City Building on Garden Street Earns LEED Certification

The offices incorporate a variety of sustainable features

By Jim Dewey | Published on 02.12.2010

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The city of Santa Barbara’s office building at 630 Garden St. has been awarded LEED Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The building features optimized use of energy and water, environmentally preferred products, recycling programs and system upgrades. A ceremony to accept the award will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the front entrance to the building.

Buildings in the United States are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions, 40 percent of energy consumption, 13 percent of water consumption and 15 percent of GDP per year, making green building a source of significant economic and environmental opportunity. Greater building efficiency can meet 85 percent of future U.S. demand for energy, and a national commitment to green building has the potential to generate 2.5 million U.S. jobs.

LEED is the nation’s pre-eminent program for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings.

— Jim Dewey is the facilities manager for the city of Santa Barbara Public Works Department.

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» Dunked on 02.14.10 @ 04:06 PM

This building gets some of its required parking spaces in the basement garage across the street at 617 Garden. That basement was built in 2008 and, according to one owner, the waterproofing was installed backwards. In other words, the contaminated ground water intrudes (leaks) into the parking garage. Likely, millions of dollars will be spent trying to solve the problem caused, according to one owner, by architects, managers, contractors, inspectors (Building and Public Works), etc. Thousands of gallons (more than one acre—maybe two acre feet) of water were pumped to the sewage treatment plant at great expense and expended great amounts of natural resources (water) and energy.  How did LEED separate the damage to the environment resulting from the construction of parking spaces used by the building from the building when evaluating for LEED Certification? Did Public Works and Building provide accurate infromation to LEED?  Did anyone with a financial or professional interest influence the LEED decision?  Can it be revoked?

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» Drunked 2 on 02.18.10 @ 08:57 PM

Are you one of the new tenants of the mental health facility?  If not, I’m sure we can make a place for you.

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