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Knight Management Center is 2010 Green Project of the Year

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal recently named the Knight Management Center its 2010 Green Project of the Year. Housing Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), the center will earn LEED Platinum certification by implementing new energy-conserving technologies.

“[Our efforts] had a lot to do with being a leader and demonstrating what it means to be green,” said Knight Management Center Program Director Kathleen Kavanaugh.

The Center has many features that will reduce energy use 46% over a typical building of similar size, including solar panels that will provide 12.5 percent of the complex’s electric power. Other measures include a water collection and conservation system that reduces the use of potable water by 80%. Gutters across the roof of the complex collect rainwater and store it in a 75,000-gallon holding tank underground for use in plant irrigation and toilet water.

Fifty percent of the 12-acre site has been preserved for open space and will be landscaped with drought-tolerant plants and more than 60 trees preserved or transplanted from the original previous site.

The Knight Management Center will open the spring of 2011.