Young Harris College Building Recognized

Young Harris College’s Rollins Campus Center has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification by the Green Building Certification Institute, making it the first building on the YHC campus to achieve gold certified status and the fifth LEED-certified facility on the YHC campus.

The $41 million, 121,000-square-foot Rollins Campus Center opened in October 2014. It houses four distinct areas: a 60,000-square-foot, multi-purpose student center; the 40,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Zell and Shirley Miller Library; 500-plus seat Grace Rollins Dining Hall; and the 350-seat, versatile Charles Suber Banquet Hall.

YHC has a history of sustainable building initiatives including using early geothermal systems to heat and cool a number of its residence halls—which made adding the campus center to its geothermal portfolio a welcome choice.