LEED Platinum Office Building Opens in Nation's Capital Area

The Tower Companies, the largest green builder in the Nation's Capital area., together with Lerner Enterprises, Washington, D.C.'s largest private real estate developer, has developed 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard in Rockville, Md. The building combines the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Designed to Meet LEED Platinum criteria with the world's largest application of Fortune Creating Architecture, letting them make the claim that it is the "healthiest" building ever built.

Kishimoto, Gordon, Dalaya, PC (KGD), designed the structure in consultation with architect Jon Lipman with Fortune Creating Buildings which is built on the Vedic principals of orientation, placement and proportion, and determines how the building relates to the body, mind and the environment to improve the occupant's health, enhance job performance and success.

The 200,000-square-foot building's green efficiencies are designed to Earn Energy Star and reduce energy consumption by 41 percent. With its expansive glass curtainwall, 90 percent of occupants have outside views and 74 percent have natural daylight. Eighty percent of all electric equipment is Energy Star-rated, 50 percent of the materials are manufactured within a 500-mile radius and 75 percent of the construction waste is recycled.

The project has a total of 56,000 square feet of Viracon's VE1-42 insulating glass. Gardner Metal Systems, Acworth, Ga., and Armetco Systems, Dallas, supplied architectural metal product for the structure.

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