[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENERGY: Vertical Screen builds green at former Warminster Naval Air Warfare Center (PA) property

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vertical Screen Claims Top PA Green

by Susan DeFreitas
Earth Technling
November 18, 2011

Just what is the greenest green building in the sylvan expanses of  
Pennsylvania? According to Vertical Screen, its new, state-of-the-art  
world headquarters building on a former brownfield site in  
Warminster, Pa., takes the cake, coming in with a LEED Platinum score  
of 58 points, not to mention the seventh-highest LEED score for a  
newly constructed office building in the United States (and ninth  
highest in the world).

This 50,000 square foot building - located on nine acres once  
occupied by the Johnsville Naval Air Warfare Center - features (as  
you might imagine) a grocery list of green features, including a  
geothermal HVAC system, which makes use of 64 closed ground-loop  
wells installed at a depth of 500 feet to utilize the Earth’s mean  
temperature to heat and cool the building, and a roof-mounted solar  
photovoltaic array. Comprised of 900 panels (each containing 40  
cylindrical modules), this system generates 163 kilowatts of power,  
or around 20 percent of the building’s total electricity needs.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/11/vertical-screen-claims-top-pa- 
green/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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