Annotation #3: Hassayampa Academic Village

[Hassayampa Academic Village. Source: GreenBuilding Consulting]

Hassayampa Academic Village is a co-ed freshmen community with many different residence halls. Many different students from many different majors can call this place a home, and these include the students from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the W.P. Carey School of Business, the University Explorers, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Hassayampa Academic Village has done its part to 'go green' in several ways. Hassayampa's buildings were built to have reflective roofs to keep the indoors cooler in order to reduce the excessive use of air conditioning. Their irrigation has a low-flowing system to reduce the use of water and wasting of it. This system has reduced water use by forty percent. There are large windows in each room starting form the floor and going up until the ceiling to create natural light in the room rather than using electricity to light up the room. Lastly, Hassayampa Academic Village used over fifty percent of recyclable construction, so that the construction's waste could be reused. And because of all these 'green' features at Hassayampa, it received a Silver rating on the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ratings. The fact that Hassayampa has all of this 'green' features is pretty remarkable. Most of the dorms at universities are older and do not have all of the great features that Hassayampa has.