LEED for New Construction Gold certified

Completed 2009

Casa Feliz Apartments, is a small, 0.4 acre infill single-room occupancy housing unit located in San Jose. Attempting LEED for New Construction Gold certification, the new building replaces an existing residential building with historic ties to the community. Green features include recycled content carpets, bamboo wood flooring in common areas, FSC certified wood, and low VOC emitting adhesives and cabinets. Over 90% of the construction waste was diverted from landfills, water use is reduced by 36% using all low-flow plumbing fixtures, and the building is expected to perform 26.8% beyond ASHRAE 90. The project also features a green roof, which provides increases roof insulation and cooling to the top floor, a reduction in ambient heat reflected from the roof, increases life to the roof substrate due to the blocking of ultraviolet wavelengths of light, and a planting palette that provides a habitat for birds and insects.

LEED for New Construction Gold certified

Completed 2006

The new 90,000 square-foot Gaia Napa Valley Hotel, owned by Butterfly Effect, is the first hotel in the U.S. to achieve a LEED Gold rating. The hotel has a guest room lodge, a reception building, and a conference center containing meeting rooms, a kitchen, and banquet room. A stormwater management plan has been implemented to reduce the impact on the community stormwater system and improve the performance over that of pre-development conditions. Roof surface water is collected and diverted to a central lagoon and then used to irrigate courtyard landscaping. The frontage of the entire site, exclusive of the entry drive, has been reconfigured into a series of bioswales and berms with an underdrain system and additional storage capacity, so that virtually no runoff leaves the site. Water conservation is achieved through efficient plumbing fixtures and irrigation systems that collectively reduce water consumption by more than 40%. The project is estimated to have energy savings of 24.9% beyond ASHRAE 90.1-1999 (and California's Title 24 requirements) and it has a solar array that supplies more than 10% of the electrical demand. As further evidence of Gaia Hotel's commitment to cutting-edge design strategies, the project has developed a green building educational outreach program, a green cleaning program that includes training for maintenance staff, and a landscape maintenance program that calls for the use of organic rather than synthetic fertilizers.

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LEED for New Construction Silver certified

Completed 2010

The Gaia Shasta Hotel, a LEED for New Construction Silver certified, is a 70,000 sf hotel on a ten-acre parcel in Anderson. The development includes 120 hotel rooms, a conference room, spa, restaurant and an outdoor green wedding space. The project has surpassed California's Title-24 standards by an estimated 20.4%. Water use is reduced by 36% through efficient plumbing fixtures and fittings. High recycled content and regionally manufactured materials were selected. Additionally, adhesives, sealants, paints and carpets used in the project are certified to meet
material emissions/indoor air quality testing standards. The hotel also features a green eduction, green cleaning, and an integrated pest management programs.