Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Woodland Corporate Center building gets LEED gold certification - Sacramento Business Journal:

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The building, which opened early last year, was designed and buily to meet the second highest ranking ofthe Council’s Leadershio in Energy and Environmental Design. was the generall contractor. Liberty Property Trust Vice Presidentg Jody Johnston estimates the cost of building to greeh standards added an additional 5 percentg to the overalldevelopment costs, but that will be more than offseyt by lower energy costs.
Special features includw showers and lockers for workers who need to wash or changde clothes after they bike or jog to A deck made of recycled plasti borders the back of the overlooking a wetlands area that provides Landscapingincorporates drought-resistant plants native to Florida. A white reflective roof deflectssthe sun. Bins for recycling are placedc near trash binsfor accessibility. Restroom urinals conserve watef by relying on gravithy and a filter insteadof water. That featurr is expected to save 360,000 gallons annually sinces each urinal uses anestimatedc 40,000 gallons annually, Johnston Grass surrounding the parking lot soak s up rainwater.
And Flexi-pave, a recycled rubber, was used insteads of asphalt around the large oak trees that line the The porous rubber allowse water to soak intothe ground. The building, located at 4631 Woodland Blvd., received the “Offices Building of the Year” Award from the Tampa Bay Chapterr of the andthe “Green Building Desig Award” from the Hillsborough City-County Plannin Commission in Tampa. Liberty (NYSE: LRY) has developee and leased 19 buildings with nearly 1 milliohn square feet of space in the parksince 1996. Key park tenantws include , Travelers, Travel and .

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