LEED Certified

Completed in 2009, the 89,700 sf, four-story LEED Gold certified Floral Vale office building was tightly designed to reduce the amount of building materials required while improving energy efficiency (28% energy saving design).Stormwater is managed through rain gardens and the smart building enables Tenants to monitor and manage their energy usage.

PROJECT FACT SHEET

The new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Complex is designed to support modern educational trends, such as small-group collaboration, hands-on learning, use of multimedia tools, smaller class sizes, and multidisciplinary approaches, while remaining flexible enough to respond to future pedagogical innovations. The complex is comprised of two buildings: a 32,000-square-foot technology building and a 100,000-square-foot science, engineering, and math building.

As of 2010, the 218,000-square-foot facility, housing 950 employees, is the third-largest new construction Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum level building on the planet. Evan Welsh, SAP AG’s global media relations specialist, explained it has ripple benefits, as well. 

Entry to the building is through a passageway that features a floor comprised of recycled materials, including seashells and pieces of crushed bottles and glass and the bamboo drop ceiling.

FreemanWhite, Inc. in association with VSBA designed a major expansion for the Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Cedar Crest Campus and oversaw construction of the final phase of its facility master plan projects. The Kasych Pavilion, centerpiece of the campus, includes:

• a 182-bed (all private) patient care tower

• 6 new operating rooms

• 3 30-bed medical / surgical units

• 2 intensive care units with 44 beds total

• cardiac unit

• 30-bed open-heart unit in-patient tower

Lehigh Valley Industrial Park and Spillman Farmer Architects have achieved dual LEED Gold certifications for the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park office building and Spillman Farmer Architects’ offices, located in Bethlehem Pennsylvania on the former Bethlehem Steel industrial site (and now the largest privately owned brownfield site in the United States).

REI, a leading distributor of recreational outdoor equipment chose Lauth to develop and construct a 625,000 square foot distribution center in Bedford, PA. The state-of- the-art center will serve the recreational, camping, hiking and climbing needs of the eastern United States market.

With ARAMARK as its commissioning agent, the new science building of Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.) has been awarded a Silver Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. This is the first building on the college's campus to be LEED certified.