Did You Know?

• The electricity saved by converting all 259 parking lot poles at BRiC to LED in 2021 is enough to power eleven homes?
• The water in BRiC’s center lake also fills the interior fire suppression sprinkler system.
• BRiC’s 123 acres is equal to 93 football fields.
• BRiC’s center lake holds enough water to fill 14 Olympic swimming pools are 9.4 million gallons.
• BRiC’s generator plant produces enough combined power to supply over 1,000 homes.
• BRiC has over two miles of common area interior hallways? Get your steps in and enjoy the artwork on display throughout the hallways!
• The IBM personal computer invented on campus was priced at $1,565 in 1981, equivalent to $4,840 today.
• IBM invented the first smartphone on campus. They conceived the idea in the 1970s but did not unveil their smartphone prototype – COMDEX – until 1992.
• The 1,600 mature trees throughout campus help remove over 76,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the environment each year.
• BRiC is the birthplace of the first personal computer.
• Arguably the greatest business deal of all time occurred right on campus. Bill Gates decided to license his operating system to IBM – rather than selling it – in what we now call the 5000 building.