Commercial
Located in Seattle's burgeoning South Lake Union neighborhood, Alley24 is one of the nation’s first LEED-certified mixed-use projects, offering a new model for sustainable urban development. NBBJ, the project architect, used integrated design strategies that enabled Alley24 to achieve a building Energy Use Index of 53 kBTU/sf-yr - a 43 percent reduction in energy use. The urban infill project is sited on a full city-block within a 60-acre urban redevelopment effort, one of the largest in the US and anchored by three historic brick laundry buildings.
The highly visible Banner Bank Building, the first LEED Platinum office speculative building in the world, also has a great integrated design story to tell. The owner of Banner Bank, Christensen Corporation, used a rigorous integrated design process with the design team and the Integrated Design Lab that resulted in a building that performs 49% better than baseline.
The design team on this project committed early in the programming phase to include substantial daylighting and other high performance strategies resulting in modeled annual energy savings of $41,777.
