Tag: LEED Platinum
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Florida Contractor Builds the First Luxury Net Zero Energy Home
Marc Rutenberg, the CEO of the Florida company Marc Rutenberg Homes, has recently successfully designed and built a luxury home that complies with and even surpasses all Energy Star standards and is LEED Platinum certified. The Castaway III, as the house is called, measures 4,552-square feet, which is about 3,100 square feet larger than the…
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Georgetown Rowhouse Renovation Becomes LEED Platinum Showpiece
In the heart of a densely populated Washington, D.C. neighborhood that has easy access to public transportation and bicycle routes, this historically-protected Georgetown rowhouse (circa 1800s) received a restoration treatment that brought it into the 21st century and helped it to achieve LEED Platinum certification. Environmentally sustainable modifications to the 3,300 square foot home came in…
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No jive Tofurky
Tofurky, the 33-year-old maker of the widely recognized line of meat-free, meat-like products, has cooked up the second LEED Platinum food processing facility in the country, and the sixth such facility in the world. Turtle Island Foods’ new $10 million, 33,000-square-foot plant in the outdoorsy Columbia River Gorge community of Hood River, OR, was constructed using 80…
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Net Zero BARNagain Uses Reclaimed Barn Wood to Achieve LEED Platinum
Dubbed BARNagain, this LEED Platinum-certified home was designed by Rick Hauser of In.Site:Architecture to meet the client’s request for an energy-efficient house that utilized materials from a deteriorating barn for its structure and skin. The main structural elements of the home were built using timber frames, while reclaimed barn siding served as the exterior skin.…
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AIA Colorado Legacy Project Builds LEED Platinum Habitat for Humanity Home
In 2011, the Denver chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) partnered with CAD-1, Inc. to administer a design-build competition for a home that would be built for Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity in Kittredge, Colorado. The winning design of a duplex was submitted by Molly Blakley, Assoc. AIA; Alan Ford, AIA; Kathy Ford,…