Sustainable Design
The firm's website claims to have more LEED® Accredited Professionals than any other design firm in North America. In 2011, Perkins+Will announced the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification of its 100th sustainable building, the Dockside Green Phase Two Balance project, located in Victoria, British Columbia. It is tied for the highest scoring LEED building worldwide with its sister project, Dockside Green Phase One.
Notable LEED projects:
- University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre, Vancouver BC - LEED Canada Platinum certified, designed to meet the Living Building Challenge
- Dockside Green in Victoria, BC.
- Great River Energy Corporate Headquarters in Maple Grove, MN - a LEED Platinum Building that is the first to combine Lake Source Geo-Exchange with displacement ventilation. The building has an urban wind turbine.
- Discovery Health Center – 1st LEED NC Certified ambulatory care facility in the country.
- Arlington Free Clinic – 1st LEED CI Gold free health clinic in the USA.
- Rush University Medical Center, Orthopedic Ambulatory Building – Largest LEED CS Gold healthcare building in the country.
- Target Retail Store - the first LEED Certified store for this company.
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Famous quotes containing the word design:
“Westerners inherit
A design for living
Deeper into matter—
Not without due patter
Of a great misgiving.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)