Purdue creating center for high-performance buildings at Herrick Labs

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By Purdue University

January 11, 2009

Purdue University will create a $23.5 million Center for High Performance Buildings to design systems for future structures that are more environmentally and user friendly, energy efficient, and safe.

Half of the project's cost is funded by the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, with NIST providing $11.75 million and the other half coming largely from private donors.

NIST announced the Purdue grant as part of more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization.

With ultimate research targets ranging from offshore wind power and coral reef ecology to quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year.

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