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Green Building, Red Tape
Some colleges have decided to build sustainably but skip costly LEED certification. (Photo courtesy Northern Arizona U.)
Princeton Review Will Issue 'Green' Ratings in Coming College Guide
Guest Blogger: Lawrence Speck
Why you should avoid slavish devotion to a single style
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In California, Millions Are Distributed for Stem-Cell Research
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Modernism in Albany
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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.
A Modular, Customizable Campus in the Twin Cities, Soon Looking for Tenants
A new kind of campus will begin emerging just outside the Twin Cities this year, according to a story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The company Metropolitan Lifelong Learning Center will erect modular, customizable buildings on a very traditional-looking campus in Chaska, Minn., then line up higher-education institutions as tenants who will fill the rooms with satellite classes and lectures.
“They could lease space to anyone from Harvard to North Dakota State,” Gary Van Eyll, mayor of Chaska, told the Minneapolis newspaper. The campus “will have everything that a college has but a football team.”
Final details on the design are being hammered out now. Groundbreaking on the project may occur in the fall and classes would begin in 2010. The project is expected to cost $88-million. The article speculates that the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system would be a tenant. —Scott Carlson
Scott Carlson | Thursday March 27, 2008 | Permalink | Contact us
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