US Green Building Council – Green Scene Meeting held at Gray Construction

On June 10, 2009, Gray Construction hosted a Green Scene meeting at their Lexington, KY office. Green Scene is a monthly networking event held by the Kentucky Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Guests enjoyed networking, a tour of Gray Construction's office space and a presentation by Lee Bagley, AIA, LEED AP on the Bernheim Visitors Center and how it achieved the status of the first LEED Platinum rating awarded to a building in Kentucky and the surrounding region. Gray Construction was the General Contractor for this LEED Construction project. The key sustainable design features at the Bernheim Visitors Center include:<ul><li>Cradle to cradle life cycle: </li><ul><li>Some of the lumber was harvested from old Bourbon rack houses being dismantle by Brown-Forman and Jim Beam brands. </li><li>Some areas utilized re-used cypress form H.J. Heinz pickle vats which were being decommissioned and heading for a land fill. </li><li>Beams and columns can easily be unbolted and reused in another structure. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>"Gray" water from the roof captured in an 8,000 gallon cistern for toilets.</li><li>Ground water purification thru the use of features like a native grass vegetative roof, a rain garden, and parking runoff captured by "oyster mushroom beds" </li><li>Local concrete with a high concentration of fly ash diverted from the landfill and crushed unused or waste concrete for aggregate</li></ul>To learn more about the Bernheim Visitors Center, please visit <a href="../green/projects/12?page=2" target="_blank" title="Gray Bernheim">http://www.gray.com/green/projects/12?page=2</a> and <a href="http://www.bernheim.org/news_old.htm" target="_blank" title="Bernheim">http://www.bernheim.org/news_old.htm</a>. If you have LEED Construction needs, please contact Bob Lowry, Senior Vice President - Architecture & Engineering, at <a href="mailto:blowry@gray.com">blowry@gray.com</a>.  For more information on the USGBC Kentucky Chapter, please visit <a href="http://chapters.usgbc.org/kentucky/">http://chapters.usgbc.org/kentucky/</a>. 2009-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 99 US Green Building Council – Green Scene Meeting held at Gray Construction

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