LEED & Sustainability

City of Austin – Permitting and Development Center

EEA performed Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection (MEPF) scopes of work for the new City of Austin Permitting & Development office building and parking garage in Austin, TX. The office building is four stories in height and approximately 250,000 sq. ft. The parking garage has over 1,000 spaces. The building also includes a catering

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Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC) Commissioning

Verifying the Design Works as Intended By providing Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning services as part of the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification program, EEA helped the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC) achieve these goals at their 69,392 square foot office and warehouse facility in Seguin, Texas. The Owner, design team, construction team,

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Oak Creek Plaza – LEED Gold

As a response to the growing demand for energy efficient, LEED certified office space, this two-story 45,000 square foot shell medical office building was designed and constructed in 2009.  The project achieved a LEED Gold certification through the LEED for Core and Shell rating system.  The facility utilized an efficient water cooled packaged HVAC system,

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Seaholm Power Plant Commissioning

Repurposing Iconic Buildings What do you do with a Power Plant built in the 1950s that stopped producing power in 1989? You turn it into an office building of course!  The City of Austin chose the Seaholm Redevelopment team in 2005 to repurpose the iconic structure and land around it.  By the end of 2014

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Champion Office Complex

Gold Office Building The Champion Office Building Complex consists of two buildings that are mirror images of one another in the hills of west Austin. Each building encompasses approximately 125,000 sq. ft. of floor area. At the end of the project, the building received LEED Gold Status for core and shell. How It Was Done

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CH47 Chinook Helicopter Maintenance Hangar

EEA and Solis Constructors teamed up for this design-build of a new 40,000 SF helicopter aircraft maintenance building for the Corp of Engineers at Fort Hood, Texas. The project involved full building design, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, compressed air, lightning protection, cathodic protection, energy modeling, commissioning, DDC controls, and LEED AP services. Shining Light on

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U.S. Border Patrol Facility

Border Safety Borders between nations – even allied nations – are complex entities that require state-of-the-art facilities to monitor and control the flow of traffic from one side to the other.  The McAllen Border Patrol facility consists of two buildings: These two buildings also include spaces for enclosed offices, open work areas, conference rooms, lunch

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Nutrabolt Headquarters

The facility used abundant natural light and an energy efficient Variable Refrigerant Volume (VRF) system as strategies to help it achieve LEED Certification.

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