The Dudley H. Davis Center (also known as the Davis Center) at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the United ...

was the first

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in the United States to receive a

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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ''Gold'' certification. The building is a four-story structure with a

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between 186,000 and 202,954 ft². Completed in 2007, the Davis Center replaced the Billings Memorial Library as the university's main student center.

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* Buildings at the University of Vermont School buildings completed in 2007 2007 establishments in Vermont {{vermont-struct-stub