Sustainability at Stanford

March 6th, 2008 Alex

Yahoo! founder, Jerry Yang and his wife Akiko Yamazaki (Stanford alum) have contributed $50 million towards the construction of a new science building for environment and sustainability. The building will be known as Y2E2 or Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building. The 166,000 square ft building will be made with recycled steel and other green materials and the building will use 56% less energy and 90% less water than another building with a comparable size. The building will also draw in cool air during the summer and insulate the interior from the cold during winters. The exterior walls have windows that open and close automatically using heat sensors to monitor the temperature insdie the building. It will also take advantage of natural lighting with light collecting spaces called atrias, and light shelf panels that open horizontally to catch sunlight but shade heat from the sun. 

In addtion, Jerry Yang and his wife also donated $5 million to a new Learning and Knowledge Center for the School of Medicine and another $20 million for future projects at Stanford. There is never too much news about what Yahoo does for the environment so I can say now that Jerry donated a sh!#load of money to build Stanford’s new ecofriendly environmental building.

Read more about it at Palo Alto Online

Entry Filed under: Architecture,Environment,Green Tech