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When the Chicago Transit Authority put the finishing touches on its sparkling new, 12-story headquarters in late 2004, the 400,000-sf complex was already one of the greenest office buildings in the city.

The design and construction team for the Capitol Area East End Complex, Block 225, in Sacramento, faced tightened requirements of California's Title 24 energy code, frequent presentations to government bodies, and the need to integrate a public art program into the project.

Showplaces showcase Atlanta firm's defining niche

For Thomas Ventulett, winning the 2002 AIA Architecture Firm Award is the fruit of more than 35 years of labor. Most of that time, he has dedicated to building Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVS), Atlanta, from its humble beginnings as a three-person design studio to a 265-person, $59 million multidiscipline operation today.

         

               
For all the attention green buildings get these days, many fall woefully short of expectations when it comes to acoustical performance. Why?

In what U.S. Green Building Council president and CEO Rick Fedrizzi called a "huge refinement" to the LEED rating program, the Washington, D.C.-based organization announced sweeping enhancements to LEED in an effort to streamline the application and submittal process.

Fedrizzi made the announcement at the opening of the fourth annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, November 9–11, in Atlanta.

Although Yale University's bottom-line mandate to Building Teams is simply to achieve LEED certification for all new buildings, the true directive is to shoot for at least LEED Silver. Thus far, the Chemistry Research Building has hit the Silver mark, and Malone Center, at LEED Gold, has exceeded it. The Kroon Hall – School of Forestry & Environmental Studies building, currently under construction, should achieve LEED Platinum, and several other LEED-seeking projects are in the works on the New Haven, Conn., campus.