14 DAY TRIAL // Having invested a rather significant amount of money (approximately $290 million) in renovating its campus, the University now wants to make sure that its brand new buildings and facilities are environmentally friendly enough to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.
According to Environmental Leader, a software designed by Locus Technologies was recently commissioned by the University of Texas.
Known as the ePortal platform, the software supposedly helps make sure that the activities carried out at the university are complying with all of the rules and regulations of truly green academic environments.
By monitoring all of the existing facilities, this software lets the management know whether the consumption of energy or water exceeds the eco-friendly limits or not.
It is expected that such measures will help optimize the use of environmental resources on campus and that this will, in turn, lead to a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
This isn't the first time that the University of Texas has shown a genuine concern for environmental issues.
On the contrary, prior to using this ePortal, the campus staff was required to use Microsoft Outlook and register the tasks they performed throughout the course of one day.
They will thus manage to keep a close eye on their activities and the ways they impact on the natural world.
In last year's December, Del Monde Foods, one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of processed foods, also resorted to using Locus Technologies' ePortal, for the very same reasons that the University of Texas is using it now.
As well as this, in January 2012 it was made public that ChemAdvisor, a chemical regulatory company, plans to make its database readily available to those who are using the ePortal.
This means that customers of Locus Technologies' will be granted an extremely easy access to basic information on very specific chemicals.
Thus, the ePortal platform will become quite a precious tool for those who want both to take care of our planet's natural resources and to keep a close eye on the potentially damaging effects of certain chemical they happen to be dealing with at certain moments.