Dive summary:
- As demanding as a winemaster, the University of California Davis achieved LEED Platinum ststus for its Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery (JSWB) and is shooting for Net Zero Energy Building Certification from the Living Building Challenge.
- The facility, which is part of the agriculturally oriented Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science complex on the campus has an R-76 roof and R-59.5 walls enclosing its one-story, 8,500-square-foot space.
- The systems in the building, built largely with a pledge from the late Jess Jackson, proprietor of Kendall-Jackson wines, capture carbon dioxide from fermentation, filter and recirculate water and can accommodate 272 more solar panels (it has 16 now) to power an adjacent brewery.
From the article:
By using completely passive techniques, JSWB, in fact, eliminates all active heating and cooling equipment. ...