MSU Sustainability Tour: Above and Underground

Description

Discover MSU underground and take a walking tour of the vastly unknown MSU heat plant, tunnels and energy infrastructure. Participants will walk through the tunnels, building systems and ground-source heat pump systems, learning about their history, function and MSU's conservation efforts to save resources and money throughout campus.

After the underground tour, an above-ground campus tour will highlight sustainability features on, around and in the campus, such as solar walls, rooftop solar electric, heat pump water heaters, native gardens, landscaping and stormwater retention.

This tour will highlight the history of energy on campus from the early 1900s to the present state-of-the-art systems MSU is applying.

For those interested, there will be an optional no-host group dinner at the MSU Rendezvous Dining Pavilion. Rendezvous is a dynamic, public-facing buffet dining facility that is well worth the visit.

Space is limited to 20 people.

Participants will need to be fit and nimble, have good balance, stand and walk for extended periods of time indoors and outside around campus, navigate stairs, step over low obstacles, and walk 1-2 miles. Mobility aids are not able to be used due to the terrain.