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Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Art & Architecture Renovations Near Completion at Yale U.
Paul Rudolph's 1963 Brutalist icon is getting a makeover, plus an addition by Charles Gwathmey.
Guest Blogger: Anne Stephenson
Even the greenest construction project increases a college’s carbon footprint.
Other News
Land-Rich Universities Weigh New Options for Real-Estate Development
Universities are taking advantage of new ways to develop their holdings through corporate partnerships, a new report says.
U. of Iowa Begins Mucking Out and Assessing the Damage
The university's insurer spent the weekend starting to assess the damage to the auditorium and 19 other flooded buildings.
U. of Iowa Flooding Takes Costly Toll in Research and Equipment
Parking lots are under water, some roads leading to the campus are closed, and the campus utility infrastructure is damaged.
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
An Architecture Award Asks: Is It Livable?
DeAnza College’s Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies has won an architecture award for being both efficient and pleasant for occupants (DeAnza College image).
A story in the San Jose Mercury News focuses on the Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies, at De Anza College. The center’s building recently won a Livable Buildings Award from the Center for the Built Environment, at the University of California at Berkeley. The awards recognize buildings that “demonstrate exceptional performance in terms of occupant satisfaction, resource efficiency, and overall design.”
DeAnza’s building uses sunlight for illumination. The Mercury News reporter, Crystal Lu, notes a finding that “students improved their English and math scores by 15 percent to 22 percent when taking tests in natural daylight.” Passive-solar heating also warms the building in the winter.
The Center for the Built Environment says its awards program is unique because “it is the only one to include the preferences of building occupants in its selection criteria.” The Global Ecology Research Center, at Stanford University, and the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, in Annapolis, Md., were the other two award winners. Donald Bren Hall, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, was among the finalists from higher education.
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