Indiana University's Simon Hall creates an environment for current and future research in a setting that maintains one of the strongest architectural heritages in academia.
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, is considered one of the most beautiful college campuses in the nation, with its abundance of flowering plants and trees and cool Indiana limestone buildings. A 20-acre area in the southwest corner of this campus, known as the Old Crescent, is now also home to R&D Magazine's 2008 Laboratory of the Year High Honors winner-Simon Hall.
Built around a vision of sustainability, NREL's environmentally sound, high-performance Science & Technology Facility will be used to enhance the visibility of renewable technologies.
The Science & Technology Facility at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colo., was designed to accelerate development and commercialization of promising new renewable energy sources. It is a space that stimulates communication between its myriad scientists as they try to resolve complex R&D issues confronting the next generation of solar technologies. It does this in a facility that can be easily reconfigured to meet changing research requirements.
