Sunday, December 20, 2009

Nationals Park Achieves LEED Silver Certification

Nationals Park, the nation's greenest ballpark, is the aboriginal Major League Stadium in the country to accomplish LEED milestone.

Washington, DC -- It's official: Nationals Park is the nation's greenest ballpark. The activity accustomed LEED® Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, authoritative it the aboriginal above amphitheater in the United States to accomplish LEED Certification. LEED is a point-based arrangement area projects acquire credibility for acceptable specific blooming architecture criteria. This activity congenital abundant blooming architecture elements to authorize it for a college akin of certification.

Creating a blooming ballpark was as axiological as any claim if we absitively to commence on this mission to body a new accompaniment of the art amphitheater for the Washington Nationals We are aflame to set the ecology accepted for the blow of the antic apple and we are acutely appreciative of this accomplishment for the District of Columbia. Beginning with Camden Yards 15 years ago, HOK Sport has been accepted for its addition in ballpark design And because the architecture aggregation had to actually coin a new aisle in designing a blooming ballpark, it has accurate its avant-garde means already again. HOK formed carefully with the USGBC to acquisition artistic means to absorb environmentally affable architecture concepts In the end, we were able to actualize a ballpark that not alone preserves our adored environment, but it aswell preserves the history and traditions of baseball in the nation's capital The accomplished architecture aggregation went aloft and above the alarm by accomplishing LEED Silver Certification - it's like we asked them for a home run and we got a admirable slam. By extenuative millions of gallons of water, application able acreage lighting, abacus a blooming roof and accumulation recycling at the ballpark, Nationals Park is a lot greener than just its arena field.

"Creating a blooming ballpark was as axiological as any claim if we absitively to commence on this mission to body a new accompaniment of the art amphitheater for the Washington Nationals," said DC Sports and Entertainment Commission CEO Gregory A. O'Dell. "We are aflame to set the ecology accepted for the blow of the antic apple and we are acutely appreciative of this accomplishment for the District of Columbia."

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a appraisement arrangement that was advised by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to adviser and analyze top achievement barrio that accept beneath of an appulse on the environment, are convalescent for those who use the architecture and are added assisting than their accepted counterparts.

The USGBC originally created the LEED Certification action to advance environmentally amenable architecture in such barrio as offices, schools and hospitals. Design close HOK managed the LEED Certification process.

"Beginning with Camden Yards 15 years ago, HOK Sport has been accepted for its addition in ballpark design," said Joe Spear, HOK Sport principal. "And because the architecture aggregation had to actually coin a new aisle in designing a blooming ballpark, it has accurate its avant-garde means already again."

Set abreast the Anacostia River, the ballpark's website dictated abundant of the access to LEED Certification. The ballpark rests on clay that already was contaminated. That clay was advised and replaced. Also, six massive beach filters active underground will accumulate ballpark washdown water, hot dog wrappers and added bits from communicable the river nearby. The ballpark aswell neighbors a array of accessible busline options, including rail, bike and bus routes.

"HOK formed carefully with the USGBC to acquisition artistic means to absorb environmentally affable architecture concepts," said Susan Klumpp, HOK's activity administrator and LEED affairs manager.

The ballpark accustomed 34 credibility against LEED Certification for such blooming architecture elements as:
 

    Using top ability acreage lighting, which will save 21 percent over archetypal acreage lighting. Installing baptize attention accouterments fixtures, which will save 3.6 actor gallons of baptize per year and abate all-embracing baptize burning by 30 percent. Using air-cooled chillers instead of water-cooled chillers will save addition 6 actor gallons of baptize per year. Placing 100 recycling bins for fan use throughout the ballpark. Using recycled abstracts in 20 percent of the ballpark's construction, and recycling 5,500 bags of architecture waste. Planting a 6,300 aboveboard bottom blooming roof aloft a concession/toilet across above larboard acreage to aggregate rain baptize and abbreviate roof calefaction gain. Creating signage about the ballpark highlighting the ballpark's environmentally affable aspects.
    "In the end, we were able to actualize a ballpark that not alone preserves our adored environment, but it aswell preserves the history and traditions of baseball in the nation's capital," said Stan Kasten, Team President of the Washington Nationals. "The accomplished architecture aggregation went aloft and above the alarm by accomplishing LEED Silver Certification - it's like we asked them for a home run and we got a admirable slam."

    About HOK Sport
    HOK Sport is one of the world's arch architecture firms - and the alone close in the apple committed alone to the architecture of antic venues. As designers of some of the world's a lot of identifiable sports and ball buildings, HOK Sport continues to ascertain a architecture blazon which has played an accretion role in establishing the architectural bolt of avant-garde cities. Their architects are the world's finest and a lot of experienced, cartoon from the accumulated ability of added than 825 projects with architecture amount beyond $20 billion. HOK Sport's applicant account is assorted and comprehensive; it includes 24 Major League Baseball franchises, 30 NFL franchises, 80 able and borough amphitheatre clients, 40 soccer and rugby teams and 120 colleges and universities. The close has accustomed added than 200 architecture awards, including three civic architecture awards from the American Institute of Architects. With offices in Brisbane, Australia; London, England; Beijing, China; Nashville, Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee; Denver, Colorado; and Kansas City, Missouri, their ability is worldwide.
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