Managed by an affiliate of Harbor Group International (HGI), the 18-story office building is the first commercial building in downtown Atlanta to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance – LEED-EB Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Servidyne won a contract in 2008 to manage the building’s certification process and ensure that the operations and maintenance practices would meet the stringent LEED-EB: O&M Gold certification standards. As part of the contract, Servidyne developed sustainability policies for the facility, including standards for exterior building management, green cleaning, waste management and sustainable purchasing practices.
To maximize the building’s sustainability and meet the vigorous certification requirements, Servidyne’s in-house team of LEED-accredited professionals and professional engineers developed a water efficiency upgrade strategy for the building’s plumbing fixtures, benchmarked energy performance and prepared the Energy Star Label application, performed ASHRAE Level I and Level II energy audits, documented energy-efficiency measures and greenhouse gas emission reductions, and calculated the mercury content of lighting systems.
The team of professionals also inspected outside air ventilation and exhaust systems, coordinated a waste stream audit, prepared daylight and views compliance calculations, audited vendor invoices to document sustainable purchases, compiled and analyzed tenant comfort and transportation surveys, and assembled and coordinated the documentation submission to LEED.
