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More Information: Commemorating National Architecture Week (April 12-18) at Penn |
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April 14, 2015, Volume 61, No. 30 |
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• Which Penn building has the highest LEED certification?
The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded Platinum Level LEED Certification, the highest rating of the U.S. Green Building Council for its Horticulture Center which had been striving for LEED Gold when it was designed but exceeded that (Almanac November 23, 2010).
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The Horticulture Center |
On campus, (Almanac August 26, 2014) Penn has six buildings with LEED Gold Certification:
• the Music Building (Almanac April 27, 2010),
• the Golkin Hall (Almanac October 22, 2013),
• the Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Almanac August 26, 2014),
• the Weiss Pavilion (Almanac January 31, 2012),
• Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall (SH-DH) West Tower Entrance addition (Almanac August 26, 2014),
• Joe’s Café in SH-DH (Almanac March 29, 2011).
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The Music Building |
Golkin Hall |
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The Weiss Pavilion |
Joe’s Café in Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall |
• Another Penn LEED Gold building is Wharton San Francisco.
• The renovation of the first and second floors of Vance Hall has recently received LEED for Commercial Interiors Silver Certification.
• Which Penn building is the smallest?
The 1910 carriage house behind the Greenfield Intercultural Center is the smallest building with 873 gross square feet. It was renovated in 1982.
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Carriage House behind the Greenfield Intercultural Center. Photograph by Marguerite F. Miller. |
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