean Air-Cool Planet.<\/p>\n<p>During the past decade, Furman has completed a sustainability master plan, founded the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability, built the first LEED-certified building in South Carolina and created an undergraduate major in Sustainability Science.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/story\/16362375\/furman-uses-helicopter-to-install-energy-saving-equipment\">View FOX Carolina video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Furman enlisted the aid of a helicopter to install new energy-saving equipment into the Charles H. Townes Science Center, FOX Carolina was on hand to videotape the proceedings. \u00a0The helicopter made 16 separate trips to the the building over a two-hour period, flying from an area near Timmons Arena to the roof of the Townes Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}