Foxcroft School's newest building, a $10.3 million dormitory named Stuart Hall, will be dedicated Saturday, September 28th at 1 pm on the Middleburg campus of the girls' school. The public is invited.

Nan Stuart, a 1971 graduate of Foxcroft who had the honor of naming the building, will highlight the program, which will be followed by tours of the building. Stuart, who lives in Longmont, Colorado, and sits on the School's Board, revealed her noted sense of humor by naming the dorm after another girls' school. No doubt her comments Saturday will be noteworthy as well.

Stuart Hall is the third major construction project completed by Foxcroft in the past five years. A $14.5 million Athletic and Student Center opened in 2010, just a year after a new maintenance facility was unveiled. Impressively, the School has accomplished all this in a tough economic climate and without going into debt.

The dormitory is Foxcroft's first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified building. It uses geothermal wells for efficient heating and cooling, and regional and recycled materials for many of its components. Environmentally-friendly elements include a touch-screen "dashboard" in the dorm's lobby which monitors the building's energy use. The dashboard, also accessible at wwww.foxcroft.org, was created by Foxcroft engineering students working with Lucid Technology and Business Manager Deborah Anderson.

Another 26 students – whose signatures are all memorialized on Stuart Hall's basement floor – had an intimate look at the construction process last year through a seminar called "Project Green Build." It consisted of monthly sessions, complete with hard-hat site visits and hands-on projects, created by Forrester Construction Company, together with the School's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty.