Founded in 1912, Milwaukee Area Technical College has grown to become one of the Midwest’s largest community-based technical colleges.
MATC offers pre-college, technical four-year college transfer and short-term educational opportunities to about 57,000 students each year.
Students can select from 200 degree, diploma, certificate and apprentice programs spread across four campuses. For additional information, visit: www.matc.edu.
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Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) officials have retrofitted a six-story, 900- vehicle parking garage, replacing high-pressure sodium lights with LED lighting products from BetaLED™.
More than 500 BetaLED fixtures are now illuminating the garage located at North 8th and West State Streets on campus. Energy use for the garage’s lighting is reduced by 55 percent and the college expects to recoup $25,000 annually in maintenance costs savings over the 12-year life of the fixtures.
‘MATC is committed to implementing new technologies that help us reduce energy use today as well as providing a clear path to help us stave off the effects of the electricity rate hikes we all anticipate,” said Vicki J. Martin, Ph.D., MATC interim president. “With help from Johnson Controls, this project serves as a demonstration of MATC’s commitment to ongoing sustainability initiatives and an example to our students and community of the significant steps we are taking to reduce energy consumption and our carbon footprint.”
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