LEED Silver, at no premium

摘要

Our firm was just notified that we had achieved a LEED Silver rating on a higher-ed project. Not only that, we were just two points short of a Gold rating. Our project [designed in association with HKS, Dallas] was not designed to reach a particular LEED rating. We simply applied our standard design process and included only those design features which the client agreed made economic sense. It was only after design was completed and the contractor selected, that the client asked if the project might achieve a Silver rating.