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The Built Environment as a Campus Laboratory
The pilot puts Hamilton's building data on a campus dashboard, growing out of our January 2026 presentation to Hamilton.
Pilot in progress.Results aren't in yet, so this page covers the plan.
Hamilton College pilot. Generic campus illustration.
Buildings and resource use
- Status
- Pilot
- Dates
- May 2026 to spring 2027
- Data
- Hamilton's building data
- Conference
- AASHE 2026, a joint proposal with Oberlin
National and global context
The following benchmarks describe buildings across the United States and worldwide, not Hamilton College.
From our January 2026 presentation to Hamilton.
The plan is to teach with the campus buildings
The pilot builds on Architecture as Pedagogy (Orr, 1993). Its premise is that a campus's buildings are part of its education. The goal is to combine storytelling with real time feedback, so students learn from their own community.
An Oberlin example: the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College.What the pilot uses
How people will use it
These are the teaching opportunities in the presentation to Hamilton. They're plans for now, not results.
In class
Environmental Studies, Data Science, Geology, Biology, Psychology, Computer Science and Public Health.
In residential life
The plan includes town-gown projects, C-Neutral stories like Oberlin's, and a sustainability trail, still in development.
Origin Story
Dates for Hamilton College only. Community Hub's own history since 2000 is on the About page.
- January 2026
We present The Built Environment as a Campus Laboratory to Hamilton.
- March 2026
A proposal sets the pilot's phases, from May 2026 to spring 2027.
- May 2026
The pilot phase begins.
- 2026
Hamilton and Oberlin submit a joint proposal for AASHE 2026.
- Spring 2027
The pilot phase ends.
Hamilton's dashboard isn't public yet
To see a campus dashboard live now, open Oberlin College's.
