LEED Facts »
| Certified June 2008 | |
| Silver for NC v2.2 | 35/69 |
| Sustainable Sites | 7/14 |
| Water Efficiency | 3/5 |
| Energy & Atmosphere | 3/17 |
| Materials & Resources | 6/13 |
| Indoor Environ. Quality | 12/15 |
| Innovation & Design | 4/5 |
Architect: Vision 3 Architects
Civil Engineer: Pare Corporation
Contractor: Maron Construction Co.
Food Service Consultant: Ricca Newmark Design
Landscape Architect: Carol r. Johnson Assoc.
Electrical Engineer: Gaskell Associates
Mechanical Engineer: Creative Environment Corp.
Structural Engineer: Odeh Engineers, Inc.
Program Manager: Gilbane Company
Project Size: 42,000 sq. ft.
Total Project Cost: $18,000,000
Cost per Square foot: $428
Project Background
The University of Rhode Island completed construction of the new Hope Commons Dining Hall, an $18 million, 42,500 square foot facility featuring a 718-seat dining hall, late night café, and retail market. Hope Commons is the first new dining hall on campus in 45 years and replaces the original hope dining hall which was built in 1957.
The Facility
In the new dining hall, food is prepared in full view of the customers at four strategically placed food venues, each with their own identity and theme. The dining area has an open market, restaurant feel to it, with fine detailing and a variety of seating options, including booths and bar counters. A 50-seat, private dining room with exterior views to the campus is located in the northeast corner. Hope Commons also includes “rhody market,” a second level, late night café. At ground level under “rhody market” is the “rhody mini mart,” which stocks convenience items, snacks, and quick grab-and-go foods for faculty, staff, students and visitors.
Strategies and Results
Hope Commons is a steel-framed structure with masonry veneer. rigid insulation in the veneer improves the thermal efficiency of the wall system. Building materials and products specified totaled 30% recycled content. Computers monitor the building’s mechanical systems from remote locations manned by the university’s facilities staff. hope has a state-of-the-art setup that makes it seem like a nontraditional dining hall. tile and carpeted floors, light emitting diode (LED) lights and Corian countertops are what makes hope Commons different from any of the other dining halls on campus.
• Non-roof heat island reduction: only 2% of the site is paved, a dramatic reduction from the LEED® maximum allowable requirement of 30%.
• Kitchen equipment performance: a large part of the overall building’s energy usage is dedicated to kitchen equipment. Selecting energy efficient equipment provided a 10% reduction in annual energy consumption over use of non-energy rated equipment.
• Recycled content: the LEED minimum requirement for recycled content in building construction materials is 10%. the materials used for Hope Commons contain more that 30% recycled content, over three times the lEEd minimum requirement.
• Local and regional materials: 76% of the materials used to build hope Commons are from within a 500 mile radius of the project, exceeding the LEED requirement of 20%.
About University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is the state’s principal public research facility with its main campus in Kingston, R.I. three other campuses are located throughout the state, including Providence’s Feinstein Campus, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich. URI has 14,546 undergraduates and 4,549 graduate students. It is a land grant, sea grant, and urban grant institution.