Regents Hall earns prestigious Xcel Energy award

St. Olaf College's Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences has received Xcel Energy's Best-Integrated Design award from the company's Energy Design Assistance Program. The competition evaluated more than 100 projects completed between 2006 and 2008. The award was presented during a ceremony in Minneapolis Jan. 12.

Regents Hall received the award -- accepted by representatives from builder Oscar J. Boldt Construction and the architectural and engineering firm Holabird and Root -- for several reasons. Perhaps most importantly, the building team involved Xcel early in the design process, which helped create ideal orientation and envelope design (the separation between interior and exterior environments), and maximized the effects of "daylight harvesting." Xcel awarded the college $540,000 in cash incentives intended to fund the features that resulted in six gigawatt-hours of savings (along with significant natural gas savings).

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