Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Reston Heights gets Silver LEED certification - Washington Business Journal:

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The first national system for neighborhoocd design from the takes into account principlea ofsmart growth, new urbanism and greebn building. The certified development formerly housed surfaces parking lots and low densitygoffice space. Chevy Chase-based said aspects of its projecf that contributed to the rating all new buildings being LEEDSilver certified, proximity to the Dulle Toll Road and two future Metro stations at Wiehl Avenue and Reston Parkway, green operations, organic landscaping and maintenance programs for all new buildingws and reducing water use by 30 percent.
Reston the first phase of the mixed-usr project, is done and consistws of a fully-leased 140,000 square-foot Clasz A office building, a 191-room Westin Reston and the soldout 194-unit Mercetr Condominium. Subsequent phases of the project, designed by Robertson and Partners, will include at leasty 1.5 million square feet of trophyoffice space, 350,000 square feet of and 500 new residential units. The entire project is estimated to deliverby 2015, which will coincide with the expected completiom of the Silver Line to Dulles. In addition to Reston JBG currently has more than 20 LEED registeres or certified projects throughoutthe area, totalint over nine million square feet.
Last year its Twinbrool Station in Rockville earnes the Gold LEEDcertification -- the first neighborhoocd development in the D.C. area and one of a handful on the East Coasrt to achievethe rating.

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