The City of Kent reports that ShoWare Center, its new multi-purpose sports and entertainment facility, has been awarded LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. This designation makes ShoWare Center the first sports arena in North America to achieve such a rating.
"Receiving LEED Gold certification reaffirms our efforts to balance economic development with being good stewards of the environment," said Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke. "It's also pretty cool to be the first on the continent."
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Jul. 22, 2009 at 11:08am Kent's ShoWare Center is 'Gold'LEED is a voluntary, consensus-based national certification program for developing high-performance sustainable buildings that provide immediate and measurable results for building owners and occupants. ShoWare Center has received several awards since opening in January, including the American Institute of Architects Civic Design Award and Green Building of America Award by the Real Estate & Construction Review. Comment on this story at BusinessExaminer.com. Plenty more in the Archives The comments function of the Business Examiner community is meant to encourage conversations and spark ideas about business issues in the South Sound. The feature is free and open to members of the public who register basic log in information. Comments should be concise, on topic and avoid attacks, profanity or abusive language or content. Comments that are deemed to violate this policy will be removed. |
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