SF's Federal Building: Out-Greening Everyone (Even LEED)

Our friends over at Curbed posted this interesting nugget of news, reporting that the new Federal building doesn't qualify for LEED certification. Holy schnikes!

According to Curbed:

Too damn ahead of its time, the systems used for environmental control in the Fed Building are so innovative that they have yet to be considered so by the overly-prescriptive commandments of Green. The Green Buildings Council, however, claim that LEED is a work-in-progress, and have consented to take the next few months to reevaluate the Federal Building.

In a Curbed post from December, architect Thom Mayne was quoted as having problems with LEED's style of certification. Now Mayne has created a building that has so much new green technology it is uncertifiable and is essentially a big middle finger to the LEED establishment. The Fed building is officially greener that Greeny McGreenerson. We just can't wait for LEED to catch up and recognize it.

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