RIT's platinum building
by
Jeremy Moule
on
March 26, 2014 at 2:59PM
The building's solar cells, vertical-axis wind turbines (they look less like fans and more like food processor blades), and fuel cells generate so much electricity that often its needs are met and there's enough power left over for other campus buildings, said Nabil Nasr, sustainability institute director. And there are a slew of other features, some as mundane as low-flow water fixtures, but some as clever as an elevator that generates electricity on its descent.