“We believed it was our responsibility to build a sustainable structure and incorporate energy efficiency in the construction from day one,” said Dave Logan, Director of Operations for Idaho’s AdaCounty. Logan is referring to the county courthouse building located in the state’s largest city and capital, Boise.
Construction broke ground in 2000, and as Logan says, project managers knew from the beginning they wanted to create something that used energy efficiently and provided comfort and improved air quality for the employees that would eventually work there. The old courthouse was built in the 1940s and facility operators had significant problems stabilizing temperatures inside since heating and cooling had to be maintained manually. Over the weekend, building temperatures could drop to below 60 degrees making Monday mornings particularly challenging for workers.
Read the rest of Stacey Hobart's continuation of our High Performance Building Series in the October 2008 issue of CitiesGoGreen.
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