Hagle Hall
LEED Project Summary
Marc and Sharon Hagle Hall houses Purdue Bands & Orchestras. Completed in 2022, Hagle Hall is a 37,500-square-foot, four-story building constructed on a half-acre site. The building contains rehearsal and practice rooms, faculty studios, conference space, administration offices, collaboration areas and other support spaces.
Hagle Hall has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification. This system provides a framework for healthy, highly-efficient and cost-saving buildings, which directly contributes to progress towards the Physical Facilities Sustainability Master Plan goals.
Hagle Hall Floor Plans with LEED Features
Key Sustainable Design Features
Learn more about many of the key sustainable design features that support the building’s LEED certification below.
Sustainable Site
The LEED rating system encourages projects to be located on sites that respect the relationship between buildings, infrastructure and ecosystems. Located near public transportation stops in a walkable community, Hagle Hall’s site location makes it accessible to many of its users and visitors without requiring travel via automobile. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and other environmental and public health harms associated with motor vehicle use.
Hagle Hall features a “cool roof” system to mitigate the urban heat island effect, which occurs when urbanized areas experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. A cool roof is designed to reflect more sunlight than a conventional roof by absorbing less solar energy. This lowers the heat gain through the roof.
Ride a Bike
The LEED rating system encourages projects to be located on sites that respect the relationship between buildings, infrastructure and ecosystems. Located near public transportation stops in a walkable community, Hagle Hall’s site location makes it accessible to many of its users and visitors without requiring travel via automobile. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and other environmental and public health harms associated with motor vehicle use.
Saving Water
The LEED rating system encourages water use reduction in buildings. Low-flush and low-flow fixtures have been installed in Hagle Hall to reduce indoor water consumption by more than 37%. This includes water-efficient faucets, toilets, urinals and showers.
ECO Materials
Hagle Hall has finishes that are engineered from repurposed materials to reduce negative environmental impact. Additionally, interior materials were carefully selected to minimize off-gassing of volatile organize compounds, which improves the quality of the indoor air.
Keep It Clean
At Hagle Hall, all meeting, conference, break and multi-purpose rooms have landfill and recycling containers. The containers are used to collect mixed paper, corrugated cardboard, glass, certain plastics and metals. Individual recycling bins are included in each office. Additionally, Purdue University has programs for recycling e-waste, mercury-containing lamps and batteries.
Managing Waste
LEED certified buildings reduce construction and demolition waste disposed of in landfills and incineration facilities by recovering, reusing and recycling materials. During the construction of Hagle Hall, more than 75% of the total construction and demolition material was diverted from landfill.
Integration
According to LEED guidance, an integrative process is a comprehensive approach to a building’s systems to identify synergies that improve building performance, human comfort and environmental benefits, while optimizing resources. For Hagle Hall, an integrative process was utilized by project teams during the pre-design stage of the project. By working in an integrated manner from the beginning of the process, the design team was able to identify more opportunities for system optimization, with a special focus on water and energy.
Efficient Design
Optimized building design can reduce energy use, lower operating and maintenance costs and improve indoor air quality, thermal comfort and access to daylight.
Hagle Hall is over 36% more energy-efficient than a similar baseline building solution. This is accomplished through a combination of air-tight and well-insulated walls and roofs, insulated glass, high-efficiency LED lighting, ventilation control systems, and an electronic management device for the building’s heating, cooling and lighting systems.
Starry Night
Artificial exterior lighting can provide safety, comfort, building identification, architectural highlights and more. If designed poorly, lighting can cause light pollution, artificial sky glow and disruption to nocturnal animal activities and more.
At Hagle Hall, outdoor light fixtures were selected to reduce light pollution and light trespass while also meeting required light levels for safety. The fixtures were selected to meet LEED “BUG” ratings, which rates a light fixture for back-light, up-light and glare; in turn reducing light pollution and improving the ability to view the night sky.
Right Lights
LEED certified buildings are designed to promote occupants’ productivity, comfort and well-being by providing high-quality lighting. In Hagle Hall, more than 90% of individual occupant spaces feature individual lighting controls that enable occupants to adjust the lighting to suit their individual tasks and preferences. Additionally, the energy-efficient LED lighting and interior finishes are designed to help enhance electric lighting and daylighting.
Sounding Good
LEED encourages building spaces that promote occupant well-being, productivity and communications through effective acoustic design. Hagle Hall’s function required that the building be fine-tuned for acoustic performance. This was achieved through a comprehensive approach in which heating and cooling system background noise was reduced, sound isolation measures were applied to certain spaces, reverberation time (i.e., echo) was carefully managed through materials selection and space design, and sound transmission between spaces was carefully controlled.
