John Rebchook is a former Rocky Mountain News reporter with more than 30 years of experience in writing and communications... The Wall Street Journal today had an interesting article today about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s new $64 million, 218,000-square-foot building under construction in Golden.
The LEED-Platinum building hopes to be the greenest office building in the nation, but at a price – construction costs are estimated at $280 per-square-foot, double the typical construction cost in Denver, according to the article.
No detail is too small, though, when it comes to saving energy. The 750 employees will use laptops, because personal computers are too big of energy hogs. Even the phones are green, using only 2.8 kilowatt-hours of electricity monthly, compared with 10.8 kilowatt-hours for a standard model.
The design-build team includes Denver-based RNL, Haselden Construction LLC of Centennial, and Stantec Consulting. Denver-based RavenBrick LLC is providing a reflective film it developed, which will be used on some windows that allows the glass to darken as it gets warmer outside, reflecting the sun’s heat form the building, but still allowing daylight to provide natural lighting for the employees.
Truly a building of the future.
Contact John Rebchook at JRCHOOK@gmail.com or 303-945-6865.
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Yeah, spare no expense to be "green" when the taxpayers are footing the bill.