The Harry and Susan Seigle Hall of the Washington University in St Louis has received LEED certification from the US Green Building Council (USGBC). It is the fourth LEED-certified building on the Danforth Campus, other LEED-certified buildings being the Village East student apartment building, Danforth University Center, and Earth and Planetary Sciences building.
The green features of the building includes low-flow bathroom fixtures that reduce water usage by 41%, efficient heating, cooling and ventilation systems that reduce energy consumption by 22%, and building materials that were locally harvested and manufactured.
Seigle Hall houses teaching, office and meeting spaces for the School of Law and the departments of economics, education and political science, all in arts and sciences. It also is home to the Center for Applied Statistics; Center for Dynamic Economics; Center for Empirical Research in the Law; Center for Interdisciplinary Studies; Center for New Institutional Social Sciences; Center in Political Economy; Center on Urban Research and Public Policy; Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy; and Whitney R Harris World Law Institute.
