New Green Rating Added to Princeton Report
NEW YORK — The Princeton Review recognized more than 10 U.S. colleges and universities in its Green Rating Honor Roll as part of the green rating introduced with its latest survey.
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Green Mobile Cleaning System
Hydro Systems announced the launch of a new mobile integrated cleaning system, the ICS 8950. It is designed for quick and accurate applications of a single cleaning product at multiple dilution rations, such as when using hydrogen peroxide-based cleaners for floors, glass and sanitary/disinfectant purposes.
Green benefits include energy savings over traditional cord and power-outlet units and a 50 percent reduction of water and chemical consumption, according to the manufacturer.
Greening Corrections Fosters Health, Productivity
Some of the most important benefits of green building design are often overlooked because they are the most difficult to quantify, but safety, health and productivity of correctional officers in particular may be motivating factors in greening correctional facilities.
Indoor Air Quality
Electronically Controlled Window Tinting Helps Schools Earn LEED Certification
ELK RIVER, Minn. — Twin Lakes Elementary School in the Elk River Area School District installed SageGlass’ Electrochromics, a glass tint that is electronically controlled, to help it earn LEED Silver certification.
$94 Million UCSF Building Aims for LEED Silver
SAN FRANCISCO — Construction of a new $94.5 million Institute for Regeneration Medicine Building at University of California, San Francisco, is scheduled to begin this summer.
The 73,000-square-foot building will house the university’s regeneration program and offer space for collaboration among scientific and medical researchers.
Rafael Vinoly Architects designed the building to fit along a narrow hillside between a surface street and UCSF Medical Center. The building will be terraced and will follow the arc of the hillside.
New Facilities to Help Stanford Students Study Green Technologies
STANFORD, Calif. — A sustainable building at Stanford University will do more than lower energy costs: the facility will serve as a hub for researching sustainable building technologies and practices.
University Building’s Passive Design Earns LEED Silver Certification
KENNESAW, Ga. — The passive design concepts at Kennesaw State University’s new social science building help the facility earn LEED Silver certification for its passive design.
The design of the 164,000-square-foot building features window placement that avoids direct light, building materials with recycled content and strategy orientation of the facility.
Most of the green aspects of the building were based on an intuitive, efficient design, says Bill Clark, a principal for Stevenson & Wilkinson Stang & Newdow, Inc., the design firm for the project.
Community Ties
Green Schools Offer New Lessons
In the new age of green buildings, input from school officials, parents and the community is crucial to ensure that a new facility is designed with components that are the most beneficial to the people it serves. Environmentally friendly bells and whistles are rendered irrelevant and sometimes become costly add-ons if they are not understood, accepted and harnessed by the community.