Court Square annex attains Memphis' first gold-level LEED certification

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The recycled foundation and savings associated with eliminating a fourth wall helped boost CA2 to gold-level certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

It's the highest LEED-rated new building in Memphis so far under a program that serves as a yardstick of green building practices, said architect Jason Weeks of Looney Ricks Kiss.

CA2 was completed last fall, the new construction piece of Court Square Center in Downtown Memphis, which includes the renovated Lowenstein and Lincoln-American Tower buildings.

Original plans called for the Court Annex building to be rehabilitated, but it was destroyed by an Oct. 6, 2006, fire attributed to wind-blown embers from a blaze that leveled First United Methodist Church.

Developers John Basek, Willie Chandler and Yorke Lawson brought in Looney Ricks Kiss to design the new building. The firm designed the county's first LEED-certified building, Independent Bank's Germantown branch, a silver-level project.

"It's something we were all familiar with, and it's a little bit of 'Do the right thing,' to be attentive to the environment, to be attentive to energy consumption," said Chandler.

The LEED gold honor was announced last week to local members of the Green Building Council, which met at the New Consortium of Law and Business, tenant in CA2's commercial space.

"The natural lighting, peaceful color scheme, and flowing floor plan can show everyone that a LEED building can be beautiful and very functional," said Regina Hunt of Central Sales Co., a council member. "I was very impressed with the project as a whole," Hunt said.

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