Colleges, universities take the lead in building green

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Colleges, universities take the lead in building green

East L.A. College once struggled to find eco-fluent builders, but now the field is multiplying. One designer says sustainability targets the "triple bottom line" of planet, people and profit.

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 7, 2008

There's a green sheen settling over colleges and universities.

This spring, East Los Angeles College unveiled 5,952 solar panels that generate nearly half of the college's energy.

At Santa Clara University, one building has carpet tiles made of yarn and the entire floor is raised on 14-inch legs so that air circulating below can warm or cool classroom floors. A glass "solar chimney" aids ventilation.

At Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, the library is cooled by vertical perforated solar fins. A building at Stanford University is built partly of redwood salvaged from century-old wine vats.

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