Photo: Jonathan Hillyer
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
Atlanta, GA
Business Type
Academic building with classrooms, labs, auditorium, and community spaces
Size
42,500 square feet
Architect
Lord Aeck Sargent and The Miller Hull Partnership
Owner
Georgia Institute of Technology, Donor: The Kendeda Fund
Certifications
- Net-Zero Water
- Pursuing Beyond Net-Zero Energy
- Living Building
- Net-Zero Energy
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the first fully certified Living Buildings (along with Net Positive Energy and Net Positive Water) in a hot and humid climate zone.
Special Features
- The building produces 120% of the energy it uses onsite
- The building uses campus chilled water loop as its heat source in the winter via a heat recovery chiller
- Radiant flooring distributes heating and cooling efficiently
- 330 kW of rooftop photovoltaic panels create a net positive solar array
- Onsite energy storage
- Air curtains at doorways act as a barrier to outside air coming in
- Condenser water heat recovery
- Rainwater reclamation for potable uses
- Composting toilets