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116 THE BUSINESS CASE FOR GREEN BUILDINGS

Resources Defense Council in Santa Monica, California; the Aldo Leopold Legacy
Center in Baraboo, Wisconsin; Heifer International in Little Rock, Arkansas; the
National Audubon Society in Los Angeles, California; the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
in Annapolis, Maryland; and the William A Kerr Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri.

PLATINUM PROJECT PROFILE
The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Baraboo, Wisconsin
In 2007, the Aldo Leopold Center became the highest-scoring LEED-NC Platinum
project (with 61 out of 69 possible points). Designed by Kubala Washatko Architects,
this project serves as the Aldo Leopold Foundation’s headquarters, with office and
meeting spaces, an interpretive exhibit hall, archive, workshop, and three-season
hall. The 12,000 square-foot complex cost $4 million. The facility uses 70 percent
less energy than a standard building. A 198-panel, 39.6-kW photovoltaic system
was designed to meet 110 percent of the building’s annual energy needs. Over
90,000 board-feet of site-harvested wood was used for structural timbers, doors,
windows, finish materials, and artisan-crafted furniture. An underground earth-tube
system separates ventilation from the heating and cooling systems, savings two to
five times the energy of a combined system and allowing the building to use
100 percent fresh air ventilation, even in a rather severe winter climate.*

©The Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc. / Mark F. Heffron.

*www.architectureweek.com/2007/1114/design_4-1.html, accessed April 23, 2008.