engineering and facilities
Sustainability & Recycling - Green Building
- First Award winning LEED Gold Certified building opened in 2011, certified in 2013: see below
- Energy Performance Contract: click here
- Geothermal heating/air in Anderson House: click here
- Construction & Demolition Waste Diversion & Recycling Guide: click here
B
IOEGINEERING BUILDING
MUSC Bioengineering Building Officially LEED Gold Certified
The Bioengineering Building located at 70 President Street was completed in 2012 and is now officially certified as the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold building on the MUSC campus.
Some of the most noticeable features which contributed to this certification and the resulting 21.5% energy cost savings are:
• Occupancy sensors
• Lighting controls and task lighting
• R20 Wall insulation
• High-reflectance R20 roof
• Double pane tinted R20 glass windows
• Window and building overhangs
• Exterior lighting (savings of 36.1%)
• Highly efficient HVAC system w heat recovery
Additional features are water saving fixtures as well as the built-in recycling centers on every floor.
The building was designed by Stevens & Wilkinson, Architect and Engineering/Goody Clancy, Design Architect/ and constructed by Brassfield & Gorrie, Contractor/Energy Ace, Commissioned by Seamon Whiteside, Landscape Architect.
The Bio-Engineering Building (BEB) is an important milestone in the development of our tri-fold mission, patient care, education and research, with a new focus on research interest rather than department. Joined by a walkway to the Drug Discovery and Basic Science Buildings, the Bio-Engineering building is part of the newly formed biomedical 'research cluster’. The primary purpose of the Clyburn Research Complex is to provide open and flexible laboratory spaces for researchers in molecular and cell biology, development biology, chemistry and biochemistry, environmental toxicology, and biomolecular engineering.