I spent the weekend down in southwestern Virginia with my girlfriend at her parents’ place, so I thought it would be appropriate to write about a local LEED project today. Unfortunately, green news is still bit thin in those parts, but I was able to dig up a few LEED projects in Roanoke, which is [...]
December 31st, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Virginia"
Cromley Lofts: 1210 Queen Street, Alexandria, Virginia
Cromley Lofts in Alexandria is the State of Virginia’s first LEED-certified condominium development, a three-story, eight-unit adaptive reuse project that earned a Gold rating from USGBC after completion earlier this year. Many of my friends from law school live in Northern Virginia, so this was a particularly interesting project for me to hear about from [...]
October 12th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Kettler Capitals Iceplex: Arlington, Virginia
The Washington Capitals’ new training center facility in Arlington, Virginia isn’t a stadium at all (it only seats 1,000 people), but I think it’s important to track the green building efforts of our professional sports teams. As I’ve written about before, green stadiums and arenas present unique design issues that aren’t sufficiently contemplated by LEED [...]
July 13th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued