Environmental Studies 399: Thinking About Green Building
The focus of this seminar was the topic of Green Buildings. We began the semester
in a traditional class setting and moved rapidly into a series of presentations
by guest speakers that will helped usunderstand the global, regional, and local
context for Green Buildings. We heard from architects, engineers and a variety
of people who have been working with the topic of buildings, Green Building,
and sustainable design. We worked to understand the basic science of buildings
and the various options and concerns related to materials, design, and operation.
We used the current planning for new and/or renovated science facilities at
St. Olaf that comes from a recently completed
Feasibility Report created for St. Olaf by Holabird
& Root working in conjunction with RFD.
Our ultimate goal was to provide a report to St. Olaf outlining steps that the
College can take to realize its design goals of "reflect[ing] good stewardship
through environmentally sound construction and operation."
A copy of our final report is available on request!
Link
to new (under construction) St. Olaf green science building resources WWW page
Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide and Misc. Seminar Resources
Minnesota Sustainable
Design Guide
References on Closed
Reserve in Science Library
Class Syllabus.
Group Assignments.
Images of recently completed posters describing monitoring of current Science
Building for issues dealing with water, site and materials, energy, indoor environment, and waste. Note that images of posters are
not of sufficient quality to read.
Planning Documents for St. Olaf
1996 Campus Framework Plan
Links to Information about Green Campus
Carnegie Mellon Green Design
Initiative
Northand College
Green Science Building
Oberlin College Lewis
Center for Environmental Studies and David Orr
York Computer Science
Building
Links to other Green Building and Sustainable Design Sites
Buildings Technology Center
Consortium
on Green Design and Manufacturing (CGDM)
Ecodesign Resource Center
Environmental Building News
Environmental Design Collaborative
Environmental Design and Construction Magazine
EPA Energy Star Program
Green Builder Program
Green Building Information Council
U.S. Green Building Council and Leeds
GreenClips
Green Design Network
Green Institute
Minnesota OES
Green Building WWW Site NEW
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