LSA Building

Energy Consumption1

Did you know…

The new addition to this building is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold and is home to the Dean’s office.

Operations2

  • Triple pane glass
  • Occupancy sensing HVAC and lighting
  • Daylighting strategies and LED lights
  • Landscaping that contains native and drought-tolerant plants
  • Low-flow water fixtures
  • Low VOC paints
  • Locally sourced building materials (within 500 miles of the project site) with 10% of the total building material made of recycled content
  • Underground infiltration pipe system to collect runoff from the roof
  • 52% of the onsite generated waste was diverted from the landfill

Research3

  1. FY23 building energy consumption information from https://ocs.umich.edu/resources/sustainability-data/individual-building/ ↩︎
  2. Building operations information from https://umaec.umich.edu/ProjectSustainability/sustainabilityP00011569.pdf ↩︎
  3. Research information from https://graham.umich.edu/experts ↩︎