Group 70 International has auspiciously adapted the additional attic of Honolulu Chinatown's 102-year-old McCandless Building into an archetype of the accomplished akin of sustainability. The firm's additional attic autogenous advance project, which includes several of its agents offices, accepted areas and afresh opened acceptable architecture center, has accustomed the Platinum akin of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Commercial Interiors (CI) acceptance from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Group 70 International's additional attic appointment LEED acceptance demonstrates amazing blooming architecture leadership The coercion of USGBC's mission has challenged the industry to move faster and ability added than anytime before, and Group 70 serves as a prime archetype with just how abundant we can accomplish. Group 70's additional attic advance demonstrates that you can accomplish LEED Platinum acceptance in a celebrated architecture amplitude at an affordable price
Honolulu (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 21, 2009 -- Group 70 International has auspiciously adapted the additional attic of Honolulu Chinatown's 102-year-old McCandless Building into an archetype of the accomplished akin of sustainability. The firm's additional attic autogenous advance project, which includes several of its agents offices, accepted areas and afresh opened acceptable architecture center, has accustomed the Platinum akin of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Commercial Interiors (CI) acceptance from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Group 70's 2nd attic autogenous advance activity includes its new acceptable architecture center.
It is the aboriginal LEED Platinum CI activity in Hawai'i.
"Group 70 International's additional attic appointment LEED acceptance demonstrates amazing blooming architecture leadership," said Rick Fedrizzi, USGBC president, CEO and founding chair. "The coercion of USGBC's mission has challenged the industry to move faster and ability added than anytime before, and Group 70 serves as a prime archetype with just how abundant we can accomplish."
"Group 70's additional attic advance demonstrates that you can accomplish LEED Platinum acceptance in a celebrated architecture amplitude at an affordable price," said Charles Kaneshiro, AIA, arch at Group 70. "As a baton in acceptable development, it is important for Group 70 to convenance what we preach. Our acceptable architecture centermost helps us to brainwash audience and leaders in the association about sustainability in a actual sense, accouterment a area to see and blow a array of acceptable development articles and technologies accessible today. By accomplishing LEED Platinum acceptance for our additional floor, we are demonstrating that the accomplished accepted is possible, all at a aggressive price. This counters a accepted delusion that it costs added to do a advance application acceptable and blooming concepts."
The advance of the 5,700-square-foot additional attic amplitude took about seven months, completed at a amount of $84 per aboveboard foot. By comparison, acceptable autogenous renovations can amount about $200 per aboveboard foot. Environmentally acquainted design, accurate planning and actual alternative are just a few of the aspects that factored into chargeless Platinum certification.
Historic barrio generally actualize their own obstacles for affair avant-garde LEED standards. For example, reusing absolute abstracts is a challenge. Still, Group 70 was able to reclaim 60 percent of absolute materials, including portions of the walls, exoteric windows, flooring, lights and the air-conditioning system. The close bargain electrical and baptize acceptance by retrofitting accessories and replacing 90 percent of the appointment accessories with Energy Star versions. The close aswell acclimated abounding articles fabricated from recycled or rapidly renewable materials, such as recycled agreeable carpet, carpeting tiles and appointment chairs, and abstracts fabricated from reeds and bamboo.
Group 70's acceptable architecture center, opened in January, is a absolute ability centermost and showroom, accouterment audience and baddest association groups with absolute acceptance to acceptable technologies, a aggregation of ecology articles that are now available, and the ability of the firm's 33 LEED Accredited Professionals.
Group 70's added called LEED certified and registered projects include:
- Hawai'i Baptist Academy Middle School -- LEED Gold New Construction (NC) Version 2.1 Group 70 Interior Design Studio -- LEED Silver CI Pilot Program Halau Ho'olako Community Resource Center (Kanu O Ka 'Aina) -- Registered beneath LEED NC Kauai Community Federal Credit Union -- Registered beneath LEED NC Waikoloa Kings' Land Clubhouse - Registered beneath LEED NC University of Hawai'i Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education -- Registered beneath LEED NC/Labs 21 Honolulu Waldorf School - Registered beneath LEED CI University of Hawai'i Translational Science Laboratory - Registered beneath LEED CI
The USGBC's LEED affairs is the a lot of accustomed acceptance affairs for acceptable building. LEED is a performance-based affairs that awards development and architecture accompanying projects four levels of accomplished acceptance barnacle on activity ability and acceptable architecture practices. Based on the amount of credits accomplished for anniversary chic of the program, the activity is again awarded a akin of acceptance alignment from Certified, Silver, Gold and (the accomplished level) Platinum.
Founded in 1971 in Honolulu, Group 70 International, Inc. is an award-winning close specializing in acceptable development, architecture, planning and ecology services, autogenous architecture and assets management. Group 70 is accepted for avant-garde designs and cultural and ecology acuteness in association accord building. For added information, appointment group70int.com.
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