{"id":207259,"date":"2019-05-29T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/?p=207259"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:46:16","slug":"university-facilities-attend-the-usgbc-nj-awards-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/2019\/05\/29\/university-facilities-attend-the-usgbc-nj-awards-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"University Facilities Attend the USGBC-NJ Awards Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/about-the-college\/cels\/\">Center for Environmental and Life Sciences<\/a> (CELS) was awarded an honorable mention in the category Sustainable Schools on May 22, 2019 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/usgbcnj.org\/\">USGBC-NJ<\/a> Awards Gala. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=cunhaf\">Frank Cunha, III<\/a>, Montclair State&#8217;s Director of Architectural Services, accepted the award on behalf of the University.<\/p>\n<p>CELS creates a transdisciplinary, collaborative environment for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/\">College of Science &amp; Mathematics<\/a>. The building was conceived as a 21st Century research facility that will drive scientific discovery &amp; technological innovation in the areas of pharmaceutical life sciences &amp; and environmental management\/sustainability. Scientists and non-scientists from different disciplines will be able to engage in cooperative research, aspire to a mutual learning process, and conduct transdisciplinary research in a flexible, sustainable environment. The research is intended to be a hybridized form of learning, traditional research, and application with a focus on the sustainable development of these disciplines. The building itself is a teaching tool, achieving an innovation credit for developing an educational program around the sustainable features of the building. The sustainability inherent in Montclair\u2019s campus helped propel this project to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgbc.org\/projects\/montclair-state-university-cels\">LEED Gold certification<\/a>, exceeding the Silver level originally anticipated. CELS achieved high performance in Water Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality while also improving energy performance and use of sustainable materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State University&#8217;s Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS) was awarded an honorable mention in the category Sustainable Schools on May 22, 2019 at the USGBC-NJ Awards Gala. Frank Cunha, III, Montclair State&#8217;s Director of Architectural Services, accepted the award on behalf of the University. CELS creates a transdisciplinary, collaborative environment for the College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":207257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-167_construction-news","category-161_facilities-staff-news-events","category-25_facilities","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207263,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207259\/revisions\/207263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}