Shop Talk: Fired Up About Green at Ithaca College, Fresh Linen at UMass, and More

(Courtesy of Ithaca College)

Red hot and green: Ithaca College, which may become the first college to have two LEED platinum buildings on its campus, has just gotten certification for one of them, the business college (right). Interesting aside: Two Chronicle reporters who went to Ithaca College for a media training session this summer said that dry vegetation on the building’s green roof caught on fire during a fireworks display. The small fire was put out immediately, Ithaca’s public-relations office said.

New again: Aycock Auditorium, a 1927 building at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will reopen after a $19-million renovation.

Fresh linen: A housing shortage at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell has a couple hundred students living in a Radisson Hotel about 10 miles away from campus. “I’m pretty pumped about it. It’s nice. Fresh linen every week,” one freshman told the Nashua Telegraph.

Welcome mat: A $16-million, 62,000-square-foot nursing college — which will open in 2010 — will serve as a gateway building for the University of Alabama’s Tuscaloosa campus, according to The Birmingham News.