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U.S. FDA BUILDING ONE PROJECT RECEIVES LEED® GOLD CERTIFICATION
Rockville, MD – Grunley Construction Company, Inc. is pleased to announce that its work on the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) renovation of Building One on the consolidated White Oak, Maryland campus of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has earned a U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® NC 2.0 Gold certification. GSA’s team of Tishman Construction Corporation of Maryland, architects/engineers KlingStubbins in association with RTKL, and Grunley exceeded the project’s goal of Silver and attained the higher Gold standard.
The renovation of this 100,000 SF structure included saving the core, shell and finishes in the major spaces and vertical circulation and significant reuse of building elements and components such as the reuse of the exterior brick and limestone walls and salvage and re-use of the existing monumental stairs in a new location. The existing single pane windows were replaced with insulated, low-E glass units encased in 100% recycled steel frames. Also, Building One is now connected to a campus operation plant that is designed to save energy by recycling energy from one component of the system to another.
During the project, Grunley monitored all subcontractors’ use of low VOC materials which had been specified throughout the building including paint, sealants, adhesives and carpet. Grunley acquired extra LEED points by diverting over 82% of onsite generated construction waste from landfills and using over 22% of total building materials that were manufactured using recycled materials.
Grunley Construction has nine other LEED projects currently under construction. The firm is ranked by Engineering News Record among the "Top Green Contractors" in the United States.
Date Posted: February 23, 2010