Penn State Building Goes Green

Penn State, State College, Pa., has announced that one of its new buildings, the Stuckeman Family Building, has been recognized as a green building by achieving the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, according to a report in the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.).

The building is part of Penn State’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and is among the first university buildings in the country to achieve gold level LEED certification, according to the report.

Some of the green construction features used by the Stuckeman building include a parking lot designed to slow water runoff and energy-saving sensor lights that turn off when no one is in the area.

The university hopes to continue a commitment to sustainable building with all its future construction projects, Paul Ruskin, Office of Physical Plant spokesman, tells the Centre Daily Times.