LEED Plantinum for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus

October 6, 2011 - Today it was announced that The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus has been awarded LEED-NC Platinum certification from the United States Green Building Council – making it the largest, non-profit LEED-NC Platinum facility in the world. NBBJ were the building architects and prime consultant.

The campus landscape by GGN integrates pools of captured rainwater and a milliion-gallon stormwater cistern below the central plaza, which captures runoff from paved surfaces for use in the landscape and in the buildings. Native and edible plants dominate the landscape, along with salavaged scrap stone cobbles and other domestically-sourced materials.