Last
fall, the Rice Children’s Campus (RCC) became the university’s first
building to earn certification under the Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, an internationally
recognized green standard for buildings. The RCC was also the first
child care center with infant care in Houston to earn LEED
certification.

Among those at the ceremony were, from left, John
Casbarian and Danny Samuels, both of Taft Architects, the design
architect for the RCC, and both faculty at the Rice School of
Architecture; Y. Ping Sun, university representative; and Richard
Johnson, director of sustainability at Rice. The RCC project team
comprised Joujou Zebdaoui, project manager in Facilities, Engineering
and Planning; Taft Architects; contractor CBIC Construction and
Development LLC; mechanical engineer and LEED consultant WSP Flack +
Kurtz; civil engineer Walter P. Moore and Associates; landscape
architect Land Effects; and structural engineer Matrix Structural Engineers.