Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:44:51 PM
The University of San Diego (USD) and AMSOLAR Corp. said, on Nov. 18, that they had signed an agreement to install a 1.23-megawatt distributed solar array across nine buildings on USD’s campus.
The announcement was made outside the university’s new Student Life Pavilion, a four-story, 50,000-square-foot “green” building that is anticipated to receive LEED Gold certification (under the U.S. Green Building Council’s sustainability gauge) for its environmentally-friendly features, which include heat island reduction, low environmental impact, water use reduction, energy efficiency, air quality, and recycling and “green” cleaning options...