Welcome to the Montgomery College Resource Conservation Page.
Montgomery College was founded in 1946 and established its first campus in Takoma Park in 1950. The College added a second campus in Rockville in 1965, a third campus in Germantown in 1976, and expanded the Takoma Park Campus into Silver Spring in 2000. The College owns and maintains approximately 336.7 acres of property on three campuses with additional off campus leased space and operates a total of 47 buildings in excess of 2.5 million gross square feet (GSF). The buildings consist of classrooms, offices, laboratories, libraries, meeting rooms, gymnasiums, child care centers, natatoria and greenhouses. The Takoma Park Campus operates a 224,310 GSF, 5 story parking garage. In addition to the programs offered at each campus, the College offers regular college credit programs and non‑credit courses in off‑campus locations throughout the County. Classes are held in campus facilities seven (7) days a week. The hours of use are generally from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. on weekdays, and at various times during the day on weekends. Major building cleaning and maintenance occurs after occupied hours. Some classes are held on weekends and there are frequently intramural and varsity activities in the Physical Education buildings as well as community use (rentals) of other spaces on the weekends. The College's Network Operations Center(NOC) is located on the Rockville Campus and is operational 24 hours a day. Classes are in session during the summer at all three campuses. The College's administrative and academic offices are open year‑round. Central plants on the Rockville, Germantown, Takoma Park/Silver Spring(East & West) campus distribute heating and cooling water for environmental conditioning of the spaces.
Montgomery College began its resource conservation program prior to the oil embargo in 1973, is a charter member of the Interagency Committee on Energy and Utility Management (ICEUM), and has submitted a Resource Conservation Plan in support of the utility operating budget since January 1976. The Office of Facilities is responsible implementing the Resource Conservation Plan. The College has been a member of the Electricity Deregulation Task Force, has participated with other agencies in the joint procurement of the Electricity Supply and has been the lead agency for the joint procurement of natural gas supply. In FY2004, the College joined other County agencies in forming the Environmental Policy Implementation Task Force(EPITF), and assisted in producing the first Environmental Policy Issues and Action Report. In FY2006 and FY2007 the College participated with other County Agencies in crafting Green Building Legislation which was passed by the County Council in the first half of FY2007. Current building designs will obtain LEED Certification while future buildings will obtain LEED Silver Certification.
Click her to view the Montgomery College FY 2009 Conservation Plan
