Watch: NASA’s first LEED Gold certification
The Flight Projects Center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the first NASA building to earn LEED Gold certification.
Tue, Dec 22 2009 at 3:00 PM EST
In 2008, NASA created a new mandate that all newly constructed NASA buildings will need to attain, at minimum, a LEED Silver rating. The Flight Projects Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was built on a LEED Silver budget but earned LEED Gold certification. The Flight Projects Center is the first LEED Gold title for the space agency.
Several green building measures were implemented to earn this rating including a living roof, reduced light pollution from outdoor lighting, low-flow plumbing, a smart heating and cooling system, and the use of green cleaning products by the janitorial staff.
In this video, Peter Jones, Facilities Manager at JPL and Dan Heinfeld, President of LPA Design Firm, discuss the green building design features as well as the importance of attaining LEED certification for the Flight Projects Center.
Photo: NASA
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ruzzel01
02/10/2010 13:34 PM
LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. gold parties
