Corporate offices of The Tower Companies earn Platinum, sixth LEED certification

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by jbs060809 b3 — June 15, 2009—The Tower Companies, a leading environmentally aware builder in the nation’s capital, announced that Tower’s corporate offices at 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard, designed by Kishimoto Gordon Dalaya PC (KGD), were awarded Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)—Commercial Interiors green building rating system.

Additionally, The Tower Building, an Energy Star building named 2003 Green Office Building of the Year by Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA), was awarded LEED Silver certification under the LEED for Existing Buildings rating system, making it the sixth LEED-certified project for the company.

Tower’s award-winning LEED-certified buildings include:

  • 1050 K Street, a co-development with The Lenkin Company: an 11-story jewel-box office building in DC incorporating the natural elements of air, water, earth, and light–LEED Gold;
  • The Millennium Building/1909 K Street: the first and only multi-tenant commercial office building in DC to achieve LEED certification through LEED for Existing Buildings;
  • The Blair Towns: nationally recognized by the USGBC as the first LEED-certified multi-family development in the U.S.;
  • The new corporate headquarters, 2000 Tower Oaks Blvd: a 200,000 square foot Fortune-Creating Vedic building, designed by KGD, and the area’s first multi-tenant commercial office building to be certified LEED Platinum; and
  • In 2009, Tower began one of the largest LEED renovations in the country at The Blairs, including 1,400 apartment units on a 27-acre live-work-play community in Silver Spring, Maryland. Tower now has seven buildings under renovation for LEED-EB.

The Tower Companies is reportedly the only real estate developer on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Top 50 US Green Power Purchasers’ List, ranking #42, and is EPA-certified carbon neutral. Tower is a member of EPA’s Climate Leaders, Energy Star, and Green Power Partnership programs. The company has received numerous local and national awards for its green buildings and its education and outreach initiatives.