The US Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded LEED Gold certification to Carnegie Mellon University’s Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies on its campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
Designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, the centres accommodate a total of 217,000ft2 of classrooms, offices and laboratories and include landscaping designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.
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The new buildings serve as a crossroads for the 143-acre campus, with five main entrances on three levels and two major pedestrian bridges.
Almost 98% of on-site construction waste from the buildings was reused or otherwise diverted from landfills and more than 15% of the building materials were manufactured using recycled materials.
Around 30% of these materials were manufactured within 500 miles of Pittsburgh, and sustainable forests provided more than half of the wood used in the buildings.
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The buildings incorporate a rainwater and snowmelt collection system to collect water for flushing toilets, and feature low-flow lavatories and low-flush urinals to reduce potable water use by half.
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