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Courtesy of Collman & Karsky Architects
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Dunedin
Community Center/Dunedin, Florida
USGBC LEED® Silver Certified
Architect:
Collman & Karsky Architects
Tampa, Florida
Owner
City of Dunedin, Florida
Size/Cost
45,000 sf/$8.2 million
TLC Services
M/E
 
Dunedin’s
new Community Center is the largest building the city
has ever constructed. It’s also the greenest, having
achieved LEED Silver® certification in the U.S. Green
Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design building rating program. Located in Highlander
Park and overlooking the lake, the center provides nearly
an acre of interior space for exercise, entertainment,
training, and education. The center has both an indoor
and an outdoor theater stage, a banquet hall that can
seat 300 people, a mirrored dance studio, a fully-equipped
fitness center, classrooms, office space, a recording
studio -- it’s even home to a branch library. Flexibility
and energy efficiency were two key engineering goals.
Before and during design, the building’s mechanical
and electrical systems were evaluated and the construction
materials were carefully chosen to make the center as
energy efficient and eco-friendly as possible. Environmental
and cost savings were achieved by optimizing energy performance
with glass, insulation and sun control for an annual savings
of at least $35,000 per year; reducing water use by more
than 20%; achieving zero light pollution; complete remediation
of the former brownfield site; recycling more than 70%
of the construction waste; and using recycled building
materials.The cost of the LEED portion of the design and
construction was an estimated 2% of the total, or $160,000,
with an annual payback of five years.
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