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Santa Monica-based LivingHomes has launched the C6.2, an affordable prefab house that is certified LEED Platinum. Previously, LivingHomes had introduced the C6, an affordable three-bedroom home, but the company rolled out this smaller version for homeowners who want a smaller and more energy-efficient option. The sleek, two-bedroom, two-bathroom home is a good fit for smaller infill lots common in cities or for eco-conscious homeowners who want to save on construction and installation costs.
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Comcast’s Operations Center in Sonoma County just received one of the highest honors in green building — it was certified LEED Platinum this week by the USGBC. The Operations Center is part of The Sonoma Mountain Village, an ambitious zero-carbon, solar-powered development being constructed by Codding, a northern California real estate developer. The super green facility was designed from the ground up to have the smallest impact possible.
“The work of innovative building projects such as Sonoma Mountain Village is a fundamental driving force in the green building movement,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President of the U.S. Green Building Council. The Comcast Operations Center has about 150 employees, houses maintenance vehicles and has a huge warehouse. It is 100% powered by a 1 megawatt on-site array of solar panels and features advanced energy efficient lighting, low and no VOC finishes, recycled content carpet, bike storage and changing rooms, salvaged fencing and bathroom partitions, local materials and during construction the team diverted 98% of waste from the landfill. Pretty impressive overall.
What’s more impressive is that Comcast is just one of 41 companies that have moved into the zero carbon, solar powered Sonoma Mountain Village. Though the Operations Center is the only LEED Platinum structure, the entire community is planned to be as sustainable as possible. 1,694 private homes are slated to be constructed this year in the community. Codding’s vision is to create a neighborhood where work, food, and entertainment is within an easy walk from your home. All of this and no electricity bills? Sounds like a great plan to us.
Green Depot — the largest US green building supplier — just received New York State’s first LEED Platinum rating for a retail store for their flagship NYC location. The Depot — located at 222 Bowery in Manhattan — is your one stop shop for sustainable home repair, cleaning and supply. They’ve got everything from the greenest dishwasher fluid to the lowest flow toilets. Now to top it all off they’ve got a certified green structure for you to buy it in.
The Bowery location is one of Green Depot’s 10 retail and 10 warehouse locations across the east coast. The building the Depot is located in once held New York City’s first YMCA and then was home to a string of famous artists including Mark Rothko. While renovating the space the company worked closely with the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission to make sure the building retained some of its original structural elements — like the tiling from the YMCA pool. Along with the original restored features the building garnered LEED points with their indoor air quality, low VOC finishes, a high efficiency air handler and custom LED light fixtures among other great green building techniques.
“It’s consistent with a trend we’ve been seeing with green buildings—a real trickle-down of projects popping up not just from corporate leaders like Bank of America, but from mom-and-pop retailers, homeowners in Brooklyn or affordable housing projects in the Bronx,” said Russell Unger, executive director of the New York City chapter of the USGBC, Urban Green. The Green Depot’s space is a great example of how reusing the history of a location can lead you to a lot of LEED kudos.
Green buildings in British Columbia gained a lot of recent attention from the Winter Olympics that were held in Vancouver in February, and the province’s capital city, Victoria, has a LEED project of its own that is marking some Canadian firsts. Parkside Victoria is a downtown condominium and resort that was completed in July 2009 and is targeting LEED Platinum certification, which will make it Canada’s first LEED Platinum resort hotel. The green resort even offers a LEED tour of the facility!
Parkside Victoria, which was designed by the Hulbert Group, also includes features such as a spa, a 25-meter swimming pool, a fitness center and retail and office spaces. Two 8-story midrise blocks in the facility are connected by a wintergarden atrium filled with tropical plants recovered from the Crystal Garden building in Victoria.
The building lacks some of the more ostentatious accessories of some green buildings, although it does have 3000 square feet of vegetated roof covering the atrium of the building. Rainwater is collected and reused for irrigation, and sunshades and operable windows also aid with cooling. It also gets LEED points for being “one of the most energy-efficient, sustainable works of architecture in Canada,” and is able to eliminate rooftop cooling equipment by using the storm water storage tanks and landscape ponds as a heat sink.
Parkside Victoria is located in downtown Victoria, giving it easy access to the many downtown amenities in that city, including the nearby convention center and Victoria’s Inner Harbor area.
+ Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa
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