Penrose Hall is a renovation project executed at the American University of Beirut and delivered in 2019. Penrose Hall has been converted into a Green Building with LEED Gold certificate that has various green features from the indoor environment quality to its efficiently used materials and resources.
It’s important to highlight that 83.39% of the regularly occupied areas within the building have access to quality view, and occupants in individual and shared space have access to interior lighting, and thermal comfort controls, which highlights the building’s indoor environmental quality. This sustainable site consists of reflective materials to reduce heat island effect, and exterior lighting designs to avoid light trespass and to reduce uplights; materials and resources as well, such as furniture items in public areas, are selected to be compliant with furniture sustainability standards
