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WCC/WA "setting the bar for green construction"

May 21, 2010

Walsh Contruction Co./WA, SMR Architects and the YWCA teams for Family Village Issaquah (FVI) have worked hard to ensure that energy efficiency is a constant feature in the complex. FVI will go above and beyond conservation standards--it's already 27 percent more efficient than local benchmarks!

Everywhere you look in the final plans, there's another energy-saving feature. Here are just a few of the ways Walsh Contruction, SMR Architects and the YWCA are setting the bar for green construction projects:

• physical (such as sunshades) and natural shading strategies;
• devices that balance needed winter heat with unwanted summer heat;
• highly efficient windows;
• automatic dimming lighting controls (plus the highest efficiency lighting fixtures feasible);
• energy efficient elevators; and
• an Energy Star certified roof.

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