As I profiled yesterday, the George Washington University is currently trying to adopt new plans to pursue green building in some of their future construction projects. However, something I discovered today is helping to explain this new policy.
The Sustainable Endowment Institute gave GW a D+ letter grade, down from last years C-. The rating corresponds to eight categories. Five are focused on campus environmental initiatives, and three on school endowment policies. The brand new GW University President Stephen Knapp was very disappointed in the drop in score and made it known publicly that he intended to rectify the situation. Three days later we learned of the universities intentions to build the newest dorm (which broke ground this week) and an upcoming multi-use development project to LEED standards.
As I said yesterday, I plan to continue following this development as it happens around me, so stay tuned.
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