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PES Doubles Up on Green Certifications

Dave Jones — December 19, 2017 - 10:47am

�鶹app��’ Green Building Team has news to shout from the rooftop of Plant and Environmental Sciences: “This building is a sustainability star!” — as declared by LEED and an international rating system known as BREEAM.

PES is the first �鶹app�� building to receive a BREEAM certification, and it is the first such certification in the United States for an in-use academic building. On top of all that, PES received BREEAM’s first “excellent” rating in the United States in the category of “asset performance,” comprising waste, transport, pollution, materials and energy.

Manetti Shrem Museum Achieves LEED Platinum Distinction

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — January 27, 2017 - 1:19pm

�鶹app�� earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest LEED rating for the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. It is the ninth �鶹app�� project to be platinum-certified in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).

“It is far too tempting to take an art museum and make the architecture unique and otherworldly,” said Julianne Nola, Manetti Shrem project manager for the �鶹app�� Office of Design and Construction Management. “But �鶹app�� had a vision — realized by our design-build team — for a museum that would reflect the spirit of its place.”

�鶹app�� to Break Ground for Large Lecture Hall

Julia Ann Easley — June 02, 2016 - 4:00pm

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The large lecture hall will accommodate up to 600 students.

�鶹app�� will celebrate the groundbreaking for a

Mrak Hall Goes Green and LEED Gold

Dave Jones — February 08, 2016 - 10:19am