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Grant Award RecipientsCommercial Green Building Award RecipientsJack Hunter O'Dell Education CenterOwner: Institute for Community Leadership The Institute for Community Leadership provides training for traditionally disenfranchised young people in South Seattle and South King County in overcoming hurdles to academic excellence and meaningful civic engagement. The Institute's new Jack Hunter O'Dell Environmental Education Center is a multi-service facility including a 4,400-square-foot learning center and workshop studio on a 17-acre campus near Kent. The buildings are designed to welcome the natural environment indoors with sliding doors and views to the surrounding meadow and forest. The green design goals for the project highlight durability, minimized energy use, zero emissions, and protection of the site's natural habitat. The O'Dell Education Center will showcase renewable energy systems (geothermal and solar), native materials, rainwater catchment, and low impact development practices while providing a regional model for design that demonstrations appropriate technology and rural functionality. 21 Acres Agricultural CenterOwner: 21 Acres Located on a 21-acre parcel near the Woodinville town center, the 21 Acres Agricultural Center is a 17,000-square-foot facility housing a year-round farmers market, agriculture learning center and community kitchen. The site includes community gardens and farmland demonstrating organic agricultural production. The project features extensive use of solar energy both for producing electricity and heating water. Earth berms surrounding the buildings will provide natural cooling for cellars and storage areas of farm products, reducing the project's overall energy consumption. As part of its low-impact development strategy, the center will be capped by a vegetated green roof, while rainwater will be captured in large cisterns for on-site irrigation use. Mercer Slough Environmental Education CenterOwner: City of Bellevue- Parks & Community Services The new Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center, developed in partnership with the Pacific Science Center, Puget Sound Energy, and the City of Bellevue Parks and Community Services Department, will be a premier regional facility for freshwater wetland ecology, water quality, and environmental sustainability. The center will be located in the Mercer Slough Nature Park, a 320-acre freshwater wetland featuring one of the most diverse ecosystems in the region. A series of small buildings totaling about 12,000-square feet will house a visitor's center, classrooms and labs for research and monitoring to increase understanding of wetland ecology. The project will be a demonstration of low-impact development that seeks to reduce runoff and naturally manage stormwater onsite. The project includes a vegetated green roof, rain gardens and elevated boardwalks and trails extending into the surrounding slough. More InformationLearn more about commercial building and residential building incentives and grant opportunities. |
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