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Project of the Week: Washington Public Utility Districts Association
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Buildings represent 39 percent of U.S. primary energy use... |
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What is LEED?
by WPUDA Staff
...The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System is a nationally accepted benchmark for the the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings....Since the U.S. Green Building Council first published LEED...
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PUDs, suppliers help WPUDA go for the Platinum
by WPUDA Staff
When...WPUDA...decided to "go for the Platinum"...members stepped up...REC Silicon of Moses Lake...agreed to contribute $250,000 worth of solar panels...a number of other businesses also stepped up...Mountain Construction...Helix Design Group...Sitts & Hill Engineers...
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Few realize buildings' impact on environment
by WPUDA Staff
Only 7 percent of those to responded to a recent survey...identified buildings as the No. 1 cause of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Seattle Daily Journal of CommerceWednesday, September 19 2007 by Journal Staff
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Monday, Sept 3, 2007 by Steven M. Herppich
Mountain Construction workers...install some of the 160 solar panels to be placed on the new Washington Public Utility Districts Association headquarters...
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Monday, August 20, 2007 by Hilary Maynard
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 by Katie Semtseff
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Green projects, such as the Washington Public Utility Districts
Association headquarters in Olympia, inspired the editor of The Guide to
add green building information. The PUD project, going for LEED
platinum, is on the current cover of The Guide.
WONDERING WHERE to find eco-friendly flooring or a subcontractor who has experience with green systems? The Guide, a local construction pricing source, has added that information...
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Friday, July 27, 2007 by Journal Staff
Mountain Construction is building what it says will be the first LEED platinum building in the state: a 11,000-square-foot headquarters for the Washington Public Utility Districts Association at 210 Union Ave. in Olympia, near the Capital campus.
More than 160 photovoltaic solar panels on the roof will provide 40 percent of the building's energy...
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Monday, June 18, 2007 by John Dodge
OLYMPIA - A new office building design to earn the highest green building rated ever awarded in Washington is under construction near downtown Olympia.
If all goes as planned, the new headquarters for the Washington Public Utility Districts Association will receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating of platinum from the United States Green Building Council...
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Summer 2007, by Dean Boyer
As soon as construction workers began framing the second floor of the new Washington Public Utility Districts Association headquarters building in Olympia, officials popped on hard hats and climbed up to check the view.
From a small cantilevered conference room at the front of the building they could see the dome of the state Capital...
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July-December 2007 Edition
Mountain Construction Design-Build Team Targets LEED Platinum for Utility District Association Headquarters.
WPUDA is a private, non-profit association whose members are Washington State's 28 community owned public utilities...
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