Archive for the 'LEED-AP' Category

Green Sports Basement

What do you get when you combine an Organic Architect and an old brewery? It’s sounds tasty to us but in reality San Francisco gets one of its newest Green buildings. The new Sports Basement recently opened over on Bryant and 15th Street without much Green fanfare but we’re here to dole out some props.
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LEED certified salads - hold the certification

We goofed earlier by calling the Mixt Greens locations LEED certified. In actuality, they followed the LEED certification standards according to co-owner, Leslie Silverglide and would likely garner a LEED Gold CI (Commercial Interior) however they determined that the pricey certification cost with be better served elsewhere. You didn’t want to pay more for that […]

Green SF Highrise

Commercial building giant Tishman Speyer wants to construct a 33-story Green highrise at the corner of Second and Howard streets. We’re not just talking Green but Gold as in LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold standard which represents the second highest level. This high level thinking could mean that the highrise contains elements such as: […]

Ashes to Ashes

Normally the thought of ash brings to mind volcano eruptions, funerals, and maybe religious holidays but for us and green builders it’s about flyash and foundations. So, when discussing the topic with one of San Francisco’s up and coming LEED-AP architects (Melanie Jacobson) she mentioned that the CHPS school they are building in the Sacramento area […]



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