30 LEED Platinum and Gold Buildings in the USA

30 LEED Platinum and Gold Buildings In the USA

Margaret Carroll Boardman, Ph.D.“Sustainability in Action”GR2 LLC, August 2013

Photo Credits: (top) Academy panorama, Wikimedia Commons, (left) Rainforest, Tim Griffith, Time ©2013 Margaret Carroll Boardman Ph.D. for GR2 LLC

Architect: Renzo PianoCost: $500MLEED Date: 2008, 2011Square Footage: 400,000 ft2

The Academy is the largest public Platinum-rated building in the world, and also the world’s greenest museum. It is a double Platinum LEED building, one awarded in 2008 and another in 2011. It is a single building housing multiple venues: aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum, 4-story rainforest, 3D theater, lecture hall, Naturalist Center, two restaurants, an adjacent garden and aviary, a roof terrace, a museum store, science labs, administrative offices, and extensive library and scientific archive with more than 26 million specimens.

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA Platinum

Photos: LEED details - Photovoltaic panels harvest enough solar energy to power 12.5% of the complex’s annual energy demand. Landscaping replaced with native, drought tolerant plants and trees. Credit: SB, Stanford University.

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Architect: ArupBoora Architects

Cost: $345 millionLEED Date: 2012Square Footage: 360,000 ft2

Graduate School of Business, Knight Management CenterStanford University, Stanford, California

Opened in 2011 and LEED certified platinum in 2012, the Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is an eight-building complex. Its mission is to support an innovative MBA curriculum and interdisciplinary learning on environmental leadership and sustainability across seven schools.

Platinum

Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca PartnershipCost: $26 millionLEED Date: 2002 (new) 2009 (existing)Square Footage:

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The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara was the first building to earn double LEED Platinum certification. It was opened in 2002 as “the first LEED Platinum laboratory building in the nation” and recertified LEED in 2009.

Photo credits: Cerami Associates and UCSB

Platinum

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Architect/Engineer: Hellmuth, Obata & KassabaumCushman & Wakefield

Cost: $1.1billion (new & old retrofit) estimate by Swinerton Builders ($2.3m for retrofit via BusinessWeek)

LEED Date: 2006Square Footage: 939,358ft2

Adobe Towers

San JoseCalifornia

Adobe World Headquarters consists of 3 commercial towers. This complex is the world’s first commercial enterprise to achieve a total of three LEED Platinum certifications, awarded in December 2006. Construction/LEED costs are difficult to calculate as the West Tower was built in 1996 (retrofitted LEED), the East Tower was built in 1998 (retrofitted LEED), and the Almaden Tower built in 2003 (new LEED certification).

Photo credit: BusinessWeek

Platinum

Rand opened a new $100 million headquarters in Santa Monica in 2005. As part of its construction design plan, it incorporated LEED features such as limited underground parking, energy-reduction, and access to natural light. It was awarded LEED Gold certification in 2006.

Photo Credits: (Top) Business Week via Benny Chan, Fotoworks (above) Turner Construction

Rand CorporationSanta Monica, CA

Architect: DMJM Design Turner Construction

Cost: $100 millionLEED Date: 2006Square Footage: 310,000ft2

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Gold

Photo credits: U.S. Green Building Council, Bill Timmerman and NREL

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Architect: Haselden Construction, RNL and Stantec (phase 1), SmithGroup (phase 2)

Cost: Estimated $64M (phase 1) + $29M (phase 2 extension)LEED Date: 2010, 2012Square Footage: 360,000 ft2 (220,000 phase 1) (140,000 phase 2)

National Renewable Energy LaboratoryU.S. Department of Energy, Golden, CO

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is the US government‘s primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. It is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility (by MRIGlobal and Battelle Memorial Institute). There are 4 LEED certified buildings on its 327-acre main campus . The Research Support Facility houses 1300 employees and has 2 LEED Platinum certifications – one for original construction and another for a 139,000 sq ft expansion. This makes total construction costs difficult to calculate.

Platinum

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Architect: Hopkins Architects, Centerbrook Architects and Planners, ARUP, Atelier Ten, and The Olin Studio

Cost: $33.5 millionLEED Date: 2010Square Footage: 68,800 ft2

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Kroon Hall, Yale University

Kroon Hall is Yale University’s second building (following the Sculpture Building) to achieve LEED Platinum certification. It stands as a symbol of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies’ ideals and values in built form. Sustainable landscapes are anchored into the concept of the building and surrounding Science Hill including outside courtyards, native plants, species, a green roof and Mars Pond, where grey water from the building is cleansed by aquatic plants.

Platinum

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Architects:Leo A DalyGallo Herbert Lebolo

Cost: $43.5MLEED Date: 2011Square Footage: 97,000 ft2

Florida Atlantic University,

Photo: College of Engineering & Computer Science -- (right) building exterior. Credit: Leo A Daly via RobAid. (left) LEED certified interior includes the University Faculty & Staff Club, the Atrium and Atrium Patio, and The DiVinci Room. Credit: GBDMagazine

College of Engineering and Computer ScienceBoca Raton, FL

Platinum

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Architect: Dirk Lohan of Lohan AssociatesCost: $150,000LEED Date: 2009Square Footage: 704,000ft2

McDonald's headquarters is a 4-story building known as the Campus Office Building (COB). Located in Oak Brook, Illinois, COB was designed by architect Dirk Lohan and is one of three buildings on 88 acres developed as a wooded office campus site It has been retrofitted to LEED platinum certification. This includes sustainable landscaping features such as woods, water retention basins (2 creek-fed ponds), and an irrigation system.

McDonald’s Headquarters, Oak Brook, Illinois

Photo credits: (left) BusinessWeek, (right) Kim Bhasin / Business Insider

Platinum

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PepsiCo Sustainability Center - among the first of its kind in corporate America -- achieved Platinum LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in April 2009.

Pepsico Sustainability Center555 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL

Photo Credits: (top) PepsiCo Sustainability Center Image-Base (above) PepsiCo Building where the Sustainability Center is located Loop-Net

Architect: Parachin Design StudiosLEED Date: 2007 (Silver, building) 2009 (Platinum, Sustainability Center)

Footage: 420,000 ft2 (3,500 ft2 for the Sustainability Center)

Located on Quaker Plaza, the PepsiCo building is 16 floors and was built in 2002. It is houses 1,900 employees and includes PepsiCo subsidiaries Gatorade, Quaker and Tropicana. The PepsiCo Green Team is in charge of meeting sustainability goals, including LEED Silver certification, as well as education fellow employees and the public. Within the building, a 3,000 square foot Sustainability Center - among the first of its kind in corporate America -- achieved Platinum LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in April 2009.

Platinum

Architect: Farr AssociatesCost: $14.4 millionLEED Date: 2002, 2013Square Footage: 40,000 ft2

The Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT) is the first rehabilitated municipal building in the nation to receive the LEED Platinum certification.

This is a renovation of a 1952 building and brownsite that became a municipally owned by the City of Chicago after Sacramento Crushing Corporation closed. As part of the clean-up efforts, the city invested $14.4million ($9 million in clean-up costs, $5.4 million renovation)

Photo credits: (top) WRD Environmental, David Reynolds (left) Chicago Center for Green Technology

Chicago Center for Green Technology

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Platinum

At Harvard University, there are 64 LEED certified buildings. Another 31 are under review for total of 95 registered for LEED review and/or certification.

Certified LEED Platinum in March 2009, Harvard Griswold Hall, part of the Harvard Law School was the first LEED Platinum for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) in New England, first at any University, and only the 19th in the World. The interior space is located inside Griswold Hall, 1525 Massachusetts Avenue on the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus in Cambridge, MA. It includes a conference room, a storefront, and a restroom. It serves as faculty and staff space. Square footage: 1655, architect: Sean Stewart Architects.

The Harvard Law School Student Center, opened in 2012 in Wasserstein Hall, the Caspersen Student Center, and the Clinical Wing (WCC) was certified LEED Gold. This is because certain decisions were made to give priority to user friendliness (LEED Gold) over sustainability choices(LEED Platinum). Square footage: 250,000, architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP

Photo Credits: Harvard University, Sustainability and Harvard Business Law Review ©2013 Margaret Carroll Boardman Ph.D. for GR2 LLC

Harvard University

Platinum

Gold

The Discovery Channel headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. received LEED Platinum certification in 2008. In addition to sustainable landscaping, it includes energy efficiency measures such as wind power. It was the first existing building in Maryland to be awarded any level of LEED certification.

Discovery Communications1 Discovery Place, Silver Spring, Maryland

Photo credits: (top) Business Week (left) Silver Spring downtown

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Architect: SmithGroupLEED Date: 2007Square Footage: 540,000ft2

Platinum

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Architect: Perkins + WillCost: $57 millionLEED Date: 2008Square Footage: 166,000ft2

Great River Energy HeadquartersMaple Grove, Minnesota

Photo credits: Perkins + Will

Built in 2008, Great River’s new headquarters is LEED Platinum. It was designed to use 50 percent less energy than Minnesota code requires, and to use 90% less water than comparable facilities. The builder used locally manufactured and recycled materials in construction, including fly ash from Great River’s Coal Creek Station, and diverted 75 percent of the construction waste from the landfill.

Platinum

Novus International is a joint venture in the animal health and nutrition sector with Japanese companies Mitsui and Nippon Soda. Its US headquarters incorporates LEED Platinum features such as natural lighting and 5,000 square feet of solar panels, the largest number in Missouri.

Novus InternationalSt. Charles, Missouri

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Architect: Clayco (St. Louis, MO)Cost: $20 million renovationLEED Date: 2009Square Footage: 90,000 ft2

Photo credits: Business Week and A/N Blog

Platinum

Platinum

The Fites Engineering Innovation Center is one of only five LEED Platinum buildings in Indiana. It is the only building on a university campus in the state to achieve this level of LEED certification.

Its LEED Platinum features include: Power partially generated by high-efficiency solar panels; lighting, heating and cooling controlled by occupancy sensors; water savings from waterless and low-flow fixtures; underground infiltrators and surface rain garden for storm water runoff; zero-maintenance landscaping with drought-tolerant native Indiana prairie grasses; and use of recycled materials.

Donald V. Fites Engineering Innovation CenterValparaiso University, Indiana

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Photo credit: Valparaiso University, College of Engineering on Flickr

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Architect:Real Estate Manager:

Norman FosterTishman Speyer

Cost: $500 millionLEED Date: 2006 (Gold) 2012 (Platinum)Square Footage: 861,100ft2

The original 6-floors of the Hearst Tower were completed in 1928. In 2006, Hearst Tower was the first building to receive a Gold LEED rating for core and shell and interiors in New York City.

In 2012, Hearst Tower earned a Platinum LEED Rating for Existing Buildings, becoming the first building to receive both Gold and Platinum certifications.

Hearst TowerNew York

Photo credits: So You Know Better Blog and NY-Pictures.com

Platinum

Gold

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Architect/Design &LEED Consulting:

Johnson ControlsJones Lang LaSalleRocky Mountain InstituteClinton Climate Initiative

Cost: $550 millionLEED Date: 2011Square Footage: 2.85 million ft2

The Empire State Building is the tallest and most well known building in the U.S. to receive LEED certification. The Clinton Climate Initiative, in conjunction with Johnson Controls, Jones Lang LaSalle, and the Rocky Mountain Institute, did an eight-month modeling and projections analysis, tacked on $13.2 million for a greening initiative and came up with a way to reduce the 79-year-old building’s electricity needs by almost 40 percent – saving the owners $4.4 million, annually.

Empire State BuildingNew York , NY

Photo credit:ASCE via

Wikimedia Commons/Daniel

Schwen

Gold

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Architect: Schemmer Associates Inc.LEED Date: 2011Square Footage: 69,000ft2

Photo Credit: Schemmer Associates

Located on 13 acres, the new Omaha Public Power District Service Center includes is LEED Platinum certified. Its sustainable and environmental features includes 60-kilowatt array of solar panels, a 1.2-kilowatt vertical-axis wind turbine, LED yard lighting, water-saving plumbing fixtures and recyclable outside siding.

Platinum

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Architect:Cost:LEED Date: 2007

Square Footage: 126,000ft2

Armstrong World HeadquartersLancaster, PA

Photo Credits: USGBC and Armstrong via PRNewswire

Armstrong World Industries is a global leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings, and cabinets. It is also the USA’s largest manufacturer of acoustical ceiling systems. It earned the first LEED innovation credit for superior acoustic design, which improves occupant well being, comfort, and performance. Its headquarters built in 1998 on a 700 acre campus near Lancaster, PA. It was renovated to LEED Platinum certification in 2007.

Platinum

Architect: Rafael Vinoly Architects, P.C.Construction Manager: Turner Construction/P. J. Dick/ATSFacility Manager: SMGCost: $373 millionFootage: 1.5 millionft2

David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Photo Credit (left): Gene J. Puskar/ Associated Press via www.post-gazette.com

LEED Gold

(2003)

LEED Platinum

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In 2003, when the DLCC was awarded LEED Gold certification, it the first convention center in the U.S. and the largest "green" building in the world. The DLCC was awarded LEED Platinum for existing buildings in 2012. Both LEED certifications are used to attract conventions, especially groups which have upgrade bylaws looking for sustainable facilities.

Platinum

Gold

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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Pittsburgh, PA

The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a historic landmark. It was founded and gifted to the city of Pittsburgh in 1893 by steel and real-estate millionaire Henry Phipps. Its mission is to educate the public on plants, gardening, botany and horticulture. It’s LEED certification include:

LEED Silver (2006) - the Welcome Center at entrance of the Phipps Conservatory (footage: 12,465ft2), architect: IKM Inc.)

LEED Platinum (2012) – the Center for Sustainable Landscapes (also meets the Living Building Challenge for net-zero energy) and the greenhouse production facility – the only greenhouse to achieve this level of certification. (footage: 24,350ft2, architects: Design Alliance Architects)

Photo Credits: (left) Amalia Morsi via Flickr (below) Phipps Conservatory

Platinum

Silver

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Architect: Thomas HackerCost: $20 million renovationLEED Date: 2009Square Footage: 85,000ft2

Mercy Corps HeadquartersPortland, Oregon

In 2009, Mercy Corps led a successful fundraising campaign to integrate all employees in Portland into one headquarters. Following renovations to the original 1890s building, it received LEED Platinum certification.

The building is located near historic Skidmore Fountain, dedicated in 1888. As part of the redesign, new structures were “spliced” in, including salvaged Douglas fir wood and an overlook to the Saturday Market and the Willamette River. Space is shared with Jeld-Wen Foundation and the Lemelson Foundation who donated $13.7 million of the $20 million needed for the building renovation.Photo Credit: The Oregonian

Platinum

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Architect: Jacob White DevelopmentLEED Date: 2010

Square Footage: 24,000ft2

FC Gulf Freeway LtdHouston, Texas

Photo credit: City of Houston

This 2-story privately owned, corporate office building was certified LEED Platinum in 2010. It is home to Houston's largest living (green) roof, as well as many green features such as storing over 465,000 gallons of storm water runoff for irrigation and water closet use, illuminating the exterior with highly efficient LED lighting, and power supplied by 100% green power.

Platinum

Home of the Mean Green Football team, this is the first newly constructed collegiate football stadium in the USA to achieve LEED Platinum certification. Two of the three university-owned turbines generate wind power for the stadium's electrical grid.

Photo Credits: (top) For Construction Pros and (left)

Wikimedia Commons via Runfellow

Apogee Stadium, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Architect: HKS, Inc.Cost: $78 millionLEED Date: 2011Seats: 30,850 with

capacity to expand to 50,000

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Platinum

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Architect: Mackey MitchellCost: $20.8m renovationLEED Date: 2004Square Footage: 110,000ft2

Alberici Corporate HeadquartersOverland, MO

Photo credits: Alberici and Filter’s Fast “Greenest Buildings in the US”

Alberici converted a 50-year-old manufacturing facility into its new LEED Platinum corporate headquarters outside of St. Louis. The existing property contained a large, two-story metal fabrication facility. Alberici divided the facility by removing a middle section, creating a courtyard, creating one side into a 2-story, mezzanine-style office space and the other into a multi-level, car garage.

Platinum

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Architect: Karlsberger Cost: $200 millionLEED Date: 2007Square Footage: 473,000ft2

Dell Children's Medical Centerof Central Texas

Photo credits: Health Care Design Magazine

This is the world’s first healthcare facility to achieve LEED Platinum certification. It is part of the Seton Family of Hospitals and is integrated into Austin's Mueller Airport redevelopment zone. Fundraising included a $25 million grant and additional $50 million from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.

Platinum

Architect: Goody Clancy Cost: $12 millionLEED Date: 2012Square Footage: 26,000ft2 (11,600 original, 14,400 new )

Originally built in 1859 in Burlington’s historic district, Perry Hall was purchased by Champlain College in 2004. It was reopened in 2009 as the Welcome & Admission Center for the university. The original historic detail work was preserved and office and conference room space was added to a new addition. LEED Platinum features include energy efficient lighting and climate control systems, especially a geothermal pump from Perry Hall’s deep water wells.

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Perry Hall, Champlain College, Vermont

Photo credits: (top) Building Energy Resilience(above) Engelberth

Platinum

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute built Janelia Farm Research Campus on 689 acres outside of Washington, D.C. in Ashburn, Loudoun County, VA. It was opened in October 2006 with a focus on interdisciplinary research especially in neurobiology. In 2011 it had 424 employees with space for another 150. The main Landscape Building is 180,000 square feet and it is concealed by a green roof, the second largest in the USA.

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteJanelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA

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Architect: Rafael Vinoly ArchitectsCost: $300 millionLEED Date: 2006Square Footage: 180,000ft2

Photo credits: www.hhmi.org and www.natlfire.com

Platinum

Johnson Controls assisted with LEED certification on the Empire State Building. Back home at headquarters in Wisconsin, the entire JCI campus (consisting of 4 buildings) is LEED Platinum certified. Two existing buildings with a combined 160,000 square feet were renovated for the corporate headquarters, and three new buildings were constructed. LEED details include natural lighting, landscaping 33 aces in native plants, water retention zones for run-off, and 12,000 square feet of green roof (which absorbs precipitation, which reduces runoff, insulates the building, and extends the life of the roof).

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Architect: GenslerLEED Date: 2010Square Footage: 306,359ft2

Johnson Controls Inc. HQGlendale, Wisconsin

Photo credits: Arch Storage

Platinum

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