Video: Prototype LEED-Certified Office Depot Opens

Office Depot is opening it’s first LEED-certified prototype store in Austin, TX.  What makes this store so significant is that the prototype that has been approved by the USGBC to be replicated in order to streamline future LEED-certified locations.

The model location features, among other items, 52 skylights for EQ, solar panels providing 10% of energy needed to operate the store for EA,  native low-irrigation landscaping for WE, a high-albedo roof and preferred parking for EEV’s towards SS and high recycled content concrete and parking curbs for MR.

Kudos to Office Depot  - learn more about their environmental stewardship program here.

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