For Immediate Release
September 17, 2015

Ground Broken: Renewable Energy & STEM Center Coming to Grant Campus

State and local elected officials, Suffolk County Community College students, faculty and administration  celebrated the ground breaking of a  two-story, 33,792- square-foot Renewable Energy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Center on the Suffolk County Community College Michael J. Grant, Brentwood campus on September 17. The new center  will be the first of its kind in the state community college system. Fifty percent of the $19.5 million center’s funding comes from New York State.

The new facility will house laboratories and classrooms to teach installation, maintenance and repair of solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal and other green power technologies, according to Suffolk County Community College President Dr. Shaun L. McKay who said plans call for the building to be solar-powered with geothermal heating.