The National Audubon Society, one of the country’s oldest and best-known wildlife conservation groups, has just moved into a new eco-friendly headquarters, the New York Times reported this weekend. The office, which occupies the seventh floor of 225 Varick Street, went well beyond the criteria needed to receive LEED Platinum certification, according to John Flicker, Audubon’s president. The idea was to lead by example, and Flicker reported that the Society was able to “meet the LEED standard more fully than [it] anticipated and with less effort that [it] expected” due to the increased availability of green building materials on the market. The project registered under LEED for Commercial Interiors (”LEED-CI”) and is currently awaiting formal certification- for Platinum or otherwise- from USGBC.
April 8th, 2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued