Utilities

Caltech is committed to providing safe, renewable, and sustainable utilities to our campus.

 

Power

 

Caltech has an active program to encourage energy conservation including: installing motion sensors in buildings during construction and retro-fits, replacing existing air handling equipment with high efficiency chillers and motors, utilizing high efficiency lighting, re-roofing existing buildings with reflective material to prevent excess heat absorption, LED signage standard throughout campus, increasing diameter of distribution piping to reduce friction, installing VFDs on all pumps compressors and fans, utilizing cycle of concentration methods in cooling towers, and participating in the City of Pasadena’s energy-efficient appliance replacement program. Caltech is also conducting a retro-commissioning project to ensure all existing buildings comply with the EPA’s EnergyStar Building Program with the goal that 20% of the buildings on campus be completed each year.