David Brower Center | UC Berkeley
Named after the first director of the Sierra Club, the David Brower Center, on the University of California Berkeley campus, is on track to attain the LEED Platinum rating, the highest certification level in the U.S. Green Building Council LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™.
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The first building of its kind in Berkeley and one of fewer than 10 such buildings in Northern California, the David Brower Center has attained the LEED Platinum rating with a score of 55 out of 60 possible credits. LEED Platinum is the highest certification level in the U.S. Green Building Council LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™. The center is named after David Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club—considered by many the father of the modern environmental movement. On what used to be a parking lot, the new center stands on a prime parcel of land eight blocks from the house where David Brower was born and directly across the street from the University of California Berkeley campus. The Brower Center includes 24,000 useable square feet of office space on its top three floors and is home to a wide range of nonprofit groups working for environmental and social action View the entire case study (PDF)
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- http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200906/ 1245363728.html http://www.browercenter.org
Photo credits: Figure 1 ©Mark Darley, Figure 2 ©Kristan Lawson, Figure 3 ©Wausau
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