EPA Honors the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Visitors' Center in Clermont, KY as a Green Building Challenge Winner

08.10.09 - 22:02 ... source : Environmental Protection Agency - EPA

... Release date: 10/08/2009 Contact Information: Dawn Harris-Young, (404) 562-8421, harris-young.dawn@epa.gov (Atlanta, Ga. – Oct. 8, 2009) – The Bernheim Arboretum and Research Visitors' Center in Clermont, KY is one of six recently honored by EPA as an innovative green concept designed to reduce the environmental and energy impacts of buildings. These concepts may assist the building industry in reducing more than 88 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris sent to U.S. landfills each year. The Bernheim visitors' center design roots the building firmly in its woodland context by blurring distinctions between the indoors and outdoors, and by incorporating the surrounding forest into the building's lifecy ...» Next (HTML)