SEATTLE, WA – The 1910 Fairview Avenue Building was recently awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (EB:O&M) certification. Columbia Pacific Management, the building’s ownership, engaged a team including Kidder Mathews, the property manager and ArchEcology, a LEED consultant for the project. Over a year long process, the team worked with the building tenants and service providers to improve building operations and document those improvements.
One key to certification was the emphasis placed on indoor air quality. The cleaning contractor uses high performance green cleaning standards throughout the facility and is continuously monitoring its employees to ensure the highest standards are being met. Over 90% of the cleaning products utilized are deemed green as is all of the equipment used on site.
Several upgrades were made to both the heating and the ventilation systems including a new chiller and controls system. The team also engaged a building commissioning firm to thoroughly examine the building’s energy systems to ensure they are running as efficiently as possible. The commissioning firm was able to recommend several measures to improve operations which have proven to be valuable.
Tenant build-out standards were put in place so all projects will be required to utilize sustainable materials in the future. While often difficult in an urban setting, the building was also able to achieve a credit for reducing its light pollution during the nighttime hours to help reduce the buildings effect on its neighbors and on local bird life.
About Kidder Mathews
Kidder Mathews is one of the largest independently owned commercial real estate firms on the West Coast, with over 400 real estate professionals and staff in 9 offices in Washington, Oregon, and California. Kidder Mathews offers a complete range of brokerage, appraisal, property management, consulting, sustainability, and project and construction management services for all property types. The firm performs $1.95 billion in transactions, manages over 22 million square feet of space, and conducts 1,000 appraisals annually. For more information, go to www.kiddermathews.com.
For inquiries, please contact Karen Benoit at 206.296.9600 or email: kbenoit@kiddermathews.com
About LEED
LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. For more information, go to www.usgbc.org/leed.