The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™, set up by the Green Building Council, "encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria."
"California continues to lead the nation in fighting climate change and this new central plant is leading by example to reduce our state's carbon footprint," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "It is very exciting that this new facility is being built to the gold standard."
The new plant does it's job using 10% of the water used in the old building and includes high-tech solutions to do the job of heating and cooling office space more efficiently. The new building even includes solar panels to provide energy for the offices located inside the building.
The new plant will be fully operational in May 2009.
Skanska USA Building Inc. has designed and is constructing the new central plant and working with Sacramento firm Nacht and Lewis Architects, Flack and Kurtz of San Francisco, Lawson Mechanical and Redwood City Electric, among others. The state's major consultants, on the project include Capitol Engineering Consultants Inc., Lionakis Beaumont Design Group and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., according to the Department of General Services.-GreenerBuildings.com
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