One Market Street, San Francisco LEED Building Certification

Key Facts

• LEED Platinum certification of new Autodesk facility to serve as a showcase of sustainable building retrofit design, implemented utilizing what many might call the future of the design and construction industry, Integrated Project Delivery.
  
• • Integrated Project Delivery: owner/architect/builder joint contract created financial incentive to work together to meet ambitious LEED Platinum goal.
  • Use of Autodesk Ecotect Analysis software to evaluate daylighting and building envelope for heating/cooling, acoustics
  • Use of Autodesk’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) software to visualize and calculate costs, energy savings, etc. was central tool throughout planning process”

  Physical solutions implemented:

  • Energy Star in 92% of equipment & appliances
  • Entered into 2-year 100% green power purchase agreement
  • CO2 sensors and employed individual climate and lighting control measures to increase employee satisfaction and productivity.
  • Daylight responsive and continuous dimming in all regularly occupied spaces provides occupant controls and access to natural daylight
  • Bicycle parking spaces
• The project took 11 months to implement

• Additional benefits include the following:

  • Contributes to community development & local business growth
  • Water efficient fixtures save 47% over conventional fixtures
  • Use of 72% salvaged or refurbished furniture and furnishings
  • 18% post-consumer and 20% pre-consumer recycled building materials & products
  • 49% of all building materials were manufactured locally and 7% of all building materials were regionally harvested
  • Low/No VOC paints adhesives, and sealants used throughout
  • Green cleaning policy and program, which reduces the exposure of building occupants and maintenance personnel to potentially hazardous contaminants, as well as provides training for the new sustainable cleaning procedures.
• The actual (or likely) cost of the project is Premium spent to achieve LEED was 2-3% of total project budget
• The primary sponsor for the project was CEO Carl Bass and his staff

What was the impact?

• Did you use a specific methodology or third party to calculate CO2e or KWh savings?

  There was no independent verification of energy savings, but both LEED and the IPD process required an outside party to evaluate (for LEED, to certify; for IPD, to verify performance goals in order to apply financial reward/penalty in contract)
• The project has internal verification for results

Making it Happen

• The following regulations or incentives allowed the business case to be more attractive

  LEED

• Barriers experienced during the initiation of the project

• Comments regarding barriers

  • At several points during the process, consultants told the building owners it didn’t seem they could achieve LEED Platinum status.
  • The original amount of money budgeted for LEED certification was insufficient.

• How were they overcome?

  • The financial incentive structure of the Integrated Project Delivery contract allowed difficulty to be met with creativity and motivation.
  • Corporate expectations and the desire for personal affiliation with a LEED Platinum project also helped drive positive results.
  • Budget constraint was easily overcome due to above motivations and modest need for additional funds.

• What were the key lessons learnt?

  The Integrated Project Delivery structure ensured that the right decision-makers were present and working together. Without this mechanism, we’re doubtful we would have achieved our ambitious results