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ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A group of on-campus students at Minnesota s largest private university have new bragging rights: They can truly say they live in one of the country s greenest residence halls.
A view of the newly constructed Tommie East Residence Hall on the St. Paul campus during golden hour on a beautiful summer evening, as seen on August 4, 2020. (Liam James Doyle/University of St. Thomas)
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded its highest environmental rating – the LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification – to the University of St. Thomas Tommie East Residence Hall. The building is the first in the Midwest to certify platinum under the LEED v4 new construction rating system in its category, the sixth in the U.S. and seventh in the world. It marks another step in the university s larger plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.