Work has been completed on a new energy and cost-saving initiative at ETSU. The Center for Physical Activity is now home to the first solar wall in the state of Tennessee. Preston Construction installed the solar wall on a 3,360-square-foot area of the CPA’s roof. The project took about one month to complete.
Solar collectors will gather heat from the sunlight, which will then travel through the heating units in the building. In addition to reducing the campus’s heating bills, the solar wall will use less electricity than traditional heating methods, thus having a lower impact on the environment.
The solar wall is the only one of its kind on a university campus in Tennessee, and ETSU officials are planning for more energy and cost-saving projects like this in the future.