Golisano Building Certified Leed Platinum

[background talking] We'd like to congratulate you on this wonderful building and this wonderful achievement. Thank-you very much. Nasr>> To receive the LEED Platinum certification for the building, they have to collect data for an entire year to validate all the design concepts that we implemented in the building. So to actually receive it... and receive it by a good margin... is very exciting. Moore>> For RIT it's a really special building LEED Platinum is an amazing accomplishment for a building this size and its function... It is a an amazing accomplishment. I don't think we'll see a building this large and with this kind of function be LEED Platinum for a while. Williams>> Well, it's in the one percent of all the LEED rated buildings throughout the country - so it's one the highest-performing buildings that has been built to date. We actually produce, with the fuel cell and that photovoltaic panels on the roof, about two-and-a-half times the energy consumption in the building. So, it that puts back energy into the campus grid for utilization in other buildings here on campus. Nasr>> You know that the significance of this is that we, as an Institute for sustainability, that promoting green technologies - effective economical technologies - that address many of the challenges that we face from building to energy to transportation... it is really exciting to be in a state of the art building. In a building that actually acts as a demonstration facility, acts as a living laboratory, where the students can actually see things in action, can see how our onsite energy generation is working. It's an extension of our labs, so it's very economical in that fashion. And also the building is designed in a way that allows us to actually incorporate any new technology along the way to test and validate and actually to expand our research programs in new areas.