LEED Certification
Clemson aims to achieve a LEED Silver rating for all newly constructed buildings and large renovations. LEED is a certifying system designed for rating new and existing commercial, institutional, and multi-family residential buildings. It contains prerequisites and credits in five categories: sustainable site planning, improving energy efficiency, conserving materials and resources, embracing indoor environmental quality and safeguarding water.
The University has a number of projects that aim to meet varying degrees of LEED certification. Below are brief descriptions of each, along with links to more in-depth information regarding specific projects.
Advanced Materials Research Lab
Completed in August 2004, the AMRL was the first LEED-certified public building in South Carolina. The project is located in the Clemson Research Park and is an 111,000 square foot building housing Clemson's Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET). The surrounding area of the building includes more than 20 acres of maintained open/green space. The building also consists of recycled construction materials including ceiling tiles and structural steel. Several other sustainable techniques were used in the project.
Baruch Institute
This project includes the construction of a new state of the art
office/classroom building for natural resources research at Hobcaw
Barony and the renovation of the existing facility. The renovation
phase of the project will include improvements to the existing
structure including the two laboratories. This renovation will
accommodate two new researchers and several additional graduate
students and doctorial candidates.
Fraternity Quad
The Fraternity Quad maintains the rich architectural traditions of Clemson while embracing a green building commitment. Originally built as barracks in 1935, the quad dormitories were later designed for some of Clemson's fraternities. After two years of renovations, the quad reopened and achieved LEED-certification at the Silver level. To see more on how this proejct obtained LEED certification, please visit the Fraternity Quad project page.
Graduate Engineering Center
This project consists of approximately 90,000 square feet of office and lab space housing the graduate program in automotive engineering. It is located on the CU-ICAR campus. The project achieves LEED Silver Certification. LEED Project information
ICAR Parking Structure / Office
The center is a model for sustainable, economic development that minimizes environmental impact and that seeks to restore and balance the environmental resources of the site. Several sustainability approaches are used and planned for this project, and it has achieved LEED Gold certification. These approaches can be found at the ICAR project page.
Packaging Science Building
This project includes approximately 28,000 square feet of space housing components of the Packaging Science and Graphic Communications departments. The building has three levels and is located immediately south of the Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Center. The facility houses studios, labs and offices that will regularly serve up to 500 students every year. LEED information on this project.
Rowing Facility
A 10,000 square foot rowing facility was constructed on East Bank with a workout area, athletic training room, and offices and meeting areas. This new facility, the on-campus training center, Lake Hartwell and the racecourse are major draws for recruits.
Sandhill Conference Center
The Sandhill master plan represents an evolutionary step for the Extention movement, which helped transform agriculture in South Carolina over the last century. By engaging the university, the global research community and the public in a worthy cause - creating a better South Carolina through education, interdisciplinary collaboration, stewardship and communication - Sandhill will promote sustainability as a basic value, ethic and strategy, with relevant applications for responsible economic and community growth.