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he new Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building at UC Davis is designed to demonstrate sustainable technologies that manage energy, water and carbon emissions, and it enables the adjacent UC Davis Teaching and Research Winery, completed in 2010, to become fully self-sustainable. The 8,500-square-foot building was completed in May 2013 at a cost of $4 million, of which $3 million was pledged from the late Jess Jackson and his wife Barbara Banke of Jackson Family Wines. Project development and planBY TED ning were led by Department of Viticulture and Enology professor and chemical engineer Dr. Roger Boulton, department chair Dr. David Block, and research and teaching winery manager and winemaker Chik Brenneman. With the building now completed, equipment installation can move forward. "We couldn't go to suppliers and ask for these technologies until we had a space to put them in," Boulton said. The new building is registered in the Living Building Challenge (LBC), a certification program based on actual performance, administered by the International Living Future Institute headquartered in Seattle, Wash. Under the LBC, a building is monitored over a 12-month period of continuous use or occupancy and can be approved as meeting standards for net zero energy, water use and carbon production. It is expected to be the first building at any university to be LBC-certified net zero energy, and only the second such building in California. Boulton said he believes it will be the first facility in the world to meet all three net zero requirements. It complements and supports the sustainable stan- RIEGER, SENIOR FEATURE EDITOR Photo: Ted Rieger 72 V I N E YA R D & WINE RY MANAGEM ENT | Nov - Dec 2013 w w w. v wm m e d i a . c o m