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SNAPSHOTS GREEN MODEL SHINES: USCD STUDENT ACADEMIC SERVICES FACILITY The multi-award-winning University of California, San Diego’s Student Academic Services Facility serves as a prime example highperformance design, as well as a model for sustainable design of higher education buildings. The new five-story, 141,000-square-foot Student Academic Services Facility embraces myriad sustainable design features. Designed by renowned San Diego architect Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA, and built by McCarthy Building Companies, the L-shaped facility houses multiple departments. The facility also includes a 300-seat multipurpose room that features 16-foot rollup windows that open onto the courtyard, an immense drop ceiling with enhanced acoustics, and concrete block wall. Sustainable design elements were integrated throughout the project, including site selection that took into account solar orientation; drip irrigation and other highefficiency irrigation systems; FSC-certified lumber; 20 percent better than current California Title 24 energy-efficiency standards; high-performance glazing; daylighting that meets the majority of daytime lighting needs; full spectrum fluorescent lights and high-efficiency electron ballasts; low-emitting adhesives, sealants, carpet and composite wood products; and distinctive recycled plastic lumber sunscreens that provide shading over the south and west facing windows. Want to know more? One particularly challenging aspect of the project was the extensive concrete work, which McCarthy self-performed utilizing Colton Type III concrete cement. Learn how this was overcome, as well as other con- struction challenges and how Building Information Modeling technology was used for this project only at www.EDCmag.com. ADAPTABLE DESIGN: FSU LIFE SCIENCE BUILDING Florida State University’s new science quadrangle, home to the University’s College of Medicine and Department of Psychology, continues to take shape with the completion of The James E. “Jim” King Jr. Building, a LEED-registered Life Sciences building completed in June for the Department of Biological Science. In the middle of the quad, and also new, is a green roof landscaped plaza spanning a cage wash facility shared by all three buildings via tunnels. The $55 million, 180,000-square-foot Life Sciences building, 10,000-square-foot cage wash facility and plaza were designed by the team of Tallahassee-based Elliott Marshall Innes, P .A. (EMI) and the Atlanta office of Lord, Aeck & Sargent. EMI, as architect of record, designed the Thermafiber insulation. It’s this green. mineral wo SP I F IE D * EC than e mor rb ra n ds of com m rc e ia l ol Thermaﬁber mineral wool has the highest available recycled content of all commercial insulation: • Thermaﬁber mineral wool: Up to 90% • Ordinary mineral wool: 50% • Glass ﬁber: 40% So if you want to help the environment and make your clients happy (by earning up to 20 LEED credits across 4 categories), you’ll want Thermaﬁber mineral wool. It’s the greenest commercial insulation you can get. For more information, download our new green brochure at: green.thermaﬁber.com. Phone: 888-834-2371 www.thermaﬁber.com *Reed Construction Data, June 27, 2008 over o th e SEPTEMBER 2008 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION UCSD’s L-shaped student services facility utilizes sunshading systems, daylighting and other energy-efficient strategies. Photos by Stephen Whalen Photography READER SERVICE NO. 170 WWW.EDCMAG.COM/WEBCARD 8/21/08 10:35:35 AM 10:34:03 33 EDC09084THER.indd 1 1010-18410 Thermafiber Green Ad_ED&C_Half_v05.indd 1 http://www.EDCmag.com http://www.thermafiber.com http://green.thermafiber.com http://www.edcmag.com/webcard

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