Projects: Industrial

Household Chemicals and Electronics Recycling Center - 10/1/2007
Many cities have household waste recycling programs for paper, cardboard, plastic, and aluminum. But what about old paint, used antifreeze, fertilizer, your broken cell phone collection, or that Commodore 64 you've been saving for the grandkids? Last November, Chicago opened the $3.8 million 24,000-sf Household Chemicals and Electronics Recycling Center on the rehabilitated site of an old city ...

GM assembly plant takes green design to the mega-level - 11/1/2006
Talk about “green” on a grand scale. In August, General Motors officially opened its massive, LEED Gold-rated Lansing (Mich.) Delta Township Assembly Plant. The $1.5 billion mega-project, which spans 2.4 million sf and houses 3,000 employees when in full production, is the largest manufacturing facility—and the only automotive manufacturing plant in the world—to achieve...

Building Team Awards, ImaginOn: Children's Center A Whimsical Wonderland - 5/1/2006
In the heart of downtown Charlotte, N.C., just blocks from Hearst Tower and adjacent to the new NBA Bobcats Arena, sits an oasis for children—a whimsical wonderland that brings together under one roof two local entities that have been telling stories to kids for more than half a century. Aptly named ImaginOn, the $28 million, 160,000-sf children's center is the creation of the Children's ...

A 'People Facility' - 5/1/2005
Had it not been for the commitment of the owner and the sensitivity of the locally based Building Team, Denver's new Elati Light Rail Maintenance Facility could easily have become just another dark and dreary industrial maintenance facility. Instead, the team—architecture firm RNL Design, project manager and planner Maintenance Design Group, structural and M/E engineer Carter Burgess, and...

Beyond Borderline - 2 new GSA Border Stations - 11/1/2004
About 200 miles southeast of Calgary along Interstate 15, the Port of Entry facility in Sweet Grass, Mont., and Coutts, Alta., is one of the busiest border crossing stations in North America, processing 1.3 million travelers and 413,000 commercial shipments each year. Dedicated this past September, the 100,000-sf, six-building complex is the nation's first LEED-registered border station, incorp...

New Shade of Federalism - 11/1/2004
The General Services Administration's great architectural awakening came 10 years ago, with the implementation of its Design Excellence Program. In recent years, sustainable design has become a primary component of design excellence in GSA projects. Since 2003, the GSA has required all its buildings to receive certification (or, better still, a Silver rating) through the U.

Gold Rush - 11/1/2004
Although they serve vastly different functions, two recently completed GSA leased buildings share a common characteristic. They were initially designed to meet Silver-level requirements of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating program. But in each case, the developer raised the bar.