The 17 Seventeen and Park 17 project, designed by Good Fulton & Farrell Architects, is a development of a 13-story office tower and 19-story residential tower sited together on a single six-level parking garage podium with new retail construction wrapping three sides of the block. Equidistant from the Victory development and the Arts District, and sited at the crossroads of uptown and downtown, this project is arguably at the epicenter of the new Dallas urban landscape. The 17Seventeen office tower was Pre-Certified Gold by USGBC in January 2009 under the LEED CS rating system, and the Park 17 residential tower is pursuing LEED NC certification.

LEED SILVER CERTIFICATION

Corgan Associates, Inc., with offices in Dallas, New York, Phoenix, Beijing, Houston, and London, was recently awarded LEED Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for the design of their new corporate headquarters building. The nominal sixty thousand square foot three story facility is located in the heart of the City of Dallas West End historic district. The building was designed to contextually fit into the neighborhood, yet implement a modern sustainable facility incorporating green principles. The building design incorporated high percentages of recycled and regional materials, implemented sophisticated technological energy controls that optimizes and manages energy resources, included a rainwater collection system, implemented daylight harvesting strategies, included an efficient cool roofing system, integrated reduced heat island materials, provided light pollution reducing lighting fixtures, incorporated indigenous landscaping, included ultra water conserving fixtures, provided numerous views from the interior to the exterior, and diverted over seventy-five percent of the construction waste from landfills.

LEED SILVER CERTIFICATION

The Dallas Convention Center, located in the downtown Central Business District adjacent to the Dallas City Hall Municipal Plaza, has evolved since its inception through four phases of major construction into a large monolithic event complex with approximately 1 million square feet of exhibition space including a 203,000 square foot column-free exhibit hall and 724,726 square feet of additional contiguous exhibition space.  The 2.2 million gross square feet building is positioned with easy access from main interstates I-30, I-35E, and I-45, inner city infrastructure, and mass transportation lines.  A DART station with multiple light rail lines is part of the facility. 75 truck berths are provided for delivery of vendor, exhibit, or convention components into and from the facility.

The South Central Police Sub-Station is a 38,000 square foot state-of-the-art police facility set on a 10 acre greenfield site serving a rapidly growing working class suburb located approximately 15 miles south of downtown Dallas, Texas.  The station facility, dedicated in October 2007, is the first new police station constructed in Dallas since a generation of “bunker” mentality structures built almost 20 years ago, and is envisioned as a prototype for a new public image signifying the structure as a “beacon of safety” and community center.  Consistent with City of Dallas sustainable goals, the station achieved U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification meeting the requirements of the LEED for New Construction Version 2.1 Rating System.  The facility contains first geothermal Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning system project for the City.  With this system, even considering that the station operates 24 hours of each day, the building is scheduled to achieve a 58% energy conservation savings over the LEED Rating System baseline regulatory requirements.