Resnick Sustainability Center
The Resnick Sustainability Institute highlights campus-wide focus on pressing global issues.
Caltech's newest building is the centerpiece of a major sustainability endeavor — one that will draw from every corner of campus to address the world's most pressing scientific issues.
The Resnick Sustainability Center (RSC) is a modern, flexible, high-performance research building capable of supporting and expanding the research work of the Resnick Sustainability Institute (RSI). It is initially hosting facilities for four of the RSI's research centers: 1) an Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility, 2) a Solar Science and Catalysis Center, 3) a Remote Sensing Center, and 4) a Translational Science Facility for pilot testing at scale. These facilities support aspects of the RSI's core research initiatives: Sunlight to Everything; Climate Science; Water Resources; and Global Ecology and Biosphere Engineering. The project grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony was October 29, 2024.
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Project Summary
LEED Platinum
Project Size
79,727 gsf
Project Budget
$148M
Occupancy Date
September 2024
The Resnick project has so far received 15 awards! The awards include:
Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, International Architecture Awards, 2025
ENR Regional Best Projects, Best Project Award in the Higher Education/Research category, Excellence in Sustainability Award, 2025
Fast Company's 2025 Innovation by Design Awards, Honorable Mention in the General Excellence category, 2025 (Cannot announce until September 15, 2025)
National Design-Build Award (DBIA), 2025
WPR Design-Build Award (DBIA), 2025
A+ Awards Finalist in the Sustainable Institutional Building, 2025
AIA | LA Building Team of the Year Award, 2024
AIA Pasadena & Foothill Design Merit Award, 2023
International Architecture Award, 2023
Architizer A+ Finalist, 2023
Southern California Development Forum, Design Award, 2022
Los Angeles Business Council, 2022
Fast Company, Innovation X Design, Spaces and Places and General Excellence, 2022
AIA | LA Next LA: Educational Honor Award, 2021
Southern California Development Forum 2024 Design Award Winner, Honor, Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign
International Architecture Award for Building, 2025
