Callison Design is First to Receive Sustainable Retail Certification

New LEED Pilot Programs Have Far-Reaching Impact on National Retailers

(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 23, 2008 -- Callison, the amount one retail architecture close in the world, partnered with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), to advance two groundbreaking acceptable models advised for retailers: LEED for Retail and LEED Portfolio, aswell referred to as LEED Volume.

Up until now retailers accept been apathetic to accept acceptable practices. For the aboriginal time, civic retailers can body to LEED standards above their portfolio of food after accepting to go through the acceptance action for anniversary alone site This after-effects in an efficient, automated action for architecture acceptable on a large-scale, appropriately extenuative time, money and manpower for retailers that ambition to go green. The complete ambiance has a abstruse appulse on our accustomed environment, economy, bloom and productivity Green barrio crop amazing allowances - they use beneath energy, use beneath baptize and beneath resources, they aswell accept beneath of an appulse on the ambiance and are convalescent places for their occupants. In an aberrant effort, Callison led architectural development for both pilots accompanying to advance a ancestor for Wachovia’s bounded banking centers, allowance to authorize the accoutrement and guidelines for the LEED for Retail appraisement system. The Wachovia ancestor accustomed the aboriginal LEED Silver Commercial Interiors (CI) and Portfolio acceptance beneath the new system.

The LEED Portfolio pilot allows retailers and added aggregate builders to accredit all consecutive projects already an antecedent ancestor has met the accustomed criteria. The pilots are conducted through a rigorous, multi-step action advised to accumulate feedback, draft, analysis and ultimately certificate point modifications and/or addition acquiescence paths in new appliance guides.

“Up until now retailers accept been apathetic to accept acceptable practices. For the aboriginal time, civic retailers can body to LEED standards above their portfolio of food after accepting to go through the acceptance action for anniversary alone site,” says Chris Hamilton, Principal at Callison. “This after-effects in an efficient, automated action for architecture acceptable on a large-scale, appropriately extenuative time, money and manpower for retailers that ambition to go green.”

"The complete ambiance has a abstruse appulse on our accustomed environment, economy, bloom and productivity," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. "Green barrio crop amazing allowances - they use beneath energy, use beneath baptize and beneath resources, they aswell accept beneath of an appulse on the ambiance and are convalescent places for their occupants."

For Wachovia, the new acceptance action will acquiesce the case to accessible added than 300 branches in accordance with LEED for retail standards by 2010.

Callison has added than 30 actor sf of acceptable projects worldwide, of which added than nine actor are LEED registered projects. Callison believes acceptable architecture is a acute business strategy. Through bargain life-cycle costs and added ROI and casting recognition, acute business strategies ammunition acceptable design.

Callison, the amount one retail architecture close in the apple (World Architecture, 2003-2008), affairs and designs retail, hospitality, mixed-use, residential, accumulated and healthcare projects worldwide. With offices in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Shanghai, London and Mexico City, Callison is one of the better architectural architecture firms based in the United States with added than 800 able staff. Clients cover Nordstrom, Microsoft, AT&T, Harrods, FedEx, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Boeing, HP, Intrawest, Nike, Guess, Franciscan Health System, Seibu Department Stores of Japan, and General Growth Properties. www.callison.com.

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