Basketball/Volleyball Practice Facility

The $10.8 million practice facility, built with private funding, opened in August 2011 adding two oversized basketball/volleyball courts that match the CU Events Center main floor, a new women's basketball locker room, additional coaches offices, and meeting rooms. The facility is attached to the north side of the CU Events Center allowing CU basketball/volleyball student-athletes greater access better flexibility in practice and workout scheduling.

The structure matches the campus architectural Charles Klauder theme, a northern Italian, rural Tuscany influence, with varicolored sandstone and red-tiled roofs to match the other 200-plus buildings on the CU-Boulder campus.

The practice facility was given LEED Platinum Certification, the highest possible by the internationally recognized system developed by the US Green Building Council. As of the summer 2011, 557 buildings in the world have achieved it, 473 in the United States. Of the 473 in the U.S., only 31 other buildings in all of higher education nationwide have met the standard, and this is the second athletic facility beside's Florida's west stadium expansion.

In May 2012, the volleyball and basketball practice facility received a LEED platinum rating -- the highest designation -- from the United States Green Building Council. It is the first LEED-certified athletic facility on the CU-Boulder campus and one of only two platinum-rated athletic facilities in the Pac-12. LEED certification is a U.S. benchmark for sustainable design and construction.

The practice facility is estimated to be 40 percent more energy efficient and 30 percent more water efficient than recent buildings of similar size and function.

Its features include rooftop solar panels that are capable of providing 10 to 12 percent of the building's electricity. The structure is cooled with an evaporative system that uses less energy than traditional mechanical systems. The facility also is outfitted with low-flow water fixtures, high-performance insulation and windows, efficient lighting, and lighting and heating controls that are key to optimizing energy savings.

Directions

On your smart phone, search "Coors Events Center" OR.
Get To US-36 & Colorado Avenue.
Turn west onto Colorado Avenue.
Turn left Regent Drive (first stoplight).
The CU Events Center is on your left.
Turn left onto Engineering Drive, then an immediate left into the public parking lot.