Miami continues to get greener each day
Miami continues to get greener each day. Miami Tower is the latest building to join the other LEED
Buildings that makeup the Miami skyline:
“Miami Tower has always been multi-colored. Now, it’s a lot greener. The iconic office skyscraper that lights up the Magic City’s skyline is the newest LEED-certified building in the urban core. Located at 100 Southeast 2nd Street, the 623,000-square-foot office tower earned LEED EB Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council under the Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance standard. With this recognition, Miami Tower becomes the third class A office tower in the city’s urban core to earn LEED EB certification. Just in the past four years, 98 civic and commercial buildings and interiors — ranging from schools to community centers, retail stores and new and retrofitted office buildings — have been LEED certified, with scores more in the pipeline.
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For many big developers in Miami, LEED certification is no longer just an option: The city’s Miami 21 zoning overhaul, which went into effect last year, requires large buildings in and around downtown, as well as civic and park buildings, to be certified for LEED silver”…..More at MiamiTower gets LEED Certification | KW Com
Indeed LEED certification has grown tremendously throughout South Florida in recent years.
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“The trend was pioneered by colleges, public and private schools and government agencies that adopted LEED certification as a requirement for all major construction and renovation projects. But it has now been embraced in a big way by large commercial developers and the corporate tenants they serve, especially in the highly competitive Class A office market. Developers and leasing agents say upscale buildings that can’t boast LEED certification suddenly find themselves at a distinct disadvantage. Engineering and architectural firms, meanwhile, have scrambled to get their professionals trained in LEED design to keep abreast of the competition.”
‘It’s unbelievable how much the world has changed in three years,’’ said William Holly, who developed Miami’s first LEED-certified new office tower, the 14-story Miami Green building next to the Douglas Road Metrorail station in Coral Gables in 2008, only to lose it in the real-estate crash’
….More at South Florida buildings aiming for green standard « Behm Brokeragemercial Miami
For more information on LEED Certification, check out the video below:
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