HALCOM COUNSULTING

If you have any experience with construction you've likely heard of LEED Certification. Delivered by the US Green Building Council, it's becoming known as a major step in Greening business, and Halcom Consulting is at the forefront of the field, helping architects and builders achieve that coveted seal.

For the unfamiliar, here's a quick-n-dirty summary, courtesy of the Halcom site:

LEED for New Construction is a performance-oriented rating system where building projects earn points for satisfying criteria designed to address specific environmental impacts inherent in the design, construction, operations and management of a building. [It's] organized into five environmental categories: Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality. An additional category, Innovation and Design, awards points to LEED projects that develop new solutions, employ new technologies, educate, or realize exemplary performance in another area.

This month Kirtland Air Force Base unveils its first LEED Silver building, the Battlespace Environment Laboratory, guided toward certified status by Halcom Consulting. Of course, no one would know the building is certified if you didn't tell them, so we designed the lobby sign announcing their commitment to a Greener footprint. The building opens grandly at the end of the month.


From their website:

"The Battlespace Environment Division in the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate represents the USAF expertise on the space and upper atmosphere environment and its effects on space systems and on command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems."

The building approximately contains 145,000 square feet of laboratory and administrative space, optimized for the employees' experience and minimal environmental impact.

Client: Halcom Consulting
Team: Britt Martinez, Lynn Platow