First U.S. Prison to Earn Gold Located near Spokane

SPOKANE

Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, Wash., has received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The project applied for and received a unique, campus-wide Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Although the CRCC project includes 21 individual buildings, the project submitted a single certification submission for the entire campus.

Construction on the 2,048-bed medium-custody expansion began in June 2006 and was completed in October 2008 by joint venture partners Hunt Construction Group and Lydig Construction (Hunt/Lydig), and designed by Integrus Architecture, all of Spokane, in association with Rosser International. There are 21 buildings on the new campus including housing units, medical facilities, administrative space and Correctional Industries operations.

Providence Health Services Earns Gold Certificate

RENTON

Providence Health and Services also won Best Tenant Improvement in the Best of 2009.

The newly renovated corporate office of Providence Health & Services has been awarded LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council under the Commercial Interiors program. It is the first LEED Gold building in Renton, Wash.

Callison, a Seattle based architecture firm, collaborated with Providence to renovate five floors of a four-building office park in Renton to a sustainable environment with features including energy efficiency, use of local materials and water conservation.

Northshore Named Most Energy Efficient District

BOTHELL, WASH.

Northshore School District is the top Energy Star school district in the state with 11 schools receiving the Energy Star Award in 2008.

Energy Star, a joint venture of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy, is a voluntary labeling program established in 1992 to help identify and promote energy efficient practices and products that help consumers save money while protecting the environment. Schools must meet stringent EPA performance standards, by using less energy and emitting fewer greenhouse gas emissions than competitors, to receive the Energy Star Award. To qualify, a school must score in the top 25 percent based on the EPA National Energy Performance Rating system, which measures a school’s performance against the energy usage of similar schools while taking into account such criteria as operating conditions, local weather patterns, and others.

Northshore also won an Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools National Excellence Award in recognition of its efforts to improve air quality for students, teachers and staff members. McKinstry Co., Seattle, serves as the district’s energy services company.

The combination of energy retrofits, conservation initiatives and energy usage and performance monitoring has enabled Northshore to save more than $200,000 in energy expenditures for the 2008–09 school year—enough energy to power 176 single-family homes.