Maximize uptime and improve efficiency for higher education environments

Transform your campus into a beacon of sustainability and innovation. Carrier higher education solutions deliver intelligent climate control and energy-efficient HVAC systems designed for the needs of modern institutions. When you choose Carrier, you partner with the industry leader that understands the unique challenges facing educational environments.

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Systems and solutions that support your operational, energy and sustainability goals

Carrier commercial HVAC education solutions provide comprehensive lifecycle management for higher education environments. Our infrastructure operates reliably and delivers both energy and operational cost optimization, creating healthy indoor environments that are essential to learning success. As your proven, end-to-end strategic partner, we deliver innovative Carrier education solutions at every stage of the equipment lifecycle to optimize learning environments. Our campus climate control expertise and technologies help you meet your institution’s education sustainability goals.

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Lifecycle Solutions for Higher Education Institutions

Carrier delivers lifecycle solutions and customer support tailored to your institution’s unique needs through our comprehensive service expertise. Maximize uptime by ensuring critical campus climate control systems run continuously. Achieve sustainability goals with energy-efficient HVAC solutions that align with your long-term objectives. Reduce costs through intelligent system management to enhance your institution’s efficiency. Improve performance with advanced higher education cooling technologies and create healthier learning environments with superior indoor air quality across campus.

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Carrier’s leading energy service company, NORESCO, helps clients address and mitigate climate change impacts through decarbonization, modernization and electrification of aging infrastructure. NORESCO deploys distributed energy, storage and renewable solutions that improve campus health and efficiency. So far, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy and operating cost savings at over 10,000 facilities, reducing customer CO2 emissions by more than 25 million metric tons. With services such as energy-as-a-service, performance contracting, design-build-own-operate-maintain (DBOOM) and sustainability consulting, Carrier offers expertise in energy efficiency, carbon reduction and turnkey project delivery using traditional and renewable technologies.

Carrier equips building owners and operators with digital tools to monitor and manage building automation campuses. Our platforms, such as Automated Logic, provide real-time monitoring for indoor air quality and energy management. Carrier Abound®, our cloud-based suite, makes buildings more responsive and efficient, delivers predictive insights and automated actions to optimize performance. Nlyte's DCIM software streamlines asset and process management for computing infrastructure.

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Carrier’s broad portfolio of services and solutions is grounded in years of experience with commercial HVAC education systems and campus climate control requirements. Our BluEdge service maximizes system performance and protects your investment to ensure system reliability well into the future. We offer temporary heating, cooling and power with Carrier rental systems and 24-7 emergency response, plus innovative, efficient equipment tailored for higher education cooling needs.

Equipment Solutions to Help Improve Your Higher Education Institution

Carrier provides energy-efficient HVAC solutions, digital platforms, and support services. Modern systems enhance health, sustainability and operations, with expert design, installation and maintenance.

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Air-Cooled Chillers

Air-cooled chillers from Carrier use non-ozone depleting refrigerant, are simple to install, provide strong efficiency and feature powerful controls. These systems are ideal for campus climate control applications.

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Water-Cooled Chillers

Carrier water-cooled chillers come in scroll, screw, or centrifugal models, with capacities ranging from 16 to 5,500 tons, providing flexible cooling solutions for campuses of any size.

Air Handling Units

Carrier air handling units deliver advanced technology and customizable features in straightforward, easy-to-install packages designed specifically for the needs of building automation campuses and educational facilities.

Simplified Procurement with Cooperative Purchasing Programs

Carrier partners with cooperative agencies and state contracts to simplify procurement for educational institutions. This approach allows schools to meet all competitive bidding requirements while aggregating purchasing power for easier, faster and more economical access to commercial HVAC education equipment and controls.

Association Educational Purchasing Agencies

AEPA helps schools access competitively bid contracts for high-quality products like Carrier’s HVAC solutions, saving time and money.

California Multiple Award Schedules

CMAS provides California agencies with pre-approved contracts, allowing easy access to Carrier’s HVAC solutions while ensuring compliance.

BuyBoard

BuyBoard simplifies procurement for public entities by offering approved Carrier HVAC solutions through a competitively bid process.

COSTARS (State of Pennsylvania)

COSTARS enables Pennsylvania organizations to access Carrier’s HVAC solutions with a cost-effective, simplified bidding process.

E&I Cooperative Services

E&I offers Carrier HVAC solutions through competitively awarded contracts, helping education and nonprofit organizations save on procurement.

Omnia Partners

Omnia Partners connects public sector entities with Carrier HVAC solutions, ensuring competitive pricing and streamlined procurement.

Sourcewell

Sourcewell provides compliant, competitively awarded contracts to access Carrier’s energy-efficient HVAC systems for public and nonprofit organizations.

The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS)

TIPS simplifies HVAC procurement for educational institutions with reliable Carrier commercial systems and campus climate solutions.

Public Private Partnership (P3)

Additional HVAC Buying Options for Higher Education Institutions

Carrier offers public private partnership agreements that share risk and financial rewards for services, facilities or energy-efficient HVAC equipment. Each agreement is customized to fit the infrastructure and financial needs of your institution, helping you achieve lasting reliability for your HVAC systems and meaningful progress toward education sustainability.

The benefits of P3 arrangements include long-term budget stability, relief from complex maintenance responsibilities, improved resiliency and sustainability with greater reliability for essential campus climate control infrastructure. Projects can be funded through savings streams, revenue streams, user fees, or a mix of sources and agreements typically last more than 20 years and come with maintenance and repair services from Carrier’s experienced team.

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Case Studies

Explore how Carrier higher education solutions have empowered institutions to achieve superior HVAC lifecycle management and sustainability goals.

Wake Tech East Central Energy Plant

Wake Tech’s award-winning central energy plant redefines how educational institutions integrate advanced Carrier education solutions and energy-efficient HVAC technologies to deliver outstanding campus climate control.

University of Alabama in Huntsville

By choosing Carrier, the University of Alabama in Huntsville implemented innovative commercial HVAC education solutions for a new facility, aligning with its sustainability goals while ensuring comfortable, reliable environments for students and faculty.

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island partnered with NORESCO to enhance energy efficiency, achieving $24.8 million in improvements and advancing emissions reductions.

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