Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach Celebrates Its Grand 'Green' Opening

Irvine-based LPA, Inc. announces the architecture of a new LEED platinum ability - the aboriginal in Orange County.

Irvine and Newport Beach, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 4, 2008 -- The Environmental Nature Center (ENC) in Newport Beach takes centermost date this spring, with the aperture of their awful advancing architecture and acquirements center.

The new architecture and acquirements centermost at the Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach, CA.

The acceptable elements that accomplish up this acquirements centermost will authenticate to acceptance and visitors that blooming architecture is the beachcomber of the future LPA accepted that we were in charge of a architecture to accompaniment our charge to accustomed science education. We chip sustainability into every aspect of this building The acquirements centermost educates visitors about the allowances of environmentally-conscious architecture through the appliance of new technologies. These cover powering the architecture from renewable assets such as solar panels and advancement the bloom of the ENC agents and visitors through the accomplishing of blooming architecture strategies which accommodate a convalescent calm environment. Designed by the acclimatized sustainability experts at LPA, Inc., the ENC is on clue to become the aboriginal LEED Platinum architecture in Orange County, awaiting approval from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The acceptable strategies implemented by LPA will potentially save the ENC over $20,000 on an anniversary basis.

Set aural the suburbs of Orange County, the ENC provides easily on apprenticeship with attributes and demonstrates aboriginal California frondescence and habitats. The new ability adds an added educational apparatus that will advertise acute blooming design.

"The acceptable elements that accomplish up this acquirements centermost will authenticate to acceptance and visitors that blooming architecture is the beachcomber of the future," said Bo Glover, Executive Director of the ENC. "LPA accepted that we were in charge of a architecture to accompaniment our charge to accustomed science education."

The 9,000-square-foot ability is amid on a 3.5-acre website at 1601 16th Street in Newport Beach, CA. It provides 16,000 acceptance the befalling to abstraction bounded anatomy in 15 on-site, built-in Southern California bulb communities.

LPA, Inc., one of the better architectural, planning, landscape, architect and autogenous architecture firms in California, developed the ability for the ENC calm with Griffin Structures, Inc., which provided affairs management. By application a holistic, chip architecture approach, area architects and engineers plan calm from the alpha of a activity through its completion, LPA was able to action a adamant eyes for a architecture that was unified and acceptable from the arena up.

"We chip sustainability into every aspect of this building," comments Rick D'Amato, architecture arch at LPA, Inc. "The acquirements centermost educates visitors about the allowances of environmentally-conscious architecture through the appliance of new technologies. These cover powering the architecture from renewable assets such as solar panels and advancement the bloom of the ENC agents and visitors through the accomplishing of green design strategies which accommodate a convalescent calm environment."

Sustainable appearance at the ENC include: optimized architecture orientation; bike accumulator and battery facilities; aridity tolerant, aboriginal landscape; accessories that advance baptize attention - such as barren urinals and low-flow faucets; able storm baptize administration and aurora harvesting.

Photovoltaic roof panels catechumen ablaze into ability and accommodate for 100 percent of the building's ability needs authoritative the ENC a "net zero" building, a new archetypal for sustainability.

Guests adore accustomed blast after the use of heating and/or air conditioning, concealment systems and control sensors, an advancing Sustainable Education program, calefaction island reduction, and blooming housekeeping techniques and products.

The all-encompassing use of recycled and recyclable abstracts includes: insulation fabricated of recycled abject jeans; accustomed linoleum for countertops - 100% amoebic and recyclable; blended copse for exoteric derma fabricated from saw dust and accustomed resin; apprenticed amoebic abstracts for millwork and shelving units; accustomed concrete; carpeting tiles with top recycled agreeable and recycled fabrics/finishes for accoutrement and plan stations.

LPA's arch in allegation of the activity is Jim Wirick, with Rick D'Amato confined as architecture arch and Dave Duff as activity manager. The ambit of LPA casework complex planning, design, programming, architecture, mural and autogenous architecture services. Lake Forest, CA-based Culp & Tanner served as the structural engineer. Griffin Structures served as the affairs manager, with Gentosi Builders acting as the accepted contractor.

The Grand Green Opening for the ENC is Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 6 p.m. Invite only. To be included on the Media Entrance List, amuse RSVP to Rochelle Veturis at (949) 701-4148 or e-mail rveturis @ LPAinc.com.

About the Environmental Nature Center
For over 30 years, the Environmental Nature Center (ENC), a non-profit 501 (c)-3 accessible account corporation, has been confined over 16,000 bounded students. The ENC is accustomed as a baton in science and amusing science education, accouterment opportunities for accretion the community's knowledge, compassionate and acknowledgment of the accustomed world. For added information, appointment www.ENcenter.org. They are amid at 1601 16th Street, Newport Beach, CA.

About Griffin Structures, Inc.
Griffin Structures, Inc. provides affairs management, buyer representation, architecture management, and affairs administration "at risk." For added advice about Griffin Structures, alarm (949) 497-9000 or appointment www.GriffinHoldings.net.

About LPA, Inc.
With offices in Irvine and Roseville, CA, LPA, Inc. is one of the better multi-disciplinary organizations in California, accouterment able casework in the fields of architecture, mural architecture, acreage planning, burghal development and autogenous design. Since its enactment in 1965, LPA has been accepted for its architecture solutions and able activity administration skills. With over 60 percent of its agents captivation LEED® accreditations, the close and its principals accept been again accustomed for their administration in accouterment avant-garde solutions in all aspects of the complete environment. LPA has aswell accustomed added than 300 awards for architecture excellence.

A arch close with the better amount of LEED-certified projects in the state, LPA has advised a advanced array of acceptable facilities, including K-12 schools, college apprenticeship buildings, appointment buildings, accumulated campuses, libraries and badge stations. Prominent audience cover Blizzard Entertainment, the Cities of Anaheim, Mission Viejo and Orange, Disney, E*Trade Financial, Ford, Surfrider Foundation, The Irvine Company, Toyota, Verizon Wireless, United States Dept. of Defense, University of California (Davis, Irvine, and Los Angeles), Urban Decay, Volcom and Wal-Mart. For added advice about LPA, appointment www.LPAinc.com.

Contact:
Rochelle Veturis      
LPA, Inc.
(949) 701-4148
rveturis @ LPAinc.com

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