Pratt’s New Green Building Featured on BusinessWeek Website
Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 @ 11:17 am
Pratt's new six-story, 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building was recently featured as a linked story on BusinessWeek's Business Exchange website. The building, named Myrtle Hall, is located between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street and houses the college's Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices.
Designed by the New York City architecture firm WASA/Studio A, the new building is expected to meet the United States Green Building Council standards for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification based on its eco-features that include exterior sun shades; a green roof that absorbs rainwater, reflects heat, and sequesters greenhouse gasses; and solar photo-voltaic panels that generate on-site electricity. It will be the first higher education building project in Brooklyn to receive any LEED certification and the first academic building to receive a LEED-gold certification in Brooklyn.
