February 6, 2006
The sum of its parts
By Sean Donahue
This winter, Ledgewood Construction is at work on Olympia Equity Investors' 45,000-square-foot medical office building at 50 Sewall St. in Portland. The brick and metal-sided building, designed by PDT Architects in Portland, is the first commercial building in Maine to receive Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design program pre-certification for a host of features that will reduce the building's energy costs by 15%.
Those individual features are the key to LEED certification, which is based on a checklist system that awards buildings points for use of various building materials and practices. Cobble together a mix of features worth 24 points and a building is LEED certified. Additional points warrant "Silver" certification (30 to 35 points), "Gold" certification (36 to 47 points), or "Platinum" certification (48 or more points).
Below is a look at how 50 Sewall St. achieved the 27 points that qualified it for LEED certification, broken out by the program's six categories.
Those individual features are the key to LEED certification, which is based on a checklist system that awards buildings points for use of various building materials and practices. Cobble together a mix of features worth 24 points and a building is LEED certified. Additional points warrant "Silver" certification (30 to 35 points), "Gold" certification (36 to 47 points), or "Platinum" certification (48 or more points).
Below is a look at how 50 Sewall St. achieved the 27 points that qualified it for LEED certification, broken out by the program's six categories.
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