Many CGA projects achieve LEED Certification: As of June 2024, 38 facility design projects using Colin Gordon Associates had achieved LEED Certification, including 6 projects awarded the coveted LEED Platinum status, and 20 LEED Gold. While LEED Certification is based on a variety of factors, requiring efforts by the entire team, there are a growing number of categories where an acoustical consultant can help create good acoustics for the point count. Read on for some of the projects in each category.
LEED Platinum: 6 – Includes the following quite notable projects (and their architects):
- Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (SmithGroupJJR Architects; also named 2014 “Lab of the Year” by R&D Magazine)
- Building 2400 (Imaging and Nanofabrication Facility) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (HOK Architects)
- Science & Technology Building, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (SmithGroupJJR Architects)
- Lewis Integrative Science Building (LISB), University of Oregon, Eugene (HDR Architecture)
- The Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, University of Colorado, Boulder (HDR Architecture)
- AZ BioDesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (LAS Architects)
LEED Gold: 20
- Ray and Dagmar Dolby Building, housing the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
- Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences (CINS), University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
- Precision Measurement Laboratory (PML), Building 1 Expansion, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
- National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
- James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- Addition to JILA Building, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- Li Ka-Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics & Diagnostics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Animal Health Diagnostic Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Stinson Remick Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
- Eli and Edythe Broad California Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus, Los Angeles, CA
- The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Madison, WI
- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
- USTAR BioInnovations Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT
- Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), University of North Carolina / North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC
- Exploration Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu Hall – Solar Energy Research Center, Berkeley, CA
- University of Arizona, Biosciences Research Laboratories, Tucson, AZ
- University of Illinois Chicago, Engineering Innovation Building (College of Engineering), Chicago, IL
- University of Utah, L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Research Building, Salt Lake City, UT
LEED Silver: 8
- Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Nevada–Reno, Reno, NV
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
- Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
- James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- William Eckhardt Research Center (WERC), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Building 201, Laurel, MD
- Solano Community College District, Biotechnology & Science Building, Vacaville, CA
- Pennsylvania State University, Animal, Veterinary, and Biomedical Sciences Building (AVBS) (Henning Building Replacement), University Park, PA
LEED Certified: 4
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM
- MESA MicroFab, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM
- Belknap Research Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
- University of Utah, The Primary Children’s & Families’ Cancer Research Center, Salt Lake City, UT