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In The Center for the Environment, corporations and non-profits may rent an executive meeting room, featuring comfortable ergonomic seating for up to 12 attendees or a large space for up to 75 guests. Both are ideal for team meetings, board meetings, workshops, client presentations, and strategy sessions, and feature Zoom rooms, natural light, and modern acoustic ceiling panels. For more information, email conferences@catawba.edu.
Completed during the summer of 2001, Catawba's Center for the Environment is a model of green design. The $5.7 million, 21,000 square-foot center has classrooms and labs overlooking a 189-acre wetland preserve. The three-story center has walls of glass to take advantage of the sun's heating powers and photovoltaic cells to capture sunlight and produce electricity. A closed-loop, geoexchange system provides heating and cooling, shredded newspaper is used for insulation, bamboo is used in flooring, and beams are made of laminae from recycled timber.
The furnishings in the facility are also environmentally sound and include desktops made of stalks of wheat bonded with soy-based glue and table legs made from recycled cardboard.
RELATED LINKS:
Center for the Environment
Environmental Science and Studies