Caltech officials and Wonderful Company owners and philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick have broken ground on the Resnick Sustainability Center (RSC), an environmental sustainability project, in Caltech campus, California, US.
The 79,500 ft2 project has received a funding pledge of $750m from the Resnicks to Caltech.
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Caltech claimed that this funding commitment is the largest in the institute’s history and among the largest ever for an environmental sustainability research.
Upon its completion in 2024, the Resnick Sustainability Center will throw open new opportunities in sustainability in the areas of research, education, and societal impact.
Wonderful Company chairman and president Stewart Resnick said: “Caltech has always been a place where we humans turn in moments of extreme vulnerability for reassurance when the ground moves under our feet—to help us comprehend terrible scenes of fire and drought here in the west. We put our faith and the entirety of our support into the brilliant minds at Caltech.
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“The achievements that will emerge from this sustainability institute, housed in what will be this world-class center, will help make our world safer, more healthy, more sustainable, and a better home for generations to come. Lynda and I and every one of our colleagues at the Wonderful Company are proud to call Caltech partners.”
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By GlobalDataSince its establishment on the campus in 2009, Resnick Sustainability Institute (RSI) has brought together scientists and engineers from across Caltech’s six academic divisions and from JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, to find solutions to address challenges in water, energy, food, and waste.
Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign has designed the future Resnick Sustainability Center.
The new RSC will feature a range of sustainable materials and structures, to secure LEED Platinum certification.
Rather than accommodating the offices and labs of individual faculty members, the new building will offer specific equipment, space that will be accessible to research groups and innovators across Caltech.
Devoted research amenities and instrumentation have also been designed to back the central initiatives of RSI, which is ‘Sunlight to Everything, Climate Science, Ecology and Biosphere Engineering, and Water Resources’.
The new building will replace the demolished Clifford S. and Ruth A. Mead Memorial Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory, which served as home to Caltech’s undergraduate chemistry labs for four decades.
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Image: The 79,500 ft2 project has received a funding pledge of $750m. Credit: California Institute of Technology
