We're Doing Our Part - TLC is green in practice as well as services. Our offices are carbon neutral following the purchase of renewable energy credits to offset the energy used for utilities. RECs allow you to purchase renewable energy even if your local utility doesn't offer it. Additionally, our Jacksonville office is LEED® certified, our Nashville office is LEED registered, and all of our offices have water and energy saving measures and recycling initiatives.

Vincent McNish is TLC's Newest LEED AP

Vincent McNish, PE, Project Mechanical Engineer at the Miami Office, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become TLC’s newest LEED Accredited Professional. He is Miami’s 7th LEED AP and TLC’s 75th.

Jacksonville Division Director Mark Gelfo Re-Elected to USGBC North Florida Board

Jacksonville Division Director Mark Gelfo, PE, LEED AP, CxA, has been re-elected to another term on the board of the U.S. Green Building Council North Florida Chapter. Mark played a key role in organizing the chapter and is a former president. This was the North Florida Chapter's first election in which all of the members could participate in the growth and development of the chapter.

UNF Parking Services Building Earns LEED Silver

The University of North Florida's Parking Services Building has achieved LEED® Silver Certification in the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating program. “This is a remarkable accomplishment, given the project’s small size (3,000 sf) and budget, and that it was not originally intended to be a LEED building.” noted Jacksonville Division Director Mark Gelfo, PE, LEED-AP, CxA. Close coordination among the team members, including the university’s facilities people, TLC engineers, project architect Tom Norman of Ebert Norman Brady Architects and project contractor Ty Bliss of W.G. Mills, helped keep the project on track. TLC provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and LEED consulting services for the building, which was constructed at a cost of $1.2 million.

Lehigh Valley MOB Achieves LEED Silver

Hot on the heels of Peace River Elementary School achieving USGBC LEED Silver comes news that Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest Medical Office Building in Allentown, PA, has achieved USGBC LEED for Core and Shell Pilot Silver certification! The project achieved 33 points – one shy of Gold! TLC served as LEED consultant and commissioning agent on the 4-story medical building. Hearty congratulations to Nashville’s Kim Shinn and Victoria Robertson for all of their hard work. This is TLC’s 14th LEED certified building, second LEED healthcare building, and first LEED certified building outside of Florida.

Peace River Elementary School is TLC's "Lucky 13" LEED Building

Peace River Elementary School in Charlotte Harbor has achieved U.S. Green Building Council LEED® Silver Certification. TLC teamed with Reynolds, Smith and Hills of Ft. Myers for the project. Some of the sustainable features are high-performance chillers and air handlers, low-flow faucets and toilets, motion-activated lights and indirect lighting. In addition, the ceiling and floor tiles, the carpeting, the filters on the air conditioning, ventilation and heating equipment, and the building's structural steel framing are all recycled or renewable materials.The building is TLC's 13th LEED certified building and the third TLC-engineered Charlotte County school to be LEED certified since March. Hat’s off to the Ft. Myers office, which provided structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection design services, and the Deerfield Beach office, which commissioned the building.

Charlotte County Schools Laud Ft. Myers “Green Team”

Shown left to right: Jeffrey Stash, James Wing, James Koehane, Brett Sands, and Michael Head from TLC's Ft. Myers office

Members of the Ft. Myers’ sustainable design team are getting to be regulars at Charlotte County school board meetings. For the second time in three months, Ft. Myers engineers were special guests at the meeting to receive a crystal USGBC LEED plaque, this one for Neil Armstrong Elementary School in Port Charlotte. With the March certification of Baker Center Early Childhood Center, Charlotte County School District has the distinction of having the first public school and the first elementary school in Florida to be LEED certified - and TLC provided engineering and LEED consulting services for both! Of the 34 LEED-certified buildings in Florida, 12 of them - 35% -- are TLC projects.

Deerfield Beach Expands its Green Team with New Mechanical Engineer

Alvaro Gonzalez, EI, LEED AP, has joined the Deerfield Beach staff as a mechanical engineer. With a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from America University in Bogata, Colombia, and nine years of MEP experience, Alvaro brings strong HVAC design skills to our Deerfield Beach team.

Charlotte County's Neil Armstrong Elementary School Becomes 1st LEED Certified Elementary School in Florida

Neil Armstrong Media Room/Photo Courtesy of Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc.

Charlotte County's new Neil Armstrong replacement elementary school in Port Charlotte has become the first elementary school in Florida to achieve U.S. Green Building Council LEED certification. The certification comes on the heels of Charlotte County's Baker Center Early Childhood Center becoming the first LEED certified public school. Neil Armstrong and Baker were two of the six Charlotte County schools destroyed by Hurricane Charley in August 2004. TLC teamed with Reynolds, Smith and Hills architect and provided sustainable mechanical, electrical, structural, plumbing and fire protection design, LEED consulting, energy modeling and commissioning services. Owens-Ames-Kimball served as construction manager. Neil Armstrong is TLC's 12th LEED certified building; in fact, of the 34 LEED certified buildings in Florida, TLC has provided engineering or commissioning services for 35%.

Bob Ricketts Is Named Tallahassee Division Director

Robert Ricketts, PE, LEED AP, CxA, has been named Director of the Tallahassee office. A firm principal whose most recent role was senior electrical engineer, Bob has been a staple of the Tallahassee staff for more than 15 years. He has lived in Tallahassee since 1981 and is well known in the engineering and architectural communities for his technical excellence, responsiveness to clients, and professionalism. Bob has more than 36 years of experience in all aspects of electrical engineering and project management. His portfolio includes numerous buildings at Florida State and Florida A&M universities, Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy, the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital campus, the Department of Management Services, and the Leon County School District. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida, Georgia, and Oklahoma. As an avid proponent of sustainable engineering, Bob is an accredited professional in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program and is an ACG-certified commissioning authority. His sustainable projects include the LEED Silver certified City of Tallahassee Solid Waste Facility and the Florida State University Life Science Research Center, which is registered for certification.

Mark Gelfo Appointed to ACG Board

Jacksonville Division Director Mark Gelfo, PE, LEED AP, CxA, has been appointed to the board of the American Commissioning Group (ACG), the nation’s leading association of certified commissioning authorities. Mark learned of the appointment while attending the ACG’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where he gave a well-received presentation on Commissioning of Emergency Power Systems. Commissioning is an integral part of today’s high-performance and sustainable buildings because it verifies that the complex building systems and processes work as designed. A leader in sustainable design in Northeast Florida, Mark is Immediate Past President and Education Committee Chair for the USGBC North Florida Chapter.

Matthew Craig Passes LEED AP Exam

Matthew Craig, a structural EI in the Cocoa office, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Matt is the 7th LEED AP in Cocoa and only the 6th structural engineer at TLC to acquire LEED accreditation.

John Riner Acquires LEED AP

John Riner, PE, MBA, LEED AP, electrical project manager in Cocoa, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. He is Cocoa’s 6th LEED AP. John’s projects include the Toho Water Authority Administration Building in Kissimmee and the Cocoa Utilities Transmission and Distribution Warehouse in Cocoa, both of which are seeking LEED certification.

Three TLC Staffers Become Certified Commissioning Authorities

From Left: Ryan Fryman, Richard Lindburg and Al LaPera

Jacksonville Electrical Project Engineer Ryan Fryman, Tallahassee Electrical Project Engineer Richard Lindburg, and Tampa Senior Project Manager Al LaPera all passed the ACG commissioning authority exam to become certified CxA's. The test was offered at the Annual American Commissioning Group (ACG) Conference last week. TLC now has 16 certified commissioning authorities. The certification is especially important because commissioning is an integral part of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building certification.

Tthe Charlotte County School Board at their April meeting recognized the outstanding LEED contributions provided by our Ft. Myers staffers by presenting them a framed U.S. Green Building Council LEED for New Construction Certificate and a USGBC glass plaque for the recently completed Baker Center in Punta Gorda. Brett McKinstry, Jim Keohane, Mike Head, Jacob Kaye, Lawrin Ellis, and Jim Wing were on hand to receive the certificate and plaque.

Shown left to right: Lawrin Ellis, Jim Wing, Jim Keohane, Mike Head, Jacob Kaye and Brett McKinstry.

Ft. Myers staffers and other members of the USGBC LEED-Certified Baker Center design team received
framed LEED certificates and a LEED plaque from the Charlotte County School Board.

The Baker Center Early Childhood Center in Punta Gorda has become the first public school building in Florida to achieve U.S. Green Building Council LEED certification. The early childhood center and home of Charlotte County's Head Start and Early Head Start Program was destroyed by Hurricane Charley in 2004 and was housed in modular classrooms ever since. "It's exciting to know we have a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility that is not only safe for our children but environmentally friendly," said Baker Center Manager Debi Bell. TLC Ft. Myers teamed with Parker/Mudgett/Smith Architects and provided structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, communications, and technology design services and LEED administration for the building, while TLC Deerfield Beach provided commissioning services. Baker Center is TLC's 11th LEED Certified building.

Mechanical Engineer Donia Bessa has passed her Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Her business card is filling up fast – she’s also a registered Professional Engineer, a Certified Plumbing Designer and a Healthcare Facility Design Professional. Donia is the Healthcare Division's fifth LEED AP.

Miami Division Director Angel Lorenzo, PE, passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Angel is the Miami Office's sixth LEED AP and TLC’s 75th. Among the office's LEED-registered projects is Biscayne Landing, the $730 million master-planned community in North Miami.

Senior Electrical Engineer Brett Sands, PE, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Brett is the ninth LEED AP at the Ft. Myers office and the 73rd LEED AP firm-wise. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

LEED Accredited Professionals from TLC’s Jacksonville office show off their green TLC LEED shirts. All 15 staffers passed the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to attain the LEED AP credential. TLC rewards each employee who becomes LEED accredited with these specially designed shirts. The plaque in the picture is for the office’s Silver LEED CI certification. Shown above (from front row center going counterclockwise) are Emily Carrier, Rafi Wartan, Leonard Spears, Harry Waller, Dick Worth, Ben Cole, Ryan Fryman, Mike Giordano, DJ Parker, Mark Gelfo, Ben Roseborough, Butch Tucker, Mark Murphy, Mac Coble, and Gerald Versluys.

Mechanical Engineer Rachel Cook got a nice gift for New Year’s – she passed Florida’s professional engineering exam to became a registered PE. Rachel, who is also a LEED Accredited Professional, joined TLC’s Orlando Division in 2005. Last summer, her commitment to green building design spurred her to transfer to Green Guides Sustainability for Architecture, a TLC company specializing in sustainable design and LEED® consulting.

Associate and Senior Mechanical Project Engineer Carmine Rende of the Ft. Myers office has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Carmine is the eighth LEED AP in TLC-Ft. Myers and the 72nd firmwide.

Jacob Kaye, PE, an Electrical Project Engineer in Ft. Myers, has passed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Jacob is Ft. Myers’ seventh LEED AP and TLC’s 71st.

Parrish Medical Center’s Port St. John Health Center and Nature Preserve has achieved USGBC LEED Silver Certification. The medical office building is the first health care facility in the state to achieve LEED certification. Congratulations to Director of Healthcare Engineering Michael Sheerin, Parrish-PSJ Project Manager Bob Danner, and the entire design team. TLC teamed with RTKL Architects of Dallas for the project, which is TLC’s 9th LEED certified building. Of the 24 LEED certified buildings in Florida, we have provided design and/or commissioning services for 37.5% of them!

Jacksonville’s Marketing Specialist Emily Carrier has passed the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Emily is the 15th LEED Accredited Professional in the Jacksonville office and the 71st firm-wide.

John Rippel, PE, CGD, LEED AP, CxA, will give a presentation on the “Fundamentals of Ground Source Heat Pumps” at an educational forum hosted by the American Ground Water Trust on Jan. 17 in Tallahassee. The forum, entitled “Using the Earth’s Renewable Energy,” is aimed at engineers, architects, planners, and professionals in related fields. John, who is a mechanical project engineer in the Tampa office, is one of only two certified geothermal engineers in the State of Florida. For more information or to register for the conference, click here.

Dick Worth, PE, LEED-AP, senior mechanical engineer in Jacksonville, just added another credential to his name – Healthcare Facility Design Professional. Dick is TLC’s second engineer to earn the HFDP credential, which is offered by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers in conjunction with the American Society of Healthcare Engineering and the American Hospital Association.

Orlin Velinov, PE, mechanical project engineer in Miami, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. Orlin is Miami’s 5th LEED AP and TLC’s 70th.

Carmine Rende, PE, (left) and Nick Mancuso, PE, (right) both senior project engineers in Ft. Myers, have become Certified Sustainable Development Professionals. The credential, offered by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), identifies individuals who have demonstrated high levels of technical expertise in energy management and environmental practices. Nick and Carmine are lifetime members of the AEE.

Mechanical Project Manager Donald J. Parker, CPD, LEED AP, is now the 14th LEED Accredited Professional in Jacksonville. With DJ joining TLC’s green team, Jacksonville has become the first division to meet the goal of having all PMs and above become LEED Accredited. TLC now has 70 LEED Accredited Professionals.

Tallahassee Division Director John Hardesty, who is already a registered Professional Engineer, LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Commissioning Authority, and Certified Energy Manager, has added another certification: Certified Sustainable Development Professional. This new credential, offered by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), identifies individuals who have demonstrated high levels of technical expertise in energy management and environmental practices. Certification requires a three-day mandatory AEE training course and passage of a four-hour exam. Applicants must be a PE, CEM, have a bachelor of science degree plus more than six years of engineering experience, or be an engineering technician with more than 10 years of experience.

Ben Cole, PE, HFDP, a firm principal and Senior Mechanical Project Engineer in Jacksonville, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. He is TLC’s 69th LEED AP and Jacksonville’s 13th. Ben, who is a Professional Engineer and a Healthcare Facility Design Professional, can now add LEED AP to his growing list of accreditations.

Tallahassee’s Green Team was out in force at the 2nd Annual Campus and Community Sustainability Conference Oct. 15 and 16 at Florida State University. The conference drew more than 250 attendees from across Florida. Senior Electrical Engineer Bobby Ricketts, Electrical Project Engineer Richard Lindburg, Mechanical Project Engineer John Fortenberry, and Mechanical Project Engineer Doug Law manned TLC’s booth while Division Director John Hardesty worked the room as only he can – in fact, Division 31 picked up a commissioning job from the City of Tallahassee. Marketing’s Mike Miller did such a great job on the booth that the other exhibitors were green with envy. The conference was presented by LLT Building Corporation and hosted by FSU's Sustainable Campus and Community Committee and the Council for Sustainable Florida.

Congratulations to Brian Lomel and the Deerfield Beach office, whose Broward County South Regional Library just achieved U.S. Green Building Council LEED® Silver certification. TLC commissioned the HVAC, lighting dimming control, and domestic water systems for the $13.8 million library, which was designed by Marvin Scharf & Associates of Ft. Lauderdale. Our commissioning services included review of DD and CD submittals, production of Design and Construction phase commissioning plans, shop drawing reviews, and reviewing pre-functional and functional testing results. The library features a multi-purpose room, a computer library, and several collections including the largest collection of children’s books in the county. Florida now has 22 LEED-certified buildings and TLC has provided sustainable design, LEED consulting and/or commissioning services on eight of them – or 36%!

Senior Plumbing/Fire Protection Engineer John Alford, PE, CIPE, and Mechanical Project Manager Clark Hunt Jr., both from the Orlando Division, have passed the U.S. Green Building Council LEED exam to become LEED Accredited Professionals. This makes six LEED APs in the Orlando Division and 69 firm-wide. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the USGBC's green building rating system.

The City of Dunedin’s new Community Center has received LEED Silver certification from U.S. Green Building Council. TLC teamed with Collman & Karsky of Tampa for the $8.2 million building. The engineering team, including project manager Ray Stacey, Kevin Keiter, Jon Milam, Rob Shorey, Ron Schleich, Gerry Crnkovich, Erin Gessner Harvey, and Santiago Beron, designed the MEP/FP systems to be eco-friendly and efficient. 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 additional cost for the LEED portion of the design and construction was an estimated 2% of the total, or $160,000, with a payback of five years. Dunedin Community Center is TLC’s seventh LEED-certified building.

Jacksonville Division Director Mark Gelfo, PE, LEED-AP, CxA, served double-duty at a sustainability conference Sept. 20 hosted by the Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA). He and Susan Cleveland, LEED-AP, from ASD in Jacksonville, presented a case study of TLC Jacksonville’s new office, which achieved LEED-CI, Silver certification. Mark also served as moderator for a panel discusson on sustainability’s impact on design decisions.

Mark Murphy, PE, electrical project engineer in Jacksonville, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED-Accredited Professional. This makes 12 LEED-AP’s in the Jacksonville office and 69 firm-wide.

Beth Tomlinson, PE, LEED-AP, mechanical engineer in the Miami Division, gave a one-hour presentation to the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Building Enclosure Council on Sept. 11 about the USGBC LEED program and its impact on architecture. She presented before a packed house of more than 50 people, most of whom were South Floridia architects. Beth is the new president-elect of the Miami Chapter of ASHRAE.

Mark Murphy, PE, electrical project engineer in Jacksonville, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED-Accredited Professional. This makes 12 LEED-AP’s in the Jacksonville office and 69 firm-wide.

Jagdish Prasad, senior mechanical project manager in the Orlando Division, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design exam to become a LEED-Accredited Professional. He is TLC's 68th LEED-AP. Jagdish has more than 32 years of mechanical engineering experience and is a lifetime member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from BIT Sindri, India, and his master's degree and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing has been touched with gold - LEED Gold. After initially achieving Silver certification last month, the project was resubmitted to the U.S. Green Building Council for review and recertification. This is FAU's first LEED Gold-certified building. "Everyone at TLC was confident we could achieve LEED Gold for this building. We're thrilled for the University and honored to be a part of such an important and ground-breaking endeavor," said Vince Briones, PE, LEED-AP, manager of TLC's sustainable design services, who spearheaded the effort to gain Gold certification.

TLC's Deerfield Beach office teamed with SchenkelShultz Architecture of Orlando on the new three-story, 75,000 sf building. "The certification reflects the university's commitment to the environment and to the comfort, health and well-being of its staff and students," said Brian Lomel, PE, LEED-AP, director of TLC's Deerfield Beach office, who led the engineering team that provided mechanical and electrical design and LEED consulting services.

The building has CO2 monitoring, indoor chemical & pollutant control, low-emitting material, 25% recycled content & reduced energy consumption saves over 17% in cost compared to a traditional building.

TLC Engineering for Architecture, already a leader in sustainable building design services in the Southeast, is becoming a greener organization in practice as well.

John Douglas Benz, AIA, Chairman, announced that the board of directors has approved a series of sustainability policies aimed at helping the environment. One key initiative is for TLC to become to become carbon neutral by purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs) to offset the energy used for power, lighting, heating and cooling in the firm's nine offices. The credits will go to a portfolio of small landfill gas-to-energy projects throughout the U.S that are certified by "Green-e", the nation's leading independent renewable energy certification and verification program. We use these projects because the methane they destroy for fuel has 21 times the global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Most of the world's climate scientists agree that the emission of greenhouses gases has a significant negative impact on the climate and global warming.

We will also purchase renewable energy credits for all travel associated with green projects, green design services and commissioning. Employees are being asked to do their part by turning off lights in work spaces and conference rooms when they aren't in use and shutting down computers and other electronic equipment at night and on weekends. Water-conservation measures are also being initiated. Several of TLC's offices have had water- and energy-saving policies in place for some time with much success.

"This endeavor illustrates TLC's firm belief that we are all stewards of the environment. As a firm, we are passionate about sustainability, not just in green building design but in the way we live our lives," said Chief Executive Office Debra Lupton, AIA.

A member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and a leader in Florida's green building design movement, TLC has provided sustainable engineering services for six of the 19 buildings in Florida that are certified by the USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) rating program. One of those six is TLC's new office space in Jacksonville, which recently achieved USGBC LEED Silver certification to become the first LEED for Commercial interiors project in Florida. All of TLC's new regional offices will be designed to meet LEED certification requirements; in fact, our new office space in Nashville, which is currently under construction, is being designed for LEED Silver certification.

Victor Diaz, PE, electrical project engineer in the Orlando Division, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) exam to become a LEED-Accredited Professional.

TLC's President and Chief Operating Officer Winston W. "Bud" Gardner has passed the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) exam to become a LEED-Accredited Professional. Bud is TLC's 66th LEED-AP.

Alim Kazi, PE, LEED-AP, has joined TLC as a mechanical project manager in Deerfield Beach. Alim has more than 20 years of experience in design, construction coordination of mechanical HVAC systems and project management for office buildings, healthcare projects, schools, universities, hotels and residential buildings. He has his master's degree in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Add three more TLC staffers to our list of LEED-APs: Harry Waller, EI, mechanical engineer in Jacksonville; Jerry Russo, PE, electrical project manager in Orlando; and Moncef Hadiji, PE, RCDD, senior electrical engineer in Cocoa.

Two Deerfield staffers passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) exam to become LEED-Accredited Professionals: Steve Rollin, PE, RCDD, an associate and senior electrical engineer, and Mike Baluyot, EI, an electrical graduate engineer.

Raul Mastrapa, PE, a TLC associate and senior mechanical engineer in the Miami office, has passed the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) exam to become a LEED-Accredited Professional. Raul is the fifth LEED-AP at TLC-Miami and TLC's 64th.

The U.S. Green Building Council-Central Florida Chapter has selected the Orange County Sheriff's Office Sector II building project for its Legacy Project. The goal of the Legacy Project is for the USGBC-Central Florida to partner with the project team and provide pro bono assistance through a peer review process on its design, construction and maintenance of the building, which will be registered for LEED-certification. "This is a win-win for the environment, and a win-win for the project by capitalizing on a large pool of experience to achieve the common goal of sustainability and reduced energy and water consumption," said Tony Aguerrevere, manager of the capital project division for Orange County Government. The Sector II facility will be built on a 4.5-acre site on Lake Underhill Road near Rouse Road. The approximately 22,000-sf office and operations