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PepsiCo Recycling
Increases
Sustainability Funding
PepsiCo Recycling is expanding its second year of the Zero Impact Fund, which offers eligible colleges and univer- sities an opportunity to bring campus eco-innovations to life. Through the Zero Impact Fund, schools can submit ideas to accomplish their environmental goals, with winning applications receiving up to $10,000 each. In its first year, the Zero Impact Fund received applications from more than 40 different campuses and awarded grants to eight schools.
For the 2017-2018 school year, colleges and universities interested in submitting
project proposals for PepsiCo Recycling’s Zero Impact Fund should complete an application at PepsiCoRecycling.com on or before December 19.
Schools selected to receive fund- ing from the Zero Impact Fund will be notified during the week of January 29, and funding will be provided to initiate projects as early as February 2018.
2017 Education
Operations Health Index
The inaugural 2017 Education Opera- tions Health Index (OHI)webinar on November 9, 2017, is a compilation of data gathered from education profession- als, providing an overview of the current
Hot Tips
This Month
Building Products
Glazed Brick
BRICK HAS BEEN PROVEN FOR CENTURIES
and offers superior protection over other wall cladding material, making it the ideal choice for schools and other large, noteworthy buildings. Like traditional brick, glazed brick units have been an integral part of buildings for hundreds of years and have performed well under all climatic conditions. Glazed brick can be used on both interior and exte- rior settings, as accent brick or as the field brick covering an entire façade.
Glazed brick can present a bright, bold, colorful statement while maintaining the durability of a brick. Clear glazes can also be applied to traditional brick, delivering the same unique glazed advantages to standard brick colors.
A glaze is a vitrified coating bonded to the surface of an extruded brick. During a single- fire process, the brick unit and a ceramic glaze coating are fired at the same time, causing a fired bond between the glaze and the brick unit, making them far superior to double-fired products. Double-fired glazes have physical properties which are inferior to those of single- fired glazes due to a lower firing temperature during the second fire.
The resulting product displays a hardened surface that’s integrated into the surface of the brick and is the ideal means for adding a gorgeous finish and color to any educational setting.
Glazed brick offers the means to choose from an infinite array of colors — custom color options means schools and colleges
can match paint and Pantone swatches that scream school spirit. Glazed brick is virtu-
ally maintenance free; the bricks will never discolor, peel or need to be painted. Attractive features of glazed products also include:
• Impervious to liquids and gases
• Long-lasting,consistentandnon-fadingcolors • Graffiti- and abrasion-resistant
Tim Leese is marketing services manager for Glen-Gery. He can be contacted at tim.leese@ glengery.com.
Gaston College Opens Center for
Advanced Manufacturing
The Gaston College Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM), an educational and training facility located adjacent to the college’s Dallas, NC, campus, was formally dedicated on September 15.
With strong financial support from local, state and federal funders, construction on the 21,000-square-foot building began in November 2015.
CAM is designed to accommodate many of the advanced and technology-rich indus- trial training programs offered by Gaston College. Building a facility with specialized classroom, laboratory and training space for developing skilled workers was the objec- tive. Designated laboratory and training spaces include: CAM Integrated Lab (CAMIL), mechatronics, computer-aided design (CAD), plastics and chemicals processes, indus- trial systems technology, instrumentation, alternative energy and robotics.
Also included in the Center are a reception area, offices, a conference room and classrooms. New industries seeking to locate in this region are invited to establish a “home base” in offices and meeting spaces at CAM until their permanent facilities are operational.
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