ESa-designed Jack C. Massey Center at Belmont University receives a USGBC Tennessee (Quality of Life) Award
Belmont University – Jack C. Massey Center has been named a 2024 Local Market Leadership Award recipient by the U.S.Green Building Council (USGBC) Tennessee.
The Jack C. Massey Center project is one of four award recipients from Tennessee who are using green building and sustainable practices to improve quality of life for those around them. This year’s recipients will be recognized during a celebratory reception at a Building Transformation Forum on November 1 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
This six-story, LEED® Silver and Fitwel® One Star certified facility serves as Belmont’s dedicated welcome and admissions center, while also housing the Belmont Innovation Lab, the Data Collaborative, faculty offices, and computer science classrooms. It is the first Fitwel certified higher education project in Tennessee and the sixth in the U.S.
LEED is the most widely used and trusted green building rating system in the world with more than 100,00 certified projects worldwide. LEED buildings save money, consume less energy, use less water, use fewer resources and provide better indoor environmental quality than traditional buildings. And pursuing LEED and the strategies the rating system employs, facilitates better product and material choices in a building and helps to drive innovation.
2024 USGBC Tennessee Local Market Leadership Award recipients represent the pinnacle of green building leadership in the state. Nominated projects were reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges from the USGBC community with a variety of technical, market, and sector perspectives and expertise. Projects were judged based on their certification level under LEED or another GBCI system, goals, strategies, synergies, performance and significance or impact within their local market. Individual and organizational award winners were selected by USGBC Tennessee’s Market Leadership Advisory Board for their commitment to USGBC’s mission and impact in the state.
More information on USGBC’s Local Market Leadership program is available here.
