Hopkins Architects Selected to Design New FES Home

Hopkins Architects Selected to Design New FES Home
An award-winning London architecture firm has been selected from a pool of 24 companies worldwide to design the new $27 million "green" Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies building, which is scheduled for completion between spring and summer 2008.

Hopkins Architects -- whose co-founder Sir Michael Hopkins was knighted for his services to architecture in 1995 -- will plan the building, which will use self-sustaining energy sources, minimize air pollution and reuse its waste. Construction materials will be recycled, nontoxic and sustainably harvested. Three engineering firms -- Arup, Atelier Ten, and Connecticut-based Centerbrook Architects and Planners -- will also assist with design and construction.

Stephen Kellert, a social ecology professor and chair of the environment school's building committee, said Hopkins was chosen for its experience in creating designs that have minimal negative impact on the environment and promote human health.

A world-renowned British architect has been selected to design a new environmentally sustainable home for the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

"The new 'green' building will set a new standard for sustainable design, construction and operations at Yale and beyond," said Yale University President Rick Levin. "It will be a first-rate facility for a worl