{"215901":{"#nid":"215901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LEED List Goes Platinum with New Certifications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdding to Georgia Tech\u2019s catalog of sustainability honors, the Institute in recent months put three new LEED buildings on its list, which now includes one of the largest academic buildings to earn LEED Platinum certification.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/clough.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EClough Undergraduate Learning Commons\u003C\/a\u003E earned the platinum designation nearly two years after it opened in 2011, a goal that was in the minds of staff, designers and project managers from the beginning of design and construction. Clough Commons is topped with a green roof as well as solar panels, and the adjacent Tech Green is home to a 1.4 million gallon cistern that provides water for toilet flushing and landscaping.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory building, part of the North Avenue Research Park Complex, was designated LEED platinum in January. The 42,000-square-foot facility houses offices and labs for research on energy-related solutions such as high-efficiency combustion engines, biomass gasification kinetics, biochemical-enzymatic conversion of biomass materials and capture of carbon dioxide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the west edge of campus, renovations to the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/health.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStamps Health Services\u003C\/a\u003E building enabled the facility to become LEED certified for Commercial Interiors. Stamps provides for students\u2019 health-related needs, including medical, dental, optical, psychiatric and pharmaceutical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech\u2019s three newest LEED-certified buildings join the ranks of six other campus structures that are certified at various levels: the College of Business (silver), Klaus Advanced Computing Building (gold), Old Civil Engineering Building (gold), Zelnak Center (gold), Women\u2019s Softball Complex (gold) and North Avenue Apartments (gold).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther facilities currently under LEED review with the U.S. Green Building Council include the Historic Academy of Medicine, McCamish Pavilion, Ken Byers Tennis Complex and Stephen C. Hall Building. Since 2009, all new construction and renovations on campus have been conducted to meet or exceed LEED Gold standards.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdding to Georgia Tech\u2019s catalog of sustainability honors, the Institute in recent months put three new LEED buildings on its list, which now includes one of the largest academic buildings to earn LEED Platinum certification.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2013-06-03 03:22:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:20","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68550":{"id":"68550","type":"image","title":"Clough Commons Interior","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Clough Commons Interior","file":{"fid":"193330","name":"11e8001-p5-113.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11e8001-p5-113_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11e8001-p5-113_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6687033,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/11e8001-p5-113_0.jpg?itok=LNe_2Mml"}}},"media_ids":["68550"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"492","name":"green"},{"id":"2067","name":"LEED"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}