The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Facility Awarded LEED(TM) Certification
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Contact: Meghan R. Welborn, Public Relations Manager of Cubellis, +1-617- 603-2146, Fax: +1-617-338-0088, mwelborn@cubellis.com; or Tim Kelly of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, +1-609-652- 4989
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Cubellis, a national architectural, interior design, and engineering firm with offices in Philadelphia and New Jersey, and The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey are proud to announce that the college’s F-wing Expansion has been awarded LEED(TM) Certification by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED is the USGBC’s leading edge system for designing and constructing green, energy efficient, high performing buildings.
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The F-Wing Expansion provides additional classrooms and faculty offices within the academic core of the Stockton campus. A central feature of the addition is the sky-lit, two-story atrium, which adds a large public gathering space to the building and provides daylight to the interior of the F-Wing.
The F-Wing Expansion was designed to achieve LEED Certification for energy use, lighting, water and material use as well as incorporating a variety of other sustainable strategies. LEED verifies environmental performance, occupant health and financial return. LEED was established for market leaders to design and construct buildings that protect and save precious resources while also making good economic sense.
“Since its founding, Stockton has been a leader in environmental stewardship,” said Cubellis Principal, William Dix. “College officials allowed and encouraged us to make this project a showpiece of environmentally sensitive design.”
Continuing Stockton’s History of Support for Sustainability
“This wonderful facility has become a focal point of our campus. The College’s F-Wing Expansion reflects Stockton’s longstanding commitment to green technology and sustainability. We actively pursue environmentally responsible decision-making as a leader in environmental stewardship,” said Stockton President Dr. Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.
The College’s strong sustainability credentials include its sensitive land use of the environmentally fragile Pinelands campus, nationally recognized excellence in environmental studies programs, and early adoption of innovative technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use, including geothermal heating and cooling, solar panels, and the new Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System.
A High-Performance, Energy-Efficient Health Learning Environment
“The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey F-Wing Expansion team is to be commended for achieving LEED Certification for the project. This facility is one that both the community and the College can be proud of,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO, Founding Chair US Green Building Council. “The F- Wing Expansion will be a showcase for a high-performance, energy efficient, healthy learning environment, and an inspiration to others.”
The Richard Stockton College F-Wing Expansion includes a number of green design and construction strategies that positively impact the project itself and the broader community. These features include:
— Net reduction in site stormwater runoff
— 40% reduction in water use as compared with normal fixtures
— More than 31% improvement in energy performance as compared with normal
“baseline” energy usage
— Skylit atrium providing daylight to classrooms and offices
— Photovoltaic roof panels providing on-site generation of 7% of the
building’s energy demand
— 100% of building’s annual energy consumption purchased from certified
green energy sources
— 72% of construction waste recycled and diverted from landfill
— 7% of building materials, by cost are from post consumer/ post
industrial recycled material
— More than 21% of materials regionally manufactured
— Preferred parking spaces for carpools
About The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Founded in 1969 as a public, four-year college within the New Jersey system of higher education, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey offers baccalaureate level programs in the arts, sciences, and professional studies and a number of graduate programs. A residential college whose 7,300 full- and part-time students are drawn from throughout the state, Stockton is located at the edge of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, 12 miles northwest of Atlantic City. For more information, visit http://www2.stockton.edu/ .
About Cubellis
Cubellis is an integrated, single-source design firm offering architecture, interior design, and engineering services to a diverse base of national and international clients from offices throughout the country. Cubellis employs more than 90 professionals in its offices in Philadelphia and Wayne, Pennsylvania, and Freehold and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The firm’s practice area expertise includes academic, retail, workplace solutions, residential, mixed use, and hospitality. For more information, visit www.cubellis.com.
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