Walking the walk: the U.S. EPA leads by example with its newest laboratory--a LEED Gold-rated project.(Sustainable Development)

Building Design & Construction, November, 2003 by Flynn, Larry

For officials with the U.S. General Services Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the New England Regional Laboratory in North Chelmsford, Mass., represented more than a new $18 million testing facility: It was an opportunity for the agencies to demonstrate their commitment to the environment.

"It gave us an opportunity to put our money where our mouth is," says Bob Beane, the laboratory's facilities manager.

The EPA was in need of a more modern facility, having occupied its existing regional laboratory for 20 years. After years of planning, GSA invited developers to submit proposals for a new laboratory site that it would again lease. "They realized that the state of lab use and how things were done had changed," says...

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