{"id":40176,"date":"2025-11-10T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40176"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:49:52","slug":"furman-receives-green-globes-for-residence-hall-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-receives-green-globes-for-residence-hall-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman receives Green Globes for residence hall renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman University has received two Green Globes for the renovation of South Housing residence hall, McGlothlin+Poteat. The Green Globes honor is a program of the Green Building Initiative, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable, healthy and resilient buildings through education, standards and certification programs.<\/p>\n

McGlothlin+Poteat, a hall that houses first-year students, joins Blackwell Hall<\/a> (formerly Lakeview Hall) and North Village Housing<\/a>, which received Green Globes in 2024 and 2023, respectively.<\/p>\n

The Green Globes-certified buildings add to the roster of eight LEED<\/a> (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified buildings on campus, including South Carolina\u2019s first building to earn the LEED badge, Herman M. Hipp Hall, built in 2003.<\/p>\n

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Laura Bain ’02, The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities.<\/p><\/div>\n

Furman\u2019s Laura Bain<\/a> ’02, associate director of sustainability assessment at The Shi Institute<\/a>, said the latest recognition from GBI speaks to the intentional way Furman addresses sustainability in the built environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe planning, construction, operation and maintenance of a building impacts both its occupants and the surrounding environment,\u201d Bain said.\u00a0\u201cAchieving a green building certification means we\u2019re keeping sustainable practices front of mind when we build and renovate structures on our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGlothlin+Poteat underwent major changes to the mechanical equipment, \u201cimproving the overall health of the building,\u201d said Ty Bowling, director of facilities maintenance. Installing efficient air handlers, heat boilers and water heaters were among the priorities for the renovation. Using all-LED lighting and water-saving toilets, sinks and showers are other examples of Earth-friendly practices, Bowling added.<\/p>\n

Not all construction projects on Furman\u2019s 950-acre campus will go through the assessment procedures for Green Globes or LEED, said Jeff Redderson, associate vice president of facilities and campus services, but the end game remains the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very excited Furman has received the Green Globes certification,\u201d Redderson said. \u201cOur goal is to apply these same principles and practices to all our building projects going forward even if they do not go through the same certification process.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Bain, the Green Globes credential underscores two priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an important example of how Furman aims to provide optimal living and learning spaces for students while upholding our commitment to sustainability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, Mackey Mitchell Architects and RMF Engineering worked alongside Furman University on the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McGlothlin+Poteat Hall earns two Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative. Furman’s Laura Bain ’02 says the honor demonstrates how Furman aims to provide optimal living and learning spaces for students while upholding its commitment to sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-alumni","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40190,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions\/40190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}