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FACILITIES
Western Michigan
University's pod-style
housing features
purposeful community
spaces within each
'House' to promote
social interaction.
PHOTO CREDIT: © CURT CLAYTON
Buildings That Teach
Steering toward greener living on campus
For today's first-year students, issues
like climate change, biodiversity and
habitat loss, green building, and
sustainability have been mainstream
throughout their lifetimes. Sierra
magazine reports that "more than
two-thirds of high schoolers say that
whether a college is green factors into
their selection process." Furthermore,
residence halls can be seen as living
laboratories for the student experience
- and if they do not reflect sustainability
values, then does the institution risk
presenting itself as not caring about the
environment? At their best, residence
halls can actively demonstrate and
reinforce a culture of environmental
and social responsibility. Here are
some current sustainability trends and
how they are influencing the design of
student housing.
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KNOWLEDGE
DOMAINS
TALKING STICK
in this article
by Jim Nicolow and
Jackson Kane
Many campuses have buildings
from the 1950s through the 1970s
that lack functional space for either
living or learning or both. Some
institutions have the opportunity
to recycle these legacy structures
instead of razing them, which can
have significant environmental
benefits. Recycling these structures
can decrease the embodied carbon
that went in to their construction, the
waste generated in their demolition,
and the embodied carbon associated
with new construction.
When Agnes Scott College, a
liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia,
sought to create an innovative new
living-learning community on
campus, the design team found that
an abandoned laboratory building
could be renewed and repurposed to
house the new program. Campbell
Hall sat vacant in the heart of
campus for more than 10 years and
had become a campus liability, not
an asset. Combining suite-style
housing for 96 students with a
prime campus location surrounded
by academic buildings, the renewed
and LEED Gold Certified Campbell
Hall now provides a model of green
campus living. An early signatory of
the American College & University
Presidents Climate Commitment,
Agnes Scott made sure that Campbell
would encompass a host of green
building features and technologies.
The building was removed from the
Facilities Management
Develop and institute processes for the recycling, reuse, or
regeneration of materials, facilities, and equipment.
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Contents
Vision
Just In
Calendar
Your ACUHO-I
Transitions
Res Life
Facilities
Special Focus
Conversations
First Takes
Around Student Affairs
New Members
Snapshot
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Talking Stick - March/April 2017 - Vision
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Talking Stick - March/April 2017 - Just In
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Talking Stick - March/April 2017 - First Takes
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