C+S April 2021 Vol. 7 Issue 4 (web)

Breaking Ground in Sustainability By Luke Carothers

California State University –Long Beach (CSULB) is currently well on their way to achieving their goal of a Net Zero campus by 2030. The University has recently announced plans to construct their first student housing building in over forty years. To ensure the new student hous- ing project was able to further their sustainability goals, the administra- tion turned to McCarthy Building Companies to help. While McCarthy Building Companies served as the GC for the proj- ect, Gensler served as the architect, and Glumac served as the criteria engineer. The plan for the new student housing project is to create two

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