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Article: Re-imaging the campus: the Student Recreation Center is the first major sustainable facility at Sonoma State University.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Sonoma State University, which opened its Rohnert Park, Calif., campus in Sonoma County in 1961, embarked on a sustainability program in 1998. After completing four projects, it now has its first major sustainable facility: a two-story, 53,000-square-foot Student Recreation Center completed in July 2004.
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The university wanted a new state-of-the-art Student Recreation Center that would also serve as a comfortable campus community center for all students. It wanted to use this building to begin "re-imaging" the campus of mostly nondescript 1960s concrete buildings using natural building materials that better reflect the rural ...