How your parking garage can benefit from both LEED and Parksmart
Did you know that the LEED and Parksmart rating systems work hand in hand? Recently, GBCI released the Parksmart and LEED Synergies guidance document, which provides a detailed list of credits within LEED that can also apply toward earning Parksmart certification.
Garage at Post Office Square
The Park and the Garage at Post Office Square demonstrate what can happen when a visionary idea is realized through excellent design and thoughtful implementation. Supported structurally and financially by a belowground seven-level garage, this 1.7-acre park stands is a model for center city parks.
Garage at Post Office Square’s Parksmart certification recognizes the project’s parking performance, operational excellence, and commitment to continuous improvement over its 26 years of operation. These achievements include:
Stories from the parking lot: LEEP campaign spotlights
Last year’s LEEP campaign participants and award winners added roughly 65 million square feet of high-performance lighting in parking facilities and achieved an estimated 60 percent in energy savings. From military bases to residential housing complexes, hospitals to major retail chains, real estate developers to universities, the 2016 award winners represented the best new projects and retrofits in parking facility lighting across the United States.
How your LEED project can achieve Parksmart certification
How Boston parks smart
This article was originally published as "Smart Park" in the March/April issue of USGBC+. Read the original version.
Boston has almost 7.5 million square feet of designated, off-street parking space. Wide swaths of concrete, asphalt and steel, often spattered with oil from vehicles and salt from roadways. The parking facilities in this East Coast city—and across the country—have long been an egregious land-hog. But that is changing.
Take an online, instructor-led class with IPI’s Parksmart Advisor Training
Our journey with USGBC as an Education Partner has led IPI to create a new mode of training and delivery platform for our Parksmart Advisor Training. IPI’s newest training delivery option for this program is a blend of a "learn at your own pace" online course and the instructor-led class traditionally offered.
Your top Parksmart questions answered
If you’ve got questions about Parksmart, we’re here to help! Parksmart is the world’s only rating system advancing sustainable mobility through smarter parking structure design and operation. Parksmart is owned and operated by GBCI, the premier organization independently recognizing global excellence in green business industry performance and practice.
Apply by June 2 for the Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking awards
Applications for the 2017 Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking (LEEP) campaign are rolling in! Submit your parking site for consideration for a 2017 LEEP Award.
Grow your knowledge on sustainable parking with these courses
If you are looking to learn more about Parksmart or sustainability in parking, look no further! Our USGBC Education Partner International Parking Institute (IPI) has you covered with best-in-class educational offerings designed to help grow your knowledge.
Forest Home Garage at Cornell University
Constructed in 2009, Forest Home Garage is part of the parking system at Cornell University, which hosts a population of 30,000 (inclusive of 20,000 students) and manages 10,000 parking spaces.
This garage contributes to a campus wide initiative to reach carbon neutrality by 2035 by incorporating energy efficient measures in the construction of this cast-in-place garage. The 254-space garage encourages bike usage and offers public spaces for place-making.
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