LEED

Sustainable Structures Without the USGBC Seal

Today, the decision to design more sustainable structures is sort of a no-brainer. As stewards of our environment, we need to create sustainable buildings – but whether or not you certify a building with the USGBC – that’s another discussion. Our recent design efforts at various universities have helped identify different attitudes regarding the question of whether or not to certify projects.

• At the University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign we’ve designed an addition to their historic Huff Gym for their College of Applied Health Sciences. Here we are certifying this design and construction at the Silver level. UIUC’s Facilities & Services Planning Department is programming all projects more than $5 million to be at least LEED™ Silver certified and their Construction Management Department is applying LEED standards and practices to capital projects over $5 million.

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Tags: Eastern Illinois University, Higher Education, Indiana State University, Indiana University, LEED, Millikin University, Purdue University, Sustainable Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USGBC

Teaming for a new CSU Engineering Building

Earlier this year RATIO Architects was fortunate to be selected from a field of over 50 teams to design a new engineering building on the campus of Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, CO. The building will be approximately 100,000 square feet and will exceed LEED Gold standards with a goal of being a zero energy facility.  Our team includes the Denver firm of SLATERPAULL Architects.  Think of this as the first of several posts regarding this, with this as the “announcement” version.

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Tags: architecture, CO State, collaborative design, Design Architect, engineering building, Go Green, Higher Education, LEED, RATIO Architects, Rob Proctor, Sustainable Design