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Prescott's LEED-Gold James Learning Center Earns International Green Building Award  PRESCOTT, AZ- CATALYST
ARCHITECTURE was pleased
to receive a Green Dot Award Honorable Mention in the Design-Build
category for
our LEED-Gold James Learning Center at the Highland Center for Natural
History. The first LEED-Gold building in Yavapai County, the James Learning Center is a model of sustainability. As the hub of an 80 acre lease in the Prescott National Forest, the James Learning Center serves as the home base for the Center's community environmental education programs. The building itself is an important contributor to those learning programs, offering visitors hands-on experience with rainwater catchment, passive solar heating, passive cooling strategies, non-toxic building materials, waste water treatment with constructed wetlands, and the use of native plants to restore habitat disturbed by the construction process. The Green Dot Awards received over 1000 entries from 18 countries. Their website states that, "A business with a Green Dot Award is a business that can be trusted by consumers with stewardship of the environment". Founded in 2006, the Green Dot Awards seeks to recognize leaders in sustainability and act as "a consumer guide to excellence in environmentally- sustainable practices." Links: CATALYST ARCHITECTURE is an award winning, full-service sustainable design firm with offices in Prescott, and Flagstaff Arizona. The firm specializes in master planning, public/tribal, commercial, and custom residential work, with an emphasis on high-performance, resource-efficient design and construction practices. With both principals Jeffrey L. Zucker and Matthew B. Ackerman LEED accredited, Catalyst is committed to the thoughtful integration of our natural and built environments. |
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