College of the Atlantic, a school with roughly 350 students that focuses on the environment and sustainability, plans to have 46 more student beds on campus when the project is completed this fall, COA President Darron Collins said Monday.
Not only will the three-story building help provide more on-campus housing to students in a town where housing costs have soared, it will help reduce the school’s carbon footprint, Collins said. It also will showcase emerging technology that could help boost Maine’s historic forest products industry.
“It’s all wood,” Collins said, referring to the building’s laminated structural components and its insulation. “There are bits of steel and glass, obviously, but essentially it is a wooden building.”
