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Parkhill, Smith and Cooper was really interesting a I learned a ton of stuff about LEED during our visit

 

We first started off in one of their conference rooms and got a short presentation on the kind of things that the company does. We found out that they are the only LEED company in West Texas, and they have actually been very successful in building some buildings that are LEED certified in this area, something I never would have thought. Their building,of course, is LEED certified, but he informed us that the new Rawls College of Business is as well and I thought that was super interesting because I had no idea. Everyone always talks about how nice it is inside but I've never heard anyone mention the LEED part. After the short presentation we got to take a tour of the buildings.

 

this is one of the work areas. The space is open completely to allow people to work together, and even the semi-closed off offices didnt have doors, I thought that was really cool and interesting. The ceiling has air vents that have a special system that controls air flow and recycles air.

 

 

 

Here is one label that they have all around explaining what they have done in that part to make it more energy efficient. I thought it was really cool that they did that so that people could recognize it

 

here is a diagram of the green roof they built on top. It was a huge risk to put a green roof on the top of the building because we live in such a dry climate but it is a really cool idea!

 

next, we had to climb probobly the scariest ladder ever to get up on the green roof and see what it looked like

 

here it is! obviously a little dry looking but it is the middle of  what is supposed to be winter as well as it being in the dessert so it's actually not too bad.