Tour LEED Platinum Catalyst Partners and M Retail Solutions Building

With both firms growing out of their locations and wanting to expand in downtown Grand Rapids, Catalyst Partners and M Retail Solutions teamed up to find and restore their future home. They sought a location that was convenient to public transportation and bicycle-commuting lanes, provided room for future growth within the downtown area, was a building with character, and had an opportunity to restore a neglected site using restorative building practices.

The building serves as an incubator space for green technologies, including a 6-kilowatt photovoltaic solar power array that provides 20% of the building’s electricity needs. Windows were designed to optimize natural ventilation, provide great daylighting, and to minimize heat gain and thermal heat/cooling loss. Lighting fixtures were designed in concert with window sizing and placement to optimize efficiency. A high-efficiency geothermal heat exchange system has been used to achieve effective energy savings. And following completion of construction, a garden was added in a neighboring parcel to grow produce for the occupants of the building and to share with the immediate neighbors.

This project has received the highest LEED rating in the world.

Tour is under review for 1 GBCI CE

WHEN
July 18, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
4:00 Tour & Presentation
5:15 Drinks & Networking on the Catalyst Deck

LOCATION
502 Second St NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49504

COST
$10 USGBC Chapter Member
$30 USGBC Non Member

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August Green Your Lunch: What part of 40% ROI don't you like, really?

What part of 40% ROI don't you like, really?

Our August meeting will be a combination presentation and discussion about different aspects of commercial building energy audits.  What is different about Level I, II and III audits? Why use one or the other? What inclines owners to conduct energy audits (or not)?  Join us for a free-wheeling information and experience exchange!

WHEN
August 2, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

LOCATION
C2AE
648 Monroe NW, Suite 210
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Green Your Lunch programs are BYOL: Bring Your Own Lunch
*Jimmy Johns is located on the first floor of the C2AE building

COST
$0 USGBC Chapter Member
$5 USGBC Non Member

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