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Can Energy-Producing Buildings Work in Swampy South? Atlanta Is Trying

Source: The Wall Street Journal

8-7-2019 | News

A new Georgia Tech building designed to produce more energy than it consumes will pit the latest energy-saving technology against Atlanta’s humidity.

By Keiko Morris

A two-story Atlanta building designed to produce more energy than it consumes is poised to open in early fall, a crucial test case of whether a large-scale environmentally-advanced project can achieve its goals in the heat and humidity of the Southeast.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and its partner the Kendeda Fund, a private grant foundation, are finishing up a 37,000 square-foot campus building. The building, which will have classrooms and teaching labs, was designed to be certified as a so-called “living building,”…

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