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LEED Platinum Projects

Charles David Keeling Apartments – Revelle College Housing

Charles David Keeling Apartments – Revelle College Housing

Sustainable Features

  • Passive solar building orientation and shading devices to take advantage of and control solar gain
  • Natural ventilation and cross ventilation in each apartment
  • High-performance exterior envelope
  • Daylighting optimization
  • Energy-efficient building systems
  • Water conservation with low-flow plumbing fixtures
  • High-albedo materials/finishes to reduce heat island effect on roofs
  • Rooftop photovoltaics infrastructure
  • Recycled and sustainable building materials
  • Bioswale landscape for storm water drainage and filtration
  • Drought-tolerant landscaping

Project Details

  • Project Manager: Charles Kaminski
  • Architect: Kieran Timberlake
  • Contractor: Swinerton Builders, Inc.
  • Completed: 2011

LEED Scorecard (PDF)

Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility II

Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility

Sustainable Features

  • High efficiency air handling system
  • Hybrid tempered air system for offices with operable windows
  • Recovered condensate water from air handling units used for irrigation and toilet flushing
  • Low flow plumbing fixtures
  • Dynamic exterior sun shade system
  • High albedo roof surface
  • Maximized day lighting in offices and laboratories

Project Details

  • Project Manager: Mark Rowland
  • Architect: Zimmer Gunsel Frasca Architect, LLC
  • Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
  • Completed: 2014

LEED Scorecard (PDF)

Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling Laboratory (MESOM)

Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling Laboratory (MESOM)

Sustainable Features

  • Shading devices to protect the glazing from the ocean/sun glare
  • Natural ventilation through operable windows into all portions of the building.
  • Central Chiller controls for the 4 Labs on the third floor using VFD's for high efficiency
  • Large windows facilitating natural Daylighting into all workspaces, conference rooms, offices and labs
  • Locally controlled task lighting
  • Hydronic heating system with local controls
  • Energy efficient glazing
  • Energy efficient building construction
  • Water conservation w/low use plumbing fixtures
  • High albedo materials/finishes to reduce heat island effect on roofs
  • Rooftop photovoltaics in addition to use of power generated from "green" sources
  • Recycled and sustainable building materials
  • FSC certified wood siding and shading materials
  • Bioswale landscape for storm water drainage and filtration
  • Native and Drought tolerant landscape materials

Project Details

  • Project Manager: Kathy Lord
  • Architect: THA Architecture, Inc.
  • Contractor: Rudolph & Sletten, Inc.
  • Completed: 2013

LEED Scorecard (PDF)

UCSD/SDSU Mission Bay Aquatic Center