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Regents Hall featured in ‘The World’s Greenest Buildings’
St. Olaf College's Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences is highlighted in The World's Greenest Buildings, a new book from Routledge Publishing.
St. Olaf College’s Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences is highlighted in The World’s Greenest Buildings, a new book from Routledge Publishing.
The authors, Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer, examined hundreds of the highest-rated “green” buildings around the world and profiled what they believe to be the top 49 examples of sustainable architecture, design, and performance.
Regents Hall, which the book notes “is perhaps the most prominent expression of the college’s 23-year-old sustainability agenda,” is one of just five U.S. academic buildings highlighted.
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The book’s in-depth profile of Regents Hall praises the facility’s emphasis on green chemistry, a growing movement that seeks to reduce the hazardous waste created during laboratory experiments. It also highlights the building’s rooftop rainwater collection system and “green” roof, as well as a number of other features aimed at energy efficiency.