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1. Buildings and Venues

   1. Academic

      1. Schools

         1. Lyle School of Engineering

            1. J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building

               J Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building
               3101 Dyer Street

               • Part of Lyle School of Engineering quad, among the most technologically advanced on any college campus. 
               • Lyle School graduates are leaders and creative thinkers prepared to tackle real-world problems.
               • Home to the Departments of Environmental and Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
               • For lactation facility information, contact Todd L Wright
                 at 214-768-1459 or twright@lyle.smu.edu.

               The building was designed and constructed with the goal of achieving LEED Gold.  Not only was the facility the first LEED building completed on the SMU main campus, it was the first LEED Gold building on a campus in the State of Texas. The project achieved 42 points under LEED NC 2.2.

               The project reached substantial completion on July 11, 2006.

               Originally, the team sought basic certification. However, at the urging of Dean Geoffrey Orsak, it was realized that with careful programming, planning, and design, it was possible to go for a "Gold" level rating.

               The project features many "non-visible" energy and environmental benefits such as the use of electricity by a renewable energy source, utilization of non-potable water to irrigate landscaping, a construction program that used local and regional products and building materials such as carpet, adhesives, paints, and wood by-products that contained low emitting VOC's.