energy
Growth
Georgia Tech has seen significant growth in our student body and our buildings. Since 1994, our student body has doubled in size with expectations of 20,000-22,000 students in 2014. Our gross square footage has doubled, and will continue growing to 16,079,000+ gross square feet in 2014.
Conservation
Energy use and emissions are related, so we actively promote energy conservation on campus with our students, staff and faculty. Research lab buildings consume more than four times as much energy per square foot as the average classroom or administrative buildings. Residential buildings are our second highest consumers, outside of plant facilities.
We have reduced the energy consumption in 62 of our buildings built since 1995 by 11% through energy conservation practices (both mechanical and behavior changes) since 1995.
However, demand for energy on our campus is outstripping our energy conservation measures. This is due to a combination of increased numbers of students, more research intensive buildings, more energy demands per students, and a massive growth in buildings on campus. While the Gross Square Footage on campus rose 7.9% from 2006 to 2007, the kWh increased at 3.1%.
