NEWS RELEASE

Alumnus completes $11 million drive for Purdue industry-oriented laboratory

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University announced Monday (Sept. 15) a $2 million gift from mechanical engineering alumnus Gerald D. Hines, completing a drive to raise $11 million for a project to expand the university's Ray W. Herrick Laboratories.

The labs - administered by the School of Mechanical Engineering - are a hub of industry-oriented research in areas ranging from advanced automotive technologies to "smart" buildings..................................

...............The new facility will include the Gerald D. Hines Sustainable Buildings Technology Laboratory, which will focus on new building technologies and their impact on human behavior and productivity, said E. Daniel Hirleman, professor and William E. and Florence E. Perry head of the School of Mechanical Engineering.

The lab will be designed to be LEED certified, an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the second such facility on campus after the Roger B. Gatewood Wing of the Mechanical Engineering Building, which is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2011. The certification was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable building design and construction

Good stuff!

Bruce