Eight years after Corporate Headquarters Building 701 was completed as a ‘green’ building, Armstrong World Industries worked with Re:Vision Architecture to undertake a series of additional design and operational improvements to fully optimize the building and secure a LEED-Platinum rating from the US Green Building Council under the LEED For Existing Buildings (EB) program. In the end, Building 701 became the fifth building nationwide to achieve LEED-EB Platinum. The achievement set an example for the corporate world, promoting environmental responsibility and consciousness.
Designed in collaboration with Roofscapes, Inc., the enormous vegetated roof atop PECO’s headquarters building at 23rd and Market Street is the largest of its kind in a Pennsylvanian urban setting and will offer a myriad of environmental benefits from stormwater absorption (soaking-up 1.5 million gallons of rainwater runoff annually), to heat island mitigation, to the creation of a welcoming habitat for birds and other wildlife. In a
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This project is a design-build of a LEED-EB renovation of an existing 130,000SF Readiness Center and a LEED-NC construction of a new 30,000SF Field Maintenance Shop for the National Guard user. The Readiness Center includes renovation of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, abatement of indoor firing range, and upgrades to kitchen, bathrooms, classrooms, storage areas, arms vaults, and offices. The Field Maintenance Shop includes new construction of maintenance bays, flammable areas, controlled waste storage, classrooms, bathrooms, and other storage rooms.