The Tarrant Regional Water District
Host: Laura Blalock
Our last tour was of the Tarrant Regional Water District. We got to see their LEED Gold status building and examine the many great featured that were incorporated into their design.
,This building had an impressive solar panel system on their roof. Their solar arrays installation was the top feature that brought this build in to Gold LEED status. Although the Dallas Veteran’s Adminitration building has topped it now… at its completion the Tarrant Regional Water District had the largest solar array system in the state of Texas.
Other elements behind their impressive Gold LEED statuts are the concrete flooring and counter tops, natural cleaning products used in maintenance, grid-tied Hydro-Electric Turbines, double pane Low-E Glass Fluorescent Lighting, natural cork flooring, insulated walls, native Austin Limestone, recycle based Furniture, High energy lighting features, native plants, grass that never gets watered and a drip irrigation system that collects rain water for the shrubs.
All these details that and even the painstaking recycle of construction debris they maintained during the construction process gave this building a much deserved gold LEED Rating.
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