2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

The Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Merced, Calif. Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Associate Architects: Fernau & Hartman

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

The Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Merced, Calif. Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Associate Architects: Fernau & Hartman

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

UC Merced Central Plant, Merced, Calif. Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

UC Merced Science & Engineering Building, Merced, Calif. Architect: EHDD San Francisco

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

The Social Sciences and Management building, Merced, Calif. Architect: Studios Archiecture

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

Library and Information Technology Center, Merced, Calif. Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

Dining Facility, Merced, Calif.

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

UC Merced’s 1-megawatt solar array produces half of the campus’s electricity when the sun is shining. The campus goal is to be net-zero energy, zero waste and net-zero emissions by 2020.

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

Social Sciences and Management Building, Merced, Calif.

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

The campus plan envisions a 25,000-student car-free campus, with 6.25 million square feet of LEED Gold research and administrative space, housing for 12,500, and an adjacent University Community providing 5,000 jobs within walking distance to the Academic Core.

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

Set to open in 2014, the LEED Platinum–targeted Science and Engineering 2 features research and instructional labs and a solar-paneled, shaded promontory that can serve as a event venue.

2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project recipient: University of California, Merced

Set to open in 2014, the LEED Platinum targeted Science and Engineering 2 features research and instructional labs and a solar paneled shaded promontory that can serve as a event venue.

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