Oakes Hall
High Performance
The Oakes Hall Classroom Building is the third in a series of projects designed by TruexCullins for Vermont Law School, a school nationally recognized for its environmental law program. The key requirements of the building were efficiency, economy and environmental sustainability.
Innovative green features include the use of healthy, recycled, and non-toxic materials, and the installation of state-of-the-art composting toilets. An energy recovery unit controls humidity and recovers approximately 80% of the heat in the exhaust air and transfers it to the incoming fresh air stream.
With all of these innovations, the Oakes Hall Classroom Building is one of the best performing academic buildings of its type in the country, despite its completion prior to the USGBC’s implementation of the LEED rating system.
Recognition
Excellence in Sustainable Construction Design Award, Quality Building Council of Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, 2000
Excellence Certificate of Merit, ACEC/VT Engineering
Award for Exceptional Leadership & Design, Boston Society of Architects’ Committee on the Environment Green Building, 2000
Award Placed 2nd in the Category of Institutional Buildings – New, ASHRAE Technology, 2000
Vermont Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence in Pollution Prevention, 1999