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Sustainability at Yale University
The Office of Sustainability at Yale University is making great strides toward achieving and maintaining sustainable operations across campus. Several buildings which have been recently completed or are sill in the planning stages have achieved high marks in terms of their ‘sustainability indices’. This includes the recently renovated Stoeckel Hall.
Two of Yale’s residential colleges, through a grant from the Rocky Mountain Institute, are installing energy monitor systems to allow students to first monitor and then self-regulate energy usage in an attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The latest on this development can be found in the Yale Daily News article here.
The interior of Kroon Hall. Yale School of Forestry
The newest edition to the Yale School of Forestry, Kroon Hall, pictured above, has achieved ‘ultra-green’ status and a platinum rating from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). The full story can be found here.
The Yale School of Engineering has installed several wind turbines atop one of its main laboratory facilities, designed to generate up to 26 megawatt hours per year. More information on these turbines and their operation can be found here.
