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Wisconsin Green Building News
Milwaukee, WI, January 2010 – Wangard Partners proudly announces that High Pointe Office Center has earned the prestigious ENERGY STAR® Certification.
Located at 1200 North Mayfair Road, High Pointe Office Center has earned an energy performance rating of 93, which positions the building as the highest ranking ENERGY STAR certified office building in the State of Wisconsin.
The ENERGY STAR program identifies top-performing buildings and provides a benchmark indicator of superior energy performance. Buildings carrying the ENERGY STAR label consume, on average, roughly 35 percent less energy than their non-ENERGY STAR counterparts.
The national energy performance rating helps energy managers assess how efficiently their buildings utilize energy compared to similar buildings nationwide. The rating system’s 1–100 scale quantifies how a building is performing, with a rating of 50 indicating average energy performance, and a rating of 75 or better indicating top performance.
“High Pointe received a 93 energy performance rating, indicating that the building is in the top 7 percent of ENERGY STAR certified office buildings nationwide,” said Stewart Wangard, president of Wangard Partners. “The ENERGY STAR label confirms High Pointe’s superb energy performance which saves our tenants money by reducing gas and electric bills. Furthermore, by reducing energy use, we are minimizing the carbon footprint of the building.”
(Sep 4, Milladore, WI) The Mead Wildlife Area Education & Visitor Center has been awarded LEED® Platinum Green Building Certification.
The Mead facility is the first and only State or publicly-owned building in Wisconsin to achieve LEED Platinum certification. It is the first new building in Wisconsin to be built to the LEED Platinum standard, but the second to receive such certification. The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center outside Baraboo, built after the Mead facility was occupied in 2006, was the first to receive Platinum certification under the LEED for New Construction program in 2007. A third project, the renovated Hunzinger Construction Offices in Milwaukee received Platinum certification under the LEED for Commercial Interiors program, and a private home in Madison received Platinum certification under the LEED for Homes program.
The LEED certification process for the Mead project was delayed due to the unique nature of coordinating documentation information from multiple donors of materials and services involved in the project. A majority of the sustainable design features on the building were made possible by a highly-successful private fundraising effort by the local non-profit Friends of The Mead/McMillan Association, Inc. group in central Wisconsin.
(Aug 19, 2009 Appleton) River Crest Elementary School Earns LEED® Gold. Hoffman LLC Project First in Wisconsin to Receive Honor Using USGBC’s LEED for Schools Rating System
River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin, was recently awarded the designation of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold. This esteemed designation was delivered from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the nation's foremost authority on green buildings.
The highly-sustainable and eco-friendly school was designed and built by Hoffman LLC, an Appleton, Wisconsin-based planning, architectural, and construction management firm.
River Crest Elementary became the first elementary school in Wisconsin, and just the second public elementary school in the nation, to receive Gold under the USGBC's new LEED for Schools Rating System. In addition, it is the second of only two public school buildings in the state to receive LEED Gold designation—the first being Hoffman's Northland Pines High School project in Eagle River, Wisconsin, in 2006. Read more