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Photo GalleryNew homes, renovated older homes, office buildings, nature centers, shopping centers—any building can be green. Here we feature some of the Ozarks greenest buildings….
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Contact us if you’d like to have your green building featured in our photo gallery. Please include a picture and a brief explanation of the building's green features.
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| Green Circle Shopping Center LEEDŽ Platinum- Structural steel and storefront aluminum contain a high percentage of recycled content, windows are double-glazed, and composite wood cladding meets standards for solar reflectivity. Interior technologies include 40 geothermal wells paired with an energy and heat recovery ventilator, and dual-flush toilets that are filled with rainwater collected in a 10,000-gallon rooftop cistern. The Center, open to the public as a restaurant and green learning center, also has a “living” roof, planted intensively with indigenous, drought-resistant species. | Discovery Center of Springfield is the first LEED®Gold Green Building Certification in Southwest Missouri. While doubling the exhibit and program space, the building also serves as an exhibit itself with over 50 educational signs highlighting its many green features—including, among others, two cisterns providing grey water for toilets and irrigation, a roof top garden, pervious concrete, P-V panels and lots of daylighting. | |
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| photo by Architectural Imageworks, LLC | photo © 2008 Gayle Babcock, Architectural Imageworks, LLC | |
| Installing rain barrels on downspouts are an excellent way of reusing rain water for outdoor watering needs. | Habitat for Humanity LEED® Platinum house, Springfield, MO Platinum LEED status—the highest level of certification, the first in the country built by a Habitat for Humanity affiliate. | |
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| This house is sited for beneficial usage of sun & breezes with deep roof overhangs for summer shade and the windows & interior of the building designed for maximum natural ventilation, day-lighting and air circulation. It has a light colored metal roof, eco-friendly insulation, radiant floor heat, a composting toliet, and photovoltaic solar collectors. Rain water is collected & re-used on the property. The property has organic gardens and is located adjacent to ecologically managed forests, overlooking a lovely Ozark river southeast of Springfield | ||
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| (photo by Patina Campbell) Built in 2008 with energy efficient options: 16 seer two stage heating and cooling with dual fuel heat pumps & radiant floor heating in the master bedroom, Peachtree 700 series windows, hi-efficiency water heaters, & "greener" spray foam insulation (the newest technology: 1.2 pound open-cell foam in the exterior walls). "Green" advantages: saves an average of 40-50% on heating/cooling bills, some agricultural content, no need to ever re-insulate, little to no need for "trimming" (preventing countless bags of waste in the landfill). | Wildcat Glades Audubon Conservation Nature Center, Joplin, MO Innovative "green" technologies and sustainable practices create a truly distinctive silver L.E.E.D. certified building in keeping with the mission of appreciating, understanding and conserving the natural world. This Center incorporates many green features, including a living roof, large skylight, the use of many recycled materials, a large cistern to collect rainwater and many more. The amount of money saved on the Center utilities with green technologies is estimated to be approximately $6,000-10,000 annually! Visit the Center’s website for more information. | |
| Ozarks Green Building Coalition | 636 W. Republic Road, Suite D108, Springfield, MO 65807 | ogbc.info@gmail.com | 417-569-0335 |