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Projects / Buildings
NEW RESOURCE BANK / SAN FRANCISCO
As the nation’s first commercial green bank, New Resource Bank offers special loan programs to green developers and finances residential and commercial solar installations. It recently was selected as a preferred financial partner of Solar Santa Monica, a solar campaign operated by the city of Santa Monica, Calif.
SWEETWATER SOUND / FORT WAYNE, IND.
Sweetwater Sound is the fourth-largest musical instrument and pro-audio retailer in the world. It recently completed a 180,000-square-foot (16722-m2) facility that features a 250-seat auditorium and performance theater with four separate sound systems combined with three new recording studios. Sales offices are clad in bamboo, and other rapidly renewable materials were used throughout the facility.
THE POINT AT MORRISTOWN / N.J.
This 24,000-square-foot (2230-m2), 6-story mixed office and retail building includes ceiling heights designed to maximize energy efficiency, dual-flush toilets, sensor-operated faucets, tinted double-pane operable windows, carpeting made from recycled materials, an on-siterecycling center, fluorescent lighting, rooftop solar panels and a high-efficiency HVAC system.
HOME ON THE RANGE / BILLINGS, MONT.
As Montana’s only LEED Platinum-certified structure recognized by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council, this 8,300-square-foot (771-m2) building houses several nonprofit environmental groups. The building, which had been an abandoned 1940s grocery store, was refurbished for less than the cost of new construction.
NATIONALS PARK / WASHINGTON, D.C.
Built on a brownfield site, the Nationals Park is the first Major League Baseball stadium to receive LEED Silver certification from the Washington-based U.S. Green Building Council.
KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER / COPPERTON, UTAH
Measures to reduce environmental impacts, such as using recycled materials, increased daylighting, low-emitting materials, innovative design and reduced water and energy consumption, earned the Kennecott Mine Administration Building and the Bingham Canyon Mine Visitor Center LEED Silver certification and LEED Certification, respectively, from the U.S. Green Building Council, Washington, D.C. The buildings’ uniqueness lies in their portability.

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