The Sharp Sustainability Education Center, opened in 2010, houses a "smart" classroom, a display gallery, an office, and support spaces. The Center deomonstrates the concept of green building by making the best use of orientation, natural daylight and natural ventilation, using recycled and environmentally-friendly materials, reducing water consumption through fixture choice and collection of rainwater for irrigation, providing heating and cooling via a geothermal system, electricity production from roof-mounted photovoltaic panels, and providing a super-insulated building "envelope" (walls and windows, roof and floor slab) to reduce heating and cooling loads.