The Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia will transform education and research by setting a new benchmark as the world’s most sustainable academic lab building. The design’s innovative strategies — green roofs, living walls, water treatment system, photovoltaic cells, natural ventilation, daylight, double skin facades and a collaboration corridor — reinforce the spirit of founder Eugene Odum’s approach to ecosystem ecology by creating a living laboratory that will foster regenerative relationships between the student, researchers, visitors and the natural systems at work in the building and site.

 

The feasibility study completed for the Odum School of Ecology developed new understandings of how an intensive University Laboratory Building could potentially achieve the Living Building Challenge expectations.