Sustainability Accolades for Tutt Library

Tutt Library is racking up awards. The building is a Gold Award winner in "Building Design+Construction's" 35th Annual Reconstruction Awards program. The award places emphasis on the value of reconstruction, adaptive reuse, and historic preservation and the award announcement states, "in short, your project has won a very prestigious, hard-earned honor."

Tutt Library was also recognized in the Sustainable Campus Index published by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, citing the library as an important foundation for CC reaching its goal of carbon neutrality by 2020.

The Sustainable Campus Index is a self-reporting system to highlight colleges' and universities' sustainability efforts. The newly renovated Library was highlighted in the "Buildings" section of the report, saying the library is a "major contributor to the college's goal of carbon neutrality by 2020."

(reposted from Digest and Around the Block)

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