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Sustainable design has become the watchword in today’s design marketplace as clients and designers both are incorporating principles of eco-friendly construction into new and renovated facilities and sites.

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. (SEH®) has been helping clients to determine their sustainable design objectives and translating those into highly functional and cost-effective designs. Our experience has ranged from civil site development for the award-winning 81,000-square-foot warehouse and office facility at USPFO Camp Williams, Wisconsin, to the LEED-rated US Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) National Fish Hatchery Visitor Center in Neosho, Missouri.

What is “sustainable design”?
At its core, sustainable design reflects an effort by designers, clients, and construction professionals to reduce the impact of building on the environment by incorporating such elements as:

• Site considerations (footprint, landscaping, run-off, soil disturbance, facility orientation)
  
• Sustainable building materials (recycled materials, local materials, embodied energy, greenhouse gas, toxicity, durability)
• Advanced lighting systems and cool daylighting
• High-performing mechanical and electrical systems
• Responsible construction practice (minimize waste of materials and fuel, salvage re-usable materials)
  

LEED Design
The United States Green Building Council has formalized certain sustainable design objectives in its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System.

From the Ground Up
SEH’s multidisciplined team of architects, planners, landscape architects, and scientists work together to assess your sustainable design and LEED objectives. The breadth of our in-house expertise allows us to address every component of your site and facility design to achieve functional, aesthetic and cost-effective facilities and sites.

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SEH is pleased to have a growing staff of accredited LEED architects and engineers with a growing portfolio of LEED-accredited design projects and projects that incorporate LEED design principles, including:

City of Buffalo Fire Hall/Community Center – Buffalo, Minnesota
Gold LEED-accredited building (pending)

Private Residence – Isabella,
Minnesota
Platinum LEED-accredited (pending)

USFWS National Fish Hatchery Visitor Center – Neosho, Missouri
Silver LEED-accredited (pending)

City of Richfield New Maintenance Facility – Richfield, Minnesota
Incorporated LEED design principles through porous pavement, rain gardens, geothermal and several other LEED recommended design features

USPFO Camp Williams, Wisconsin. 81,000-square-foot warehouse and office facility
Winner of the Wisconsin Governor’s Award for Excellence in Sustainable Design and Construction Award (SEH provided site engineering to designer Potter Lawson)

University of Minnesota, Duluth – Labovitz School Building
SEH incorporated LEED design principles to the site design, survey, and wetland delineation for this new business school building