Award Winner
Integrated Design Associates, Inc. (IDeAs)

The IDeAs design team has taken a 1960s era concrete building and remodeled it into a net-zero energy and carbon facility, using 60% less energy than the national standard, and incorporating solar systems to achieve the zero energy goal. The design team employed an array of energy strategies including lighting retrofits with sensors, maximizing daylight in workspaces, a high efficiency heating and cooling system, upgraded insulation, and high efficiency electronic equipment. IDeAs also made the building water efficient with low-flow toilets, waterless urinals, and automatic faucets to save an estimated 14,982 gallons of water. Other green features of the building include recycled office materials, biodegradable cleaning products, and a low maintenance landscape which provides habitat for native flora and fauna.