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Projects from GreenSource
January 1, 2007
Top of the Charts:
Alberici Corporate Headquarters, Overland, MO
After a long search for a new home, the project team settled on a 14-acre site in Overland, Mo., near St. Louis. A warehouse with three 70-foot-wide and one 90-foot-wide clear-span bays, each more than 500-feet-long, was still on the site. “The architect and I stood in the corner of that dim, dingy building,” recalls Alberici, “and we could see from edge to edge, and he said, ‘You know what we could do with this?’” That architect was John Guenther, AIA, principal at Mackey Mitchell Associates in St. Louis, who describes the space as a cathedral of steel. The team restored the site with more than six acres of native prairie. Retention ponds and a constructed wetland treat stormwater on-site, while rainwater collected from the garage roof is used in the building’s cooling tower and sewage conveyance system. Along with water-efficient fixtures, this practice reduces the building’s potable water use by 70 percent, saving 500,000 gallons each year....
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