USGBC Georgia Presents: LEED Building Tour + Social Hour @ TK Elevator

DESCRIPTION

Atlanta continues to be a hotbed for sustainability.

This tour highlights a highly visible and unique LEED-certified project that recently opened in the Battery near Atlanta Braves stadium. Participants will not only see LEED in action but learn about the process and lessons learned from project team members. We will discuss aspects of the TKE's strategies and policies that contributed to carbon reduction and LEED certification goals.

The Innovation and Qualification Center is TK Elevator’s state-of-the-art research and development facility. It includes software labs, a digital showroom, engineering offices and training facilities as well as event and meeting spaces located at the top of the building. Anchoring the North American research and development facility is a modern elevator test tower. With 18 shafts, the test tower is used to trial new concepts and product pilots, including high-speed elevators. The test tower also conducts robust tests to ensure compliance with stringent safety requirements on standard elevators. In addition to creating an innovation hub for the elevator industry, TK Elevator also sought to create a sustainable building unlike any other in the industry. From the unique construction process that greatly reduced carbon emissions to the environmentally friendly materials used throughout the facility, TK Elevator’s Innovation and Qualification Center is truly one of the most transformative building of its kind.

The program will conclude with a reception at the rooftop lounge area of TKE's HQ. Hors d’oevres and refreshments will be provided .

DETAILED AGENDA

• 5:30 PM Check-in
• 5:40 PM Tour TK Elevator Innovation and Qualification Center
• 6:40 PM Social hour + networking on rooftop space
• 8:00 PM Event ends

SPEAKERS & PROJECTS

• TBD

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Explain the primary goals and motivators that drove project team’s priorities, decisions and helped achieve LEED certification on 4 diverse projects.
2. Identify the primary strategies that contributed to the achievement of LEED credits and describe the impact of those strategies on occupants & building performance.
3. Discuss lessons learned on each project, and how the application of green strategies enhanced buildings’ performance and helped to achieve the their LEED Certification goals and the owners project requirements.
4. Explain how the City of Atlanta was able to achieve LEED for Cities certification, and how their leadership in LEED certification at the building level contributed to city-level certification.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Tentative: 1 GBCI CE Hours (specific for LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP ID+C, LEED AP ND, SITES AP) and 1 AIA LUs.

Host or Publisher USGBC Georgia