enero 26, 2017 posted in Aerospace & Aviation, Design and Engineering
St. Augustine, FL – January 24, 2017 — The Austin Company, a design, engineering, construction and location consulting firm with offices nationally, is proud to announce the LEED® Gold Certification of Northrop Grumman’s Building 100 in St. Augustine, Florida. This follows the 2015 award of LEED® Silver Certification to Northrop Grumman’s Building 228 in Melbourne, Florida.
Building 100, Northrop Grumman’s new 366,000 square-foot manufacturing center for the U.S. Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, was designed and constructed by Austin. The facility received a total of 68 LEED® credits out of the 73 pursued.
SEE ALSO: Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Aircraft Integration Center of Excellence – Building 100
As a large, highly specialized manufacturing building, the facility faced multiple challenges to achieving a LEED® Gold Certification. The project team’s commitment prevailed, however, and numerous design approaches were implemented to design the facility to be as environmentally friendly as possible. Representative features include:
“It was certainly a full team effort,” stated Ken Stone, Project Executive. “The LEED® system is not set up for this kind of project to achieve Silver, let alone Gold. It took a lot of dedicated work to design, engineer and implement the LEED® features and performance characteristics to hit the Gold level.”
Building 100 was also awarded a 2016 Engineering News Record Regional Best Projects Award of Merit.
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