New Halls Bring Home Silver

Optimized energy performance may seem like a dry topic, but it’s one of the features that earned Magnolia and Dogwood residence halls and North Dining Hall LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certifications this semester. Undergraduate residents have occupied the residence halls since fall […]


Faces of Sustainability: Paul Borick

Behind every green building, there is a team of designers and builders who imagined and built it. For several buildings at Wake Forest, Paul Borick is an important member of that team.  Borick is a Registered Architect and Senior Project Manager for WFU Facilities & […]


Faces of Sustainability: Rogan Kersh

As a member of the graduating class of 1986, Wake Forest’s new Provost, Dr. Rogan Kersh, is no stranger to the university.  Neither is he a stranger to sustainability, an interest he has explored for several decades, or as he quips “since before Al Gore […]


Solar energy helps power “The Barn”

The new campus student social space known as “The Barn,” became the first building on campus to feature solar electric PV cells on July 28. Like all new construction on campus, the Barn was designed to meet, at a minimum, LEED Certification standards. The […]


Welcome Center receives LEED Gold

The university’s elegant new Welcome Center received LEED Gold certification on July 14, 2011. The Welcome Center opened its doors for business on March 22. Construction on the building began in December 2009 and was completed in February of this year. The center’s […]


South Hall earns gold

South Hall, completed in August 2010, has been awarded the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification. With solar panels on the roof to heat water and touch screens in the hallways for monitoring energy usage, the residence […]


South Hall

South Hall received LEED Gold Certification in May 2011. South Hall is one of two building on campus that allows occupants to monitor energy and water usage through a Lucid Dashboard. See what residents see: check the weather, compare water, gas and electricity usage […]


Welcome Center

The new Welcome Center opened its doors on March 22, 2011. The building received LEED  Gold certification in July 2011. The Welcome Center is one of two building on campus that allows occupants to monitor energy and water usage through a Lucid Dashboard. See […]


LEED designed Welcome Center opens

The university’s elegant new Welcome Center officially opened its doors for business on March 22. Construction on the building began in December 2009 and was completed in February of this year. The design firm, Lambert Architecture + Interiors, designed the building to exceed the university’s […]


Diane Dailey Golf Learning Center receives LEED Gold Certification

The university’s first ever LEED-certified building came in a rather small package: that of the Diane Dailey Golf Learning Center. Though the building encompasses a much smaller area than either the LEED-designed South Hall or new Admissions Center, through careful design and collaboration, the team […]


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