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Building Design & Energy Use
1. Building Design
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- Pittsburgh's 10 story, 175,000 square foot, Comstock
Building has half the normal energy costs of other large
office buildings in the city but cost $500,000 less to build.
- Johnson Control's LEED™ Gold-rated Brengel Technology
Center, in downtown Milwaukee, was built for roughly $125/square
foot - comparable with conventional, far less efficient
office buildings.
- Herman Miller commissioned William McDonough + Partners
to design a 295,000 square foot office, manufacturing and
distribution center in Holland, MI. The whole facility was
built at $45/square foot -- paying for itself through the
increases in worker productivity alone. Additionally, natural
gas costs decreased 7%, water and sewer costs decreased
65% and electrical costs decreased 18% in the new building.
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Thoughtful building design creates a uniform and inviting sense
of place for employees and customers.
- Ensure that the scale and design of new buildings are compatible
with adjacent buildings. At pedestrian areas of the building,
use awnings, landscaping, windows and doors to lower the scale
of the building. See
Appendix.
- Design a principal facade and obvious entrance parallel to
the street edge. Do not face blank walls towards public streets.
- Utilize brick (reclaimed or new), architectural pre-cast concrete
panels, decorative concrete block or cut stone. Corrugated sheet
metal, vinyl siding, reflective glass and imitation stone siding
are discouraged.
- Screen sources of mechanical noise, odors and loading operations
from public open space areas and adjacent properties.
- Locate utility meters and exhaust vents on the side or rear
of building.
- Screen or locate roof-top mechanical equipment so it is not
visible from the street.
- Design to accommodate areas for recycling of waste materials.
Provide a centralized ground-floor location for collection and
storage of recyclables.
- Where possible, orient buildings along an east-west axis for
maximum daylighting benefits.
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