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Engineering firm Wight & Company announced Tuesday that the 9^th District Police Station in Chicago, a new facility located along S. Halsted St. from W. 31^st St. south to just past W. 32^nd St., achieved LEED Gold certification. The facility includes a 250-car parking structure, up-to-date holding cells, a secure viewing and line-up area, community room for group functions and a fitness room for officers and staff. One of the unique aspects of the project is its water management design that Wight & Company’s civil engineering group devised. A rain garden was constructed at the north end of the building to help implement this aggressive approach. Building on the city’s green initiatives, another notable achievement for the project was the diversion of over 97% of construction debris from landfills. This number surpassed the city’s requirement of 50% and was able to earn an Innovation point under LEED for going above and beyond. continue

If you’ve been here before, you see it looks all different. We moved to a new host and a new template. The template promises a lot more flexibility for future development, but first we have to figure out its basics. Please pardon missing bits and the like while we learn.

Creating a green team can be easy. Here’s how a staff member in Missoula,
Montana did it, along the team’s 25 top ways to save money, energy and resources.

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