Sustainable Facilities: Green Design, Construction, and Operations

By Keith Moskow

Let a crew of prime Architects Take you thru 20 Large-Scale, Sustainable amenities Designed with eco-friendly equipment and Materials!

an important operating instrument for all construction pros attracted to eco-friendly structure and development, Sustainable Facilities provides an in-depth examine 20 amenities that have been designed for environmental corporations and have been developed and now function utilizing eco-friendly development tools and materials.

that includes contributions by means of top architects in eco-friendly development, this professional source examines every one building_from making plans via operations-- overlaying new development, energy-efficient layout, operational expense mark downs, old maintenance, maintenance and enlargement, land conservation, and LEED ratings.

Packed with two hundred black & white and full-color illustrations, Sustainable amenities takes readers in the course of the Woods gap examine middle… Chesapeake Bay starting place Environmental Center…Conservation legislations origin Headquarters… Marion paintings and Environmental heart… …Thoreau middle for Sustainability… California EPA Headquarters Building…Forestech Centre…Institute for Forestry and Nature Research…and many different amenities. This skills-building reference features:

Authoritative and updated, Sustainable Facilities now equips architects, engineers, and contractors with a cutting-edge consultant to eco-friendly layout, building, and operations. The reference comprises details on fabrics, equipment, and prices that may let them to take an built-in workforce method of eco-friendly layout and construction for amenities of all kinds.

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32 five Bay schooling heart, windfall, Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forty two 6 Pocono Environmental Education/Visitor task heart, Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fifty two 7 Chesapeake Bay beginning, Philip Merrill Environmental heart, Annapolis, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sixty two eight Kresge beginning Headquarters, Troy, Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . seventy two nine Gwinnett Environmental & historical past heart, Buford, Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eighty two 10 Marion Arts and Environmental middle at Lowe Park, Marion, Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety two 11 Carl T. Curtis, Midwest nearby Headquarters construction, nationwide Park provider, Omaha, Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 12 international Birding middle, project, Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 thirteen nationwide outside management university Headquarters, Lander, Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . 122 14 IslandWood, Bainbridge Island, Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 15 The Joe Serna, Jr. —California Environmental safety corporation (CALEPA) Headquarters construction, Sacramento, California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 sixteen The Thoreau heart for Sustainability, San Francisco, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 17 The Robert Redford construction for the typical assets protection Council, Santa Monica, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 18 Forestech, Baimsdale, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 19 Federal Environmental enterprise, Dessau, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 20 Institute for Forestry and Nature learn (IBN), Wageningen, The Netherlands. . . . 192 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS firstly, because of the contributing architects and their consumers who provided nearly all of the images and textual content for this booklet. because of my collaborators at Moskow Architects: Robert Linn, John resort, Jacqueline Maldonado, Cassandra Thornberg, and should Morgan. finally, due to my spouse, Allison, and my sons, Zac and Jake, who're supportive in each manner. Copyright © 2008 by means of Keith G. Moskow. click on right here for phrases of use. LEGEND 1 Appalachian Mountain membership, Crawford Notch, NH eleven Carl T. Curtis nationwide Park carrier Omaha, NE 2 The Doyle Conservation heart Leominster, MA 12 global Birding middle project, TX three Conservation legislation origin Boston, MA thirteen nationwide open air management college Headquarters, Lander, WY four Woods gap learn middle Falmouth, MA 14 IslandWood Bainbridge Island, WA five Bay schooling middle windfall, RI 15 California Environmental safety organisation Headquarters construction, Sacramento, CA 6 Pocono Environmental Education/Visitor task heart Dingmans Ferry, PA sixteen The Thoreau middle for Sustainability San Francisco, CA 7 Chesapeake Bay Foundation/Philip Merrill Environmental middle, Annapolis, MD 17 The Robert Redford development Santa Monica, CA eight Kresge starting place development Troy, MI 18 Forestech Baimsdale, Australia (Not proven) nine Gwinnett Environmental & historical past heart Buford, GA 19 Federal Environmental company Dessau, Germany (Not proven) 10 Marion paintings and Environmental heart Marion, IA 20 Institute for Forestry and Nature study Wageningen, The Netherlands (Not proven) This web page deliberately left clean INTRODUCTION It’s difficult being eco-friendly.

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