Bostwick Design Partnership Completes First Leed-Certified Healthcare Project in Northeast Ohio
(8/25/2009)
Posted by: Chris Gaerig, Associate Editor
Bostwick Design Partnership announces the completion of Northeast Ohio’s first LEED-certified project for a healthcare institution according to the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Certified Project List. The project, completed for Cleveland Clinic, is the JJ North Administrative Office Interiors and has been certified by the USGBC as a LEED-Silver building under their guidelines outlined in their LEED for Commercial Interiors rating system. The project is also the first LEED-certified facility for the Cleveland Clinic.
The JJ North Administrative Offices, designed by Bostwick Design Partnership of Cleveland, provides office and work space for more than 500 Clinic employees and covers approximately 80,000 square feet on six floors of the administrative office building on the main clinic campus.
The flexible, efficient, open-plan office space, presenting both a sense of vitality and a highly designed exterior façade to the neighboring streets, surrounds two sides of a parking garage. The combination of 237,000 square feet of office functions and parking for 2,400 patients, families, and employees in one location maximizes the use of precious campus land.
Some of the LEED aspects of this project include daylighting and views from workstations, automated lighting control, providing bicycle racks and showers, and segregating recyclable construction waste.
“We’re proud and excited to have earned Northeast Ohio’s first LEED Certification for a healthcare institution,” said Christina Ayers, director of the Office for a Healthy Environment at Cleveland Clinic. “This is an important milestone in Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to building healthy, green buildings for our employees to work in and our patients to heal in. In addition to the Clinic’s JJ North Office Building, the 89th Street Service Center and Garage, also designed by Bostwick Design Partnership, is currently registered for LEED certification, and, once certified, it will be among the largest LEED-certified projects in the State of Ohio.”
