Green and Sustainable Building
Our staff of LEED accredited professionals has the experience to manage all phases of your green building design and construction process. From providing design input for optimizing energy saving systems to building commissioning and the final processing of the submittals for certification, W.E. O’Neil’s experience ensures that your Green project is a success.
MTA Transportation Building 9 Silver LEED rating in progress
El Monte, CA
The new three story bus operations building for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in the certification process for a Silver LEED rating. Green building features include water efficient landscaping, use of reflective roofing materials and reflective paving materials to reduce heat islands, installation of Carbon Dioxide monitoring in HVAC system to improve air quality, and the procurement and use of materials that are manufactured and extracted locally.
Haworth Showroom GOLD LEED rating Chicago, IL
Received Best Large Showroom award
at NeoCon 2004
Showroom was a pilot in the US Green Building Council's LEED-CI program. Some of the green building strategies included re-use of many of the showroom’s original materials such as glass and floor tiles, use of locally-secured materials, energy-efficient lighting that requires half the power, modular construction that enables less wasteful future redesigns and minimizes lifecycle costs, and easy access to mass transportation. The showroom was the first Gold rating from the USGBC LEED-CI program for a space in the Merchandise Mart.
Gary Comer Youth Center Chicago, IL
The striking rooftop garden replaces heat generating asphalt with heat reducing plants while the skylights provide natural lighting for the gym and cafeteria below. The garden also serves as a space where the youth center participants can grow and harvest vegetables and flowers.
Green materials include low-VOC paint and carpet, recycled rubber flooring, and recycled wood ceiling panels, and office and classroom lighting controlled with occupancy sensors. The exterior fiber cement panels have recycled content and no waste water was produced in their manufacturing. In addition, the panels can be replaced individually in case of vandalism.