The University of Central Missouri is home to 9,500 undergraduate and over 2,000 graduate students on its campus in Warrensburg, a rural community 60 miles from Kansas City. Like most schools, UCM replaces its dormitory furnishings on a planned cycle. Along with room furniture, the school turns over student lounge, reception, and study furnishings on …
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(June 2010) January 2005 was a bad month for the floor at Boston University’s Brown Arena. After 30 years hosting men’s and women’s hoops – coaches like Rick Pitino, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Calhoun, players like Reggie Lewis, Christian Laettner, and Grant Hill – after holding up a tennis court for Billie Jean King and Chris …
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As a leading school in environmental engineering, Drexel practices what it preaches. Drexel has a serious commitment to sustainability in energy use, building practices, waste reduction and recycling. … and Nowhere to Put It In 2010 Drexel began to look at the reuse or recycling potential in its surplus assets. Drexel realized that most of …
Drexel University – Perfectly Good Stuff, and Nowhere to Put it Read More »
When we heard about the Joplin tornado on May 22, 2011, our first reaction was the shock that was shared nationwide. Our second was to ask what IRN could do to help. We have access to a large quantity and variety of usable furniture and equipment. How could IRN put our Surplus Program at the …
OVERVIEW Howard University requested the removal of 315 sets of dormitory furniture from a total of approximately 200 rooms scattered among eight different dormitories. Separately, Howard requested removal of some 700 mattresses from a different set of rooms. In order to empty, refresh, and re-fill the rooms with new furnishings, Howard had only a four-day …
Howard University – Eight-Dormitory Cleanout in Downtown Dc Read More »
The Issue: Small Quantities of Surplus San Jose State University (SJSU) has a student population of about 30,500 on an urban campus covering 20 square blocks. Like all big schools, SJSU generates a lot of surplus furniture and equipment. Much comes from large renovation and replacement projects. But a high proportion of SJSU’s surplus comes …
Small Quantity Surplus at San Jose State University, Cost Savings and 100% Reuse Read More »
OVERVIEW MIT is carrying out a complete gut-renovation of the 1938 Sloan Building, for decades the administrative and academic hub of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. After removing all furnishings suitable for reuse on campus, MIT was left with over 800 pieces of mixed office and academic surplus. Consistent with the school’s commitment to Sustainability, …
A Quick-Turnaround Project at MIT Snatches 834 Pieces from the Dumpster Read More »
OVERVIEW The Massachusetts State College Building Authority (MSCBA) approached IRN to discuss a project at Westfield State University, replacing furnishings from about 75 on-campus apartments. Between the date of student move-out and delivery of new furniture, IRN had a window of less than a week to complete the project. IRN offered the furnishings to longtime …
Westfield State to Port-Au-Prince – Bettering the Lives of Haitian Children Read More »
Overview The University of Notre Dame has an active sustainability program, with a serious commitment to waste reduction. Planning a renovation of their Law School library, Notre Dame wanted to do something better than throw their used, but still usable, furniture into a landfill. In late 2008 the school reached out to Business Furnishings, their …
Overview The Art Institute of Philadelphia turned over a 550-student downtown dormitory for conversion to private apartments. New dorm space was established elsewhere in the city, so the 550+ dormitory sets, associated living and dining furniture, plus common area and administrative furnishings were all declared surplus. The Art Institute retained property manager CBRE to oversee …
Art of Philadelphia – 17 Floors, 4,800 Pieces, all at Night Read More »
The Perelman School of Medicine has had a longstanding relationship with Steelcase and their Philadelphia-area dealer, Corporate Interiors. Like nearly all colleges and universities, the Perelman School places a lot of emphasis on Sustainability. And like nearly all Steelcase clients, the School wants Steelcase and their dealer to be a full-service partner, not just a …
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OVERVIEW Home to about 180 students, Roberts Hall is one of the oldest dormitories on the Bucknell campus. Last renovated in the 1930s, the four-story building has two wings separated by a common entry hall. There are no elevators. Students occupied the dormitory through noon on December 18, a Friday. Bucknell scheduled renovations to begin …
Overview: In early 2015, Seton Hall University confirmed an order for about 220 sets of new furniture destined to the school’s 6-story Boland Hall dormitory. Seton Hall asked their furniture supplier for help finding a sustainable alternative to disposing of the furnishings they were replacing. Seton Hall requested a one-stop solution; they just wanted the old furnishings to go away, …
Seton Hall Redirects 220 Sets of Dorm Furniture from Landfill Read More »
“Connecting our state-contract moving vendor with IRN was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done as a Residential Operations professional. The knowledge that our furniture was going to help people instead of rot in a landfill gives me peace of mind and saved us precious budget dollars on tipping fees.” James “JJ” Brice, Associate Director …
Binghamton University – Over 1,000 Pieces of Residential Furniture Captured for Reuse Read More »
Since 2013, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has kept a half-million pounds of used but usable furniture out of regional landfills. The furniture has gone to help children and families in the U.S. and a half dozen countries overseas. Every year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign replaces thousands of pieces of furniture. Bedroom sets and …
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Overview Offering more than 20 Environmental Science degree programs, Southern New Hampshire University is one of the nation’s most dynamic schools in the field. So when SNHU replaced some 240 sets of dormitory furniture, throwing the old pieces away was not an option. The school sought assistance from their waste and recycling partner Casella Resource …
