CHICAGO — A groundbreaking ceremony took place in downtown Chicago for East-West University’s new 165,000-square-foot Student Life Center, which will offer students an option of on-campus housing for the first time in the history of the university.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Southern Illinois College in Belleville, Ill. will receive LEED certification for an addition to an existing building on campus with completion expected by winter 2012.
SEATTLE — Turner Construction’s Seattle office recently won a contract for the University of Washington’s underground light rail project, University Link. The construction will extend 3.15 miles and will serve the three largest urban centers in Washington: downtown Seattle, Capitol Hill and the University District. The extensive project is slated for completion by 2016.
Turner is also working with the school on another project at UW. The company is in charge of renovating the school’s football stadium, Husky Stadium.
CHECOTAH, Okla. — Checotah Public Schools is in the process of constructing a $15.4 million high school that will be powered by geothermal energy, a renewable resource. Construction will be completed by fall 2012.
The 120,000-square-foot school was slated for completion in 2011 but construction delays and bad weather pushed the timeline back.
Wet weather caused several of the construction delays at the site, including the inability to use cranes to hoist beams into place.
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz.— Col. Smith Middle School, part of the Fort Huachuca Accommodation School District (FHASD) in Arizona, will be the first net-zero energy school in the state.
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VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia claims they have the “greenest building” in North America and will provide net positive energy benefits to the e
KEENE, N.H. — Keene State College’s Courtyard and Outdoor Learning Environment recently earned landscape architecture firm Dirtworks PC’s one of two awards from the Boston Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
The courtyard was awarded in the College and University Design category for its natural science learning space at the New Hampshire College.
The new 161-unit private student apartment building at USC is designed for both sustainability and luxury.
LOS ANGELES — A new eco-friendly 161-unit student housing apartment building opened in May at the University of Southern California (USC), designed to balance “exceptional amenities” with sustainability.
