Just in time for Earth Day, Tamalpais Creek, a California senior living community, received LEED Silver certification from USGBC this month. This project was a first on many levels - it's the first LEED project for our client, Atria Senior Living, as well as the two contractors on our team.
"This major renovation, tenant-occupied from start to finish, shows real possibilities for green renovations in senior living. We're looking forward to applying lessons learned from this process to future projects where clients seek to modernize as well as upgrade energy and water use efficiency," said Principal and Director of Senior Housing, Jerry McDevitt.
The renovation re-used 93% of the existing building and 576 tons of construction waste were diverted from the landfill. Today, residents enjoy ample day lighting through energy efficient windows, controllable thermal comfort systems and native, drought-tolerant landscaping. For more details, check out the green case study.
GGLO provided architectural, interior and landscape design services for Tamalpais Creek, as well as conducting LEED administration. This latest accomplishment expands our large and rapidly growing list of projects that have acheived green building benchmarking standards, summarized below:
- 4,400 housing units designed to green benchmarking standards
- 5,750,000 gross square feet designed to green benchmarking standards
- 900 housing units LEED certified
- 1,500,000+ gross square feet LEED certified