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Snapshot: Liberty Green Community Center
Liberty Green Community Center (Photo courtesy Steve Wiser)
Here’s a photo-update of the under-construction Liberty Green Community Center on the corner of Jefferson and Jackson Streets. The building is Louisville Metro Housing Authority’s first LEED registered building. The first three photos are just under a month old, so there’s likely more brick showing today, but I wanted to get these online before it was hopelessly too late. Three more photos after the click show progress in mid-December.
PrintNorton Commons Building Awarded LEED Gold Certification
CMTA Building Awarded LEED Gold (Courtesy CMTA)
An office building in Norton Commons has been awarded LEED Gold certification indicating the building has achieved the second highest level of sustainability as tracked by the United States Green Building Council. Located at 10411 Meeting Street, CMTA Engineering Consultants has been a leader in sustainable design and now has an exemplary building to demonstrate their commitment to green design.
CMTA’s building achieved certification in late October and received 50 LEED points, only two shy of the highest Platinum level. After going through the certification process, CMTA says they have the experience and knowledge to achieve Platinum status on future projects.
Some of the green features of the two-story, 20,000 square foot building include sun shades on the buildings facade, flat fabric thin film solar panels on the building’s white roof (see photo after the click), and Solar Tube interior lighting devices. Solar power is expected to account for 10 to 15 percent of the structure’s annual energy usage. The structure was built with insulated concrete forms (ICFs) in which concrete is poured into insulating Styrofoam forms. Geothermal heating and cooling has been incorporated as well as a custom designed LED lighting scheme, although most of the light used in the building is natural light.
The structure is located near the Norton Commons town center and has been designed to reflect local architecture from the 19th century. Broken into three differentiated components, the building contains three facades reflecting two townhouses and a commercial building and represents the first commercial building in Norton Commons to include sustainable concepts.
CMTA hopes to use the building to test the efficiency and effectiveness of many of the systems installed in the building to create better sustainable buildings in the future.
[ Editor's Note: Updated the total number of LEED v2.2 points earned by the project (12.9.2009). ]
Snapshot: Clinical & Translational Research Building Opens
Clinical & Translational Research Building
The University of Louisville’s latest addition to the Medical Center officially opened its doors to researchers in October, revealing a state-of-the-art research facility on the corner of Hancock Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Designed by Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc. of Louisville and SmithGroup of Detroit, the new 6-story, 287,000 square foot Clinical & Translational Research Building is LEED registered and awaiting approval of official designation as a sustainable building.
A new 1,700 spot parking garage directly east of the new research building has been designed by JRA Architects of Louisville and reflects the architecture and mass of its neighbor. Retail space along Muhammad Ali Boulevard has been included in the garage, but we haven’t heard of any signed tenants yet.
The streetscape surrounding both the Clinical & Translational Research Building and the parking garage provides ample sidewalk space and a plaza on Hancock Street and Madison Street. Large planters in front of the garage combined with a setback retail frontage help to create one of the most engaging parking garage facades in the city. Here’s a statement from the University:
“The Center for Translational Research provides state-of-the-art biomedical research facilities to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists and researchers. The building is the new home for many of the researchers connected to the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, as well as others in pharmacology and toxicology and other areas. The facility provides much-needed research space as UofL continues to grow its research program on the health sciences campus.”
Liberty Green Community Center LEED-Registered
Liberty Green Community Center (by Brandstetter Carroll courtesy Lou Metro Housing Authority)
Construction at the Liberty Green development east of Downtown is a familiar site by now, but one building going up on the corner of Jefferson and Jackson Streets caught my eye. What distinguishes this structure from others built at Liberty Green is the blue Styrofoam form construction seen on the perimeter walls into which concrete is poured resulting in a strong and energy efficient building.
It turns out the Liberty Green Community Center is LEED-registered and represents the Louisville Metro Housing Authority‘s first structure going for the USGBC’s Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design certification. The Romanesque-style structure designed by Brandstetter Carroll‘s Louisville office will feature geothermal heating and cooling, a light colored roof to reflect excessive sun, and energy efficient appliances, lighting, and windows. Pervious pavers will be installed in its parking lot to help with rainwater runoff and recharge the water table.
Included in the two-story, 15,000 square foot Community Center are a community room, kitchen, classrooms, offices, and eight public housing units. The stylistic choice of the more monumental Romanesque will help to differentiate the structure from surrounding residential buildings modeled after traditional and vernacular neighborhood styles found throughout Louisville. Construction is expected to be complete in the Spring of 2010.
East Market Architecture Office Goes For Green
Tucker Booker Donhoff and Partners, Architects Offices
Green building in Louisville seems to be on the upswing in recent years. Several projects either have or are in line for LEED certification, including the LEED Silver registered research building on Hancock Street, the Legacy Lofts on Main Street, GBBN offices on Main Street, and the LEED Platinum Green Building on Market Street. Several announced and underway projects are also lining up to be LEED contenders including the Whiskey Row Lofts, the Medical Center Mega-Garage (it’s definitely huge, but it’s also green?), and a handful of other U of L projects. Several buildings just outside Louisville have received Silver and Platinum LEED Certification as well.
Another LEED Certified project to be completed recently is also in the East Market Street Corridor, soon to be known more for its green architecture than its galleries. The new offices of Tucker, Booker, Donhoff, and Partners, Architects sits mid-block between Clay and Shelby Streets represents the firm’s first “green experiment” and has been operating for more than a year. How has the eco-experiment gone so far for the firm? We went inside for a look around the office to find out.
LEED Certified Plaque
- Tucker, Booker, Donhoff, and Partners, Architects (Official Site)
- Pre-Construction: Inside The Whiskey Row Lofts (Broken Sidewalk)
- Legacy Lofts Wins Sustainability Award (Broken Sidewalk)
- Bio-Medical Research Building Nearly Done (Broken Sidewalk)
- Going For Platinum: Gallery NuLu’s Green Building (Broken Sidewalk)
- Development Watch: Even More Medical Center Mega-Garage (Broken Sidewalk)
Find out what makes this office building so green after the click. (Photos, too!)
Going for Platinum: Gallery NuLu’s Green Building
Gallery NuLu Green Building
The Consuming Louisville blog just pointed out the imminent opening of Louisville’s first LEED Platinum Registered commercial building: the Gallery NuLu Green Building. The 110 year old former dry goods store has been re-envisioned as a hub for the arts by owners Augusta and Gill Holland.
“The 15,000 square foot mixed use facility will house a street facing café and event space on the ground floor, office studios on the upper two floors and an indoor-outdoor courtyard at the rear… The gallery can, in off-hours show video-projected indie films. The Green Building of Nulu has over eighty solar panels providing almost 15,000 watts of electricity, not to mention the geothermal heating and cooling.”
The Gallery NuLu Green building serves as the centerpiece to the ultra creative and quickly gentrifying East Village, and will soon be joined by additional projects proposed by Gill Holland including redevelopment of the former Wayside Block into an arts center and Disney Tire Company into a year round indoor farmer’s market. Architecture for Gallery NuLu Green Building was provided by (fer) studio of Inglewood, California.
- Opening Soon: The Green Building (Consuming Louisville)
- The Green Building of NuLu (Official Site)
- Gallery NuLu (Official Site)
- (fer) studio (Official Site)
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