Sangren Hall building facts • Home of the College of Education and Human Development and the Department of Sociology • Four floors, 230,000 square feet • 50 instructional rooms and 2,255 instructional seats • Large grants and research center, clinical rooms and teaching labs • Education library with five meeting rooms, 36-seat computer/teaching lab, plus a quiet study room • Just like the original building, the ashes of WMU’s second president, Paul V. Sangren, and his wife, Flossie, are interred in the building.
Sustainability Sangren Style • Estimated annual energy savings of $345,000 • Green roofing of a lower-tier roof and entry canopy on south side of building • Water-efficient plumbing features • Daylight harvesting • Solar-shading devices • Sustainable wood products • Use of salvaged granite for paving • Storm-water management system that includes porous asphalt, gravel drainage strips, landscape swales and underground retention basins, water-efficient landscape plantings and irrigation • Preferred parking for fuel-efficient vehicles
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