Located deep Upstate in Adirondack Park, the Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks is the first museum in New York State to receive a LEED rating, earning Silver from USGBC last week. The $30 million facility opened back in July of 2006 and primarily presents exhibitions about the Adirondacks’ human history. The Wild Center is also the first LEED-certified building in Adirondack Park of any kind, which at 6 million acres is larger than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
February 11th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "HOK"
Monday LEEDoff: Gale International/U-Life Northeast Asia Headquarters, Incheon, South Korea
HOK’s New York office recently released its design for a five-story, 55,000-square-foot commercial office building in the Songdo International Business District (“IBD”) in Incheon, South Korea (online renderings of the tower do not appear available yet). Developed by Gale International in collaboration with POSCO E&C, the Gale International/U-Life Northeast Asia Headquarters Building will aim for [...]
December 24th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The Top 5 Green A/E/C Firms (by Number, Percentage of LEED-APs)
Coordination. Integration. Beyond the bells and whistles of sexy, but expensive, green design features such as green roofs or geothermal heating and cooling systems, sustainable construction is about a truly collaborative effort between owners, designers, and contractors. While the former are certainly more likely to earn a project on the local paper’s front page, educated [...]
December 18th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued