Denver, CO Project Type: Agricultural Project Size: 35,000 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: This working greenhouse is a horticultural production facility with adjoining two-story office and tropical plant display pavilion. Located east of downtown, the Denver Botanic Gardens provides trainings in native plant propagation serving as a resource for all who live in the Rocky Mountain [...]
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Broomfield, CO LEED Certification: LEED -NC Silver Project Type: Detention Facility PROJECT SUMMARY: This Detention Center Addition includes capacity for 138 inmates, security support, and administrative areas. The sustainability emphasis for the project has been to create high quality indoor environments (daylight, acoustics) and to minimize the environmental footprint in terms of energy and [...]
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Boulder, CO LEED Certification: LEED-NC Gold Project Type: Fire Training Facility Project Size: 16,000 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: This project is a Fire Training Center building including classrooms, offices, an apparatus bay, and lockers rooms. The project site includes three burn buildings for fire training exercises. Other components of this training center include: A pump [...]
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Gateway Canyons, Gateway, CO LEED Certification: LEED-NCv2.2 Certified Project Type: Conference and Event Center, Restaurant and Theatre Project Size: 20,000 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: The Palisade Events Center is located in the picturesque high desert of western Colorado, at Gateway Canyons Resort. The Center provides a versatile space for gatherings, parties, events and conferences and [...]
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Greenville, SC LEED Certification: LEED-CS 2009 – Targeting Silver Project Type: Mixed-Use, Retail, Offices Project Size: 184,000 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: The ONE/Greenville Mixed-Use Tower is a new speculative development that sits adjacent to a large public plaza in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The 184,000 SF project will house several major retail tenants on the [...]
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Norwalk, CT Award of Merit for Green Advocate: Connecticut GBC Green Building Awards LEED Certification: NC 2.2 Gold Project Type: Museum, Offices Project Size: 21,300 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: This new addition to the existing museum adds critically needed space to the Stepping Stones Museum for Children. It includes two stories of museum galleries, workshop [...]
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY LEED Certification: LEED-NC Targeting Gold Project Type: University, Academic Project Size: 128,355 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: Warren Hall is a faculty office/instruction building, originally constructed in 1933 with an addition connecting it to Mann Library, built in the early 1950’s. The goal of the Warren Hall renovation is to create an environment [...]
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Columbia University, New York, NY LEED Certification: LEED-NC Targeting Platinum Project Type: Office, Higher Education Project Size: 97,000 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: This project includes the renovation of the historic Studebaker Building on the Columbia University north campus. This 6-story building formerly served as an industrial building (automotive finishing facility and a milk processing plant) and [...]
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Denver, CO LEED Certification: LEED for Schools Targeting Gold Project Type: Cafeteria, Classroom Project Size: 14,000 SF PROJECT SUMMARY: This 2-story building includes a cafeteria, classrooms, a computer lab and outdoor use areas on an existing K-8 school campus. Project scope includes demo and construction within the existing building footprint, and deconstruction to salvage [...]
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Note to Self: There are Actual Humans in Our Buildings
Ashley Halligan from Software Advice has a nice piece on the all important subject of occupant behavior, here. Green building professionals often suffer from the same handicap as economists, we assume our subjects (the people in our buildings, the consumers in our economy) are purely logical robots. But of course, this is not the case. [...]
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