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Buckner Companies and Skanska USA Building Win SC&RA Environmental Award

“SC&RA named Buckner Companies, Graham, N.C., and Skanska USA Building, Inc., New York, New York, the first winners of the Association’s Environmental Award on April 16 during closing night ceremonies of the Annual Conference in San Diego, Calif.

Buckner was recognized primarily because its new headquarters simultaneously serves as a vivid demonstration of material salvage and recycling and as a showplace for the steel erector’s trade. Ultimately, 83 tons of steel – more than 40 percent of all the steel in the building – came directly from Buckner’s boneyard. The completed project features reconditioned columns and girders for the exposed steel frame, reused corrugated metal deck to support roofs and floors, and salvaged curved wood glue-laminated roof beams, which were overlapped to create a clerestory.

The 15-ton pedestrian bridge that links the new and existing buildings was recovered from the University of North Carolina campus, where Buckner had first installed it 30 years before. And two pieces of 15-foot girder salvaged from Clemson University’s Littlejohn Coliseum form the walls of a new conference room, which cantilevers out the front to shelter the main entrance. The sustainable building effort grew to embrace many other environmental measures.

Since 1995, Skanska has been a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Skanska was the first construction company in the Americas to meet the International Organization for Standardization’s rigorous ISO14001criteria for environmental management. Skanska was recently ranked the top global leader of green building by Construction magazine. Skanska Senior Vice President Beth Heider has been elected as a future chair of the U.S. Building Council’s Board of Directors.

Skanska USA headquarters in the Empire State Building capitalizes on the abundance of natural daylight entering the space from large windows. Lighting and occupancy sensors throughout the workspaces complement a high-efficiency lighting system. Cooling comes from a pressurized raised floor air-distribution system with an air diffuser near each workstation for individual controls; heating, from perimeter steam convection. The building maintenance team uses all green cleaning products and receives training on properly maintaining the waterless urinal. Because of these and other practices, management representatives from the Empire State building routinely tour Skanska USA offices to showcase the space and use it as a benchmark for future tenant space requirements.”

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