Scott Hall has been featured in numerous publications including the book, Form and Dichroic Light, with a foreword by the late Cesar Pelli, FAIA. Scott Hall has also received many prestigious design and innovation awards and honors, such as the:

• USGBC LEED Gold BD+C Certification, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• 2019 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in Athens, Greece
• 2019 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and European Centre The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
• SARA NY 2019 Design Award, Society American Registered Architects New York Council
• The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design 2018 Award

• GRAY Magazine 2018 Design Award
• ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Award 2018, Building/Technology Category, Silver Medal Featured 2018 SCHOTT AG of Germany Glass Innovation Experts, OFFICE 52 Architecture

Construction for the Sherman and Joyce Bowie Scott Hall began after the Scott Institute was established in 2012 with a founding gift from CMU alumni Sherman Scott (E'66), president and founder of Delmar Systems, and his wife, university trustee Joyce Bowie Scott (A'65). Both the Sherman and Joyce Bowie Scott Hall and the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation were funded by Sherman Scott and his wife Joyce Bowie Scott. The institute is named for Sherman’s father, Wilton E. Scott. Like Carnegie Mellon University, the Scotts epitomize the marriage of technology and the arts. The two met while studying at CMU, with Sherman earning his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Joyce earning a Fine Arts degree.

Additional support for the building as well as education and research in energy was provided by a generous grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburgh in 2013. In addition to the Scotts, CMU received support for Scott Hall from CMU alumni John Bertucci (E'63, TPR'65) and his wife, Claire Ruge Bertucci (MM'65); CMU alumnus Jonathan Rothberg (E'85) and his wife, Bonnie Gould Rothberg; and the Eden Hall Foundation.