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The Empire State Building in New York City is one of the tallest and most well-known LEED-certified buildings, certified as an LEED Gold existing building. [194] Around 2010, the Empire State Building underwent a $550 million renovation, including $120 million towards energy efficiency and eco-friendliness. [195]
It was renovated and expanded in the summer of 2013 and is LEED certified at the gold level. [34] Goddard-Hodgkins Hall 1950 Named after Cecil Goddard '29 and Theodore Hodgkins '25. Known as Go-Ho by students, it is the former Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house. It was renovated and expanded in 2010 and is a LEED-gold-certified building. [34 ...
LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), where "LEED" stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a United States–based rating system that integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building into a national system for neighborhood design. LEED certification provides independent, third-party ...
The Heritage Place is a 14-story office building in Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos and the first LEED certified building in Nigeria. [1] The building comprises 14 floors of approximately 15,736sqm of office space and 350 parking bays. It was completed on 15 February 2016 and it currently has a tenancy level of 91%.
A LEED Gold certified Dining Hall with a green roof and rainwater reclamation systems. [ 216 ] [ 217 ] The location of the Oaks was chosen in part to attract more non-students from off campus as a way of reducing costs for students and increasing community engagement . [ 218 ]
In 2013, The Washington Examiner analyzed energy efficiency data of New York City buildings and found that LEED-certified buildings actually performed worse than buildings in general. [8] An analysis by USA Today found that building makers target LEED's easiest points—those that do not necessarily increase the energy efficiency of a building. [9]
The Green Building is a building located in the East Market District (NuLu) of Louisville, Kentucky. It is Louisville's first commercial Platinum LEED certified building, and Kentucky's first Platinum LEED adaptive reuse structure. The building, designed by Los Angeles architecture firm (fer) studio, was awarded Platinum certification in 2010.
The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY became the first LEED certified green museum in 2008, followed by The Brooklyn Children's Museum, who achieved the LEED Silver certification in 2010. In addition, this museum used rapidly renewable and recycled features such as bamboo and recycled rubber flooring to construct the building as well as used ...