Accomplishments
General |
Dental School Dean’s Office |
Environmental Health and Safety
Facilities Management |
Information Management and Services |
Library |
Medical School
Police Department |
Printing Services |
Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen
A variety of projects are already underway at UT Health Science Center. These projects include:
General
- The new South Texas Research Facility, currently in the early construction stages,
has been redesigned according to the US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED) New Construction standards as a base for best-practices.
- The new Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC), currently nearing completion, has
been reviewed by architects to yield additional energy saving changes that can be
implemented to the design at the current phase of work.
- The SGA started the first campus-wide recycling program in conjunction with Wise-Guys
recycling a few years ago. Recently, the Green Initiative Committee, with support
from the office of the President, added 15 new multi-use recycling bins around campus
(click here for a map of recycling bin locations).
Recycling for paper, cans, and bottles are available in these bins across campus.
For data on the amount of recycling and waste on campus, please
click here.
Dental School Dean’s Office
[website]
- Will be consulting with IMS to enable sleep mode on all computers and monitors in the office.
- Will include energy efficiency as an important factor when purchasing equipment for the office and labs.
- Will use recycled paper for office use.
- Will double-side all copies and print jobs whenever possible.
Environmental Health and Safety
[website]
- 2008 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Leadership Circle Award
- 2007 Hospitals for a Healthy Environment Leadership Award
- UT Health Science Center at San Antonio awarded State of Texas Environmental Excellence
Award
- UT Health Science Center at San Antonio awarded San Antonio Water System (SAWS)
Environmental Excellence Award
- UT Health Science Center at San Antonio recognized as a TCEQ Clean Texas, Cleaner
World Partner
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio awarded the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
(H2E) Partner for Change Award
- Environmental Health and Safety, in conjunction with the Dental School, installed one of the first mercury capture systems in any dental clinic in the country. This system enables mercury to be removed from waste generated in dental clinics before it goes into the public waste system.
- EHS has instituted a system by which labs can exchange excess chemical supplies rather than dispose of them. Please visit the ‘Chemical Exchange Program.’
Facilities Management
[website]
Information Management and Services
[website]
- Currently configuring all public-space University computers to go to sleep/hibernate
mode if not in use.
- Currently updating network switches, servers, and classroom data projectors with
desktops achieving a 25% decrease in energy use, servers achieving 80% energy reduction,
network switches that are 20% more energy-efficient.
- Currently reconfiguring the data center with hot and cold isles, high density rack
cabinets, and other energy efficiency steps.
Library
[website]
- Library staff have provided paper-recycling in the library for several years.
- The library is in the progress of changing the default printing status to ‘double-sided’.
- The library has put together a ‘Green Team’ to identify and implement green practices in the Health Science Center Library.
Medical School
[website]
- Effective in the fall of 2009, all syllabi in the medical school will be printed
double-sided, saving over 1 million pieces of paper every two years.
Printing Services
- Effective as of March, 2009, printing prices have been changed to provide an incentive
to print double-sided. Printing projects double-sided will cost departments significantly
less than single-sided printing.
Police Department
[website]
- The campus police department will work on a plan to phase-out a significant number
of its police-cruiser use. Officers will increase foot patrols and bike patrols,
which has the added benefit of improving campus security.
Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen
[website]
- The Regional Academic Health Center has secured two large recycling bins (one for paper and one for cardboard) from the city of Harlingen, and is moving forward with plans to increase recycling across campus.
- The library at the Regional Academic Health Center has been recycling newspaper, paper, and aluminum since it opened in 2002.
Is a major Green accomplishment missing from this list? If so, please use our
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Recycling on campus is available at the following locations:
Paper, Plastic, and Metal Sorted Bins (Gray)
- AAB Building 1st floor near classrooms
- CTRC Building Lobby
- Dental Building 1st Floor near Entrance to Texas Star Café
- Dental Building 4th Floor near Dental Dean’s Office
- Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library Lobby
- GCCRI Lobby
- Health Professions Building Lobby
- Lecture Hall Building Outside MSI lecture hall
- Lecture Hall Building Outside MSII lecture hall
- Medical School Outside 310L
- Medical School Outside 410L
- McDermott Building Main entrance
- Nursing Building Lobby
- Parman Auditorium Foyer
Plastic and Metal Combined Bins (Green or Blue)
- AAB Building Academic Affairs kitchen area
- Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library 3rd floor near copiers (2)
- Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library 4th floor near elevator
- Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library 5th floor near elevator
- Garage A
- Garage B
- Health Professions Building Student lounge (1.108)
- Lecture Hall Building 2nd floor, near student lounge
- Lecture Hall Building 3rd floor bridge to Medical School
- Medical School Outside 210L
- Medical School Medical Dean’s Office
- Medical School 3rd floor near walkway to UH
- Medical School Graduate Dean’s Office
- Nursing Building 1st floor, outside Auditorium
- Nursing Building Outside 1.463