10-05-2025
CMU's Asteria Theatre takes home two national sustainability awards
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) – Many who step on a stage at a performing arts venue are searching for a Golden Globe.
But CMU's Asteria Theatre itself won an award: A Green Globe award for the building's work in sustainability.
The Green Globe awards are given out by the Green Building Initiative, a national nonprofit that focuses on making more energy-efficient and water-efficient buildings around the nation
Asteria Theater is the project of the year for 2024, and it's the first of its kind to win the prestigious award.
'Something that really stood out for Green Globes was that this is the first performing arts venue that has achieved three Green Globes,' said CMU's Capital Projects Manager Jaime Cox. 'So for that to also be highlighted nationwide was a real accomplishment.'
And this is not the first time CMU has been on the list, either.
The 2023 Green Globes Project of the Year honorable mention in Sustainable New Construction the Foster Field House, which is also on CMU's campus.
By using sustainable energy, CMU is able to trickle the savings down to its students.
'One of the achievements with our energy efficiency and our geothermal initiative is that we are able to keep tuition down,' said Cox. 'By actually supplementing all of our heating and cooling with the geothermal principles and allowing us to save money and put it back into our students.'
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