If Brenda Case Sheer gets her way, she will oversee the nation’s first attempt to renovate a large building into one that is so energy efficient, its carbon footprint disappears.
The University of Utah architectural school occupies the 48,000-square-foot eastern half of the 1970s Art and Architecture Center just south of Marriott Library. It was built at a time when energy was cheap and carbon emissions were of no concern, and it has never been renovated. University officials’ goal for a retrofit go far beyond replacing the single-pane windows and dated heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system: They want to cut the building’s energy use by up to 85 percent. Salt Lake Tribune
