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12/07/07
Pomona College Wins Claremont's First Gold Award for Green-friendly Buildings |
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Pomona College has won gold certification from the U.S.
Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) Program for the design and
construction of its Lincoln and Edmunds Buildings. Pomona
College earned its first LEED certification, a silver, for
the Richard C. Seaver Biology Building which opened in 2005.
For Pomona College President David Oxtoby, “The gold award
is fantastic. It’s wonderful recognition of Pomona’s
commitment to be better citizens and to do what we can to
reduce Pomona’s environmental footprint.”
The adjacent Lincoln and Edmunds Buildings span a combined
92,000 square feet at the northern end of campus and opened
in January 2007. Their green-friendly features include: a
photovoltaic system, which can provide up to 22.4% of the
building’s power; operable windows; waterless urinals; high
efficiency lighting; and efficient irrigation for
landscaping. Construction involved the elimination of
chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) and halon refrigerants as well
as the use of recycled materials and rapidly renewable
materials, such as bamboo flooring used in parts of the
buildings.
The buildings, which cost $40 million, were designed by the
firm DMJM Design in Los Angeles and built by Hathaway
Dinwiddie. They provide innovative research space and
teaching facilities for Computer Science, Environmental
Analysis, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Geology,
Neuroscience, Psychology, and three intercollegiate
departments—Asian American Studies, Black Studies and
Chicano/a Studies. The clustering of disciplines related to
the science of the mind is intended to create synergies and
facilitate collaboration.
Among the building’s more unique features are a Saliva Room
for collecting samples, floor-to-ceiling dry-erase wall
boards in the Computer Science area, an audiometric testing
room, an Eye-Tracker Lab, and the vibrant mural “The
Struggle for a Home” by Paul Botello located in the
Intercollegiate Department of Chicano/a Studies. The
buildings’ Draper Courtyard is home to the Skyspace
“Dividing the Light,” by internationally renowned artist
James Turrell, who works in the perceptual effects of light
and space and is a 1965 graduate of Pomona.
Lillian Lincoln Howell ’43, of Hillsborough, Calif., made
the Lincoln and Edmunds Buildings possible through a $10
million gift, the largest single gift from a living donor
ever received by the College. The naming of the Lincoln
Building honors Howell’s family, including her father, John
C. Lincoln, who founded the Lincoln Electric Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, and her son, Lincoln C. Howell. The Edmunds
Building is named in honor of Charles K. Edmunds, the fifth
president of Pomona College, to whom Howell has said she
owes a special debt of gratitude for his support during her
first years at Pomona. |
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