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A Laborato
Laboratory as
Breathtaking as the Sea
M
ore than 14,000 buildings have
been certified though the U.S.
Green Building Council’s four-
tiered LEED scale since the pro-
gram was launched, but only
about two percent worldwide have achieved LEED
Platinum, the highest certification.
“It is extremely difficult to achieve LEED Plat-
inum status on a laboratory building and the
MESOM Laboratory – the Marine Ecosystem
Sensing, Observation and Modeling Laboratory at
the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps
Institution of Oceanography – is one of the few in
the country to earn this rating,” said William Joel
King, assistant vice chancellor and campus archi-
tect for Facilities Design and Construction at UC
San Diego.
The university and its contractors concentrated
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Laboratory
achieves LEED Platinum certification
using FSC-certified Cumaru
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUCE DAMONTE
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