DENVER — UMB Bank Colorado , a chartered bank of UMB Financial Corporation, is building the second green here.
The roof will feature drought-resistant plants native to Colorado , including a blue spruce, the state tree.
The roof is designed to decrease the amount of rainwater runoff, and reduce water pollution and the urban heat effect.
SAN DIEGO — Mountain View-based software developer Intuit, producer of TurboTax and QuickBooks, among other products, will establish its regional headquarters at a new $40 million green campus in Carmel Valley.
The 690,000-square-foot site will house three four-story buildings that will incorporate sustainable design and construction features, and Intuit will seek LEED certification for the project, officials say.
HOLIDAY, Fla. — Creative Contractors Inc. was awarded a $14 million contract by the Pasco County School District to build the county’s first green school.
The builders of the 93,000-square-foot Gulf Trace Elementary School will strive to create a healthy indoor environment through the use of low-VOC paints, sealants and adhesives, and wood products without added urea-formaldehyde, a type of adhesive resin used in pressed wood.
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the greenest cities in the country now has a task force in place that will focus on increasing the number and quality of sustainable buildings in the area.
The Green Building Task Force, assembled by Mayor Gavin Newsom as part of his Clean and Green Initiative and Climate Action Plan, is responsible for developing expanded green building standards for all new private construction projects in San Francisco .
WASHINGTION — An American Institute of Architects committee that focuses on sustainable design released the 2007 selections for the top 10 green projects, which include a university research center, a U.S. Courthouse and a water purification facility.
The Committee on the Environment released its selections for the program that started in 1997 in conjunction with Earth Day and the projects were honored May 3 at the American Institute of Architects National Convention in San Antonio .
H. Jay Enck, LEED AP, principal and founder of Commissioning & Green Building Solutions, has executed the commissioning process for more than $1 billion worth of construction projects. But, his approach for commissioning at schools, offices and several other building types goes beyond standard commissioning procedures by examining the design process and re-evaluating buildings years after they are completed.
Air Cycle offers the Bulb Eater fluorescent bulb crushing system to meet disposal needs. The OSHA- and EPA-compliant units are designed to make disposal and recycling processes more efficient, improving bulb storage, handling and safety/liability issues. The fully contained Bulb Eater system crushes spent bulbs in seconds, compacting them into specially designed 55-gallon containers. It uses a two-stage filtration process that captures 99.99 percent of released mercury vapor and particulate matter.
Stero introduces the Ecorinse series of conveyor warewashers, high-temperature systems that use less water and energy to operate. The series uses a two-stage final rinse system, consisting of 1/4-horsepower motor pumps at 165 degrees and 20psi of 180-degree water. It uses 18,000 watts less of electrical current than standard washers to maintain the final rinse.
The number of clean racks produced per hour with Erorinse is 10 percent more than the current Stero model, and gallons of water used during the final rinse is reduced by 59 percent from current models.
