Fashion Institute of Technology

FIT has already completed many sustainable projects on campus. Each year a sustainability conference is held on campus and FIT reports to the college community the projects that have been completed, as well as those that are planned or in progress.
Partners dedicated to achieving these targets are and have been the New York Power Authority, Clean Air New York, New York City Department of Buildings, Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, Department of City Administrative Services, New York City Office of Energy and Conservation and New York Power Authority Peak Load Management Program.

In summer of 2012, we will proceed with the HVAC refurbishment and replacement in our Co-Ed dormitory. This building is 15 stories, 90,000 GSF with 233 Units. FIT’s goal is to reduce the carbon emission from the building. The existing equipment uses steam as the source of energy. It is estimated that approximately $10,000 a month will be saved with this conversion.

Currently FIT has one green roof on the Shirley Goodman Resource Center. In addition, in 2012-2013, FIT will install a green roof on the David Dubinsky Student Center building. The new underlying roof will be insulated with a reinforced cold fluid applied system with a 20 year No Dollar Limit (NDL). It will contain six inches of engineered soil, vegetation and water-storing sedum. This will reduce the amount of rain water runoff into the streets.

In the summer of 2011, FIT installed four (4) Elkay Water Refill systems and counts indicate that we have saved 100,713 plastic bottles to date. The college also installed a digital book reader in its library in March of 2010. To date we have saved 140,000 sheets of paper by scanning in lieu of photocopies.

Deliverables
Deliverable	Date
Elkay Water Refill systems	2015
HVAC refurbishment and replacement	2015
Green roof installation	2015

Resources devoted to delivery
Type	Details
Staff / Technical expertise	Expertise of students and staff concerning sustainable development