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.

Resnick Sustainabiliy Center Construction Timelapse:

Project Summary

LEED Platinum

Project Size

79,727 gsf

Project Budget

$148M

Occupancy Date

September 2024

The Resnick project has received a number of awards, including the following:

AIA | LA Building Team of the Year Award, 2024
AIA Pasadena & Foothill Design Merit Award, 2023
International Architecture Awards, 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