Angelos Law Center Set to be First LEED Platinum Law School Building in U.S.
Posted February 15, 2012
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Construction has progressed on the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, which is on track to be the first completely LEED Platinum-certified law school building in the United States. The asset remains on schedule for a spring 2013 completion date.
Designed by Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart, Germany and Boston, Mass., in partnership with Baltimore's Ayers/Saint/Gross, the 190,000-square-foot building will unite classrooms, faculty offices, administrative space, clinics and the law library under a single roof for the first time in UB's history.
With LEED Platinum certification in mind, the building will incorporate a number of remarkable features, including a rainwater-harvesting system that will capture and repurpose runoff and reduce overall water use; a green roof, terraces and a sunken garden that incorporate native and adapted plants; and nonemergency lights that automatically shut off after business hours.
The law center will contain smart classrooms; nearly 30 large- and small-group study spaces; a seven-floor, highly digital library; a 300-seat moot courtroom; a communal atrium; two coffee shops; four terraces; and private event space.
Additional green building features will include:
· A heating and cooling system that relies upon active-slab technology
· All-LED energy-efficient lighting
· A glass facade with exterior windows in 95-percent of regularly occupied spaces and solar shading devices for individual temperature control.
"The Angelos Law Center will provide interior spaces that connect people to the cycles of nature-light, air and water-and to other people in the building through ways that are not possible in our current space," said University of Baltimore President Robert Bogomolny.
The current UB law facility opened in 1982; since that time, student enrollment has increased by more than 20-percent.
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