Project Detail
Innovation Park
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Project Location:
The Park is located on 12 acres of land at the south end of the Notre Dame campus.
Project Description:
Innovation Park has space available for clients with needs across a range of business development stages, from incubation to acceleration. The Park will also have space and resources for established companies with intrapraneurial venturing needs. This first building, to be completed by fall 2009, will be a three-story, 54,000 square foot structure that will include collaborative areas, conference rooms, administrative offices, incubation facilities, and lab space. The building will be seeking LEED Certification – Silver.
Tenants will enjoy:
- Build-to-suit office suites
- Custom laboratories for technology platform development and pilot plant
- Direct access to dark fiber broadband connectivity via the Metronet
- Availability of a number of Notre Dame campus services, including the Office of Technology Transfer and the University’s world-class libraries
Project Status:
Since formally opening in October 2009 the Park is continuing to attract clients, and to build space to suit their specific needs. For additional information about the Park you are encouraged to visit their web site.
http://www.innovationparknd.com/
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Stinson-Remick Hall receives LEED Gold Certification!
After years of planning and two years of construction, Stinson-Remick Hall received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The building was completed at the end of 2009 and opened for classes in January 2010. The formal dedication and blessing of the building took place on September 3, 2010. Several of the items that allowed the building to achieve LEED Gold Certification are as follows:
- Water saving plumbing fixtures will save 130,850 gallons of water per year
- Reused a previous building site so green space was preserved; the original building was completely recycled
- Energy recovery system installed on the lab exhaust system will save about $65,724 per year and will provide a payback in 7.5 years
- Specified low VOC (volatile organic compound) materials for most interior materials, carpet, glues, sealants, paints, etc.
- Installed white roof membrane to reduce heating load on the building in the summer months
- Native landscape & drip irrigation system saves 51% of normal water usage (165,519 gallons in July)
- The building has showers to promote bicycle commuting
- There are over 76 electrical metering points tracking the building's electrical usage
- Overall building energy reduction features:
- -reclaiming the heat from the exhaust air and using it to heat incoming outside air
- -using the cold lab make-up incoming air in winter to provide cooling to the clean rooms
- -using occupancy control to turn off lights and reduce air flow when the space is unoccupied
- -lighting design reduction of 14%
- 95.76 % of the materials by weight (7,100 tons) that left the jobsite as construction waste recycled
- Many of the building materials used were manufactured within 500 miles of the job site (e.g. clay pavers, rebar for the concrete structure, brick, all the structural steel, all the concrete (approximately 8,000 cubic yards)
- Large extent of materials originated from recycled content (e.g. reinforcing steel for the masonry walls consists of 85 % post consumer and 15 % pre-consumer content)
- The building was flushed with filtered outside air after construction prior to occupancy to ensure that all off-gassing of materials had been cleaned from the building prior to occupancy (approximately 2.0 billion cubic feet of air were flushed through the building)
To view further details and pictures, please click Stinson-Remick.
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