Dallas, Texas (3 April 2009) – PageSoutherlandPage, an award-winning architecture and engineering firm, announced today that the Citi North Texas Service Building is the most recent building to officially achieve the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified Level from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a coalition of building industry leaders promoting sustainability in the built environment.

The Citi North Texas Service Building is located in the Southwest’s premier business and residential master-planned community of Las Colinas in Irving, Texas.

The 130,000 square-foot building was designed to consolidate Citi’s commercial, automotive and mortgage groups into a single building to leverage the synergies these groups share and to streamline processes. Citi has committed to achieving environmental certification globally (LEED in the United States) for the construction of all new office buildings and operations centers.
As a single-source architecture and engineering firm, the PageSoutherlandPage team of experts contributed comprehensive professional services on the project including architectural, interior design, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering, energy modeling and LEED consulting.

Says PageSoutherlandPage Dallas associate principal and project manager Eric R. Kuehmeier, AIA, LEED, “It is a privilege to work with clients like Citi because of their commitment to sustainable designs that reduce the impact on environmental resources and lower the life cycle costs of maintaining and operating facilities. They have taken a leadership position that recognizes the value of environmental stewardship with these triple benefits: social, economical and environmental. We are very pleased to have partnered with Citi on this exciting project.”

The building exterior envelope consists of concrete wall panels with punched windows with high performance vision and spandrel glazing in clear anodized aluminum frames. The building’s public entrances are articulated with silver metal wall panels to break-up the building mass and enhance way finding for visitors. All of the rooftop mechanical equipment is screened to blend with the building facade and to minimize sound transmissions to the surrounding commercial and residential neighbors. The landscape incorporates native plants that are drought tolerant and require less water to survive during Texas’ long, hot summers. Rainwater is monitored on site to reduce the impact to adjacent developments and downstream neighbors.

The PageSoutherlandPage approach to sustainable design is based on the fundamental principles of being sensitive of how buildings touch the land, relate to the terrain and respond to the environmental features, all while reducing unnecessary space, reusing building components and recycling post-consumer materials into the building. Every building design impacts communities as well as end-users where they work, live, learn and play.

PageSoutherlandPage Project Team
Eric Kuehmeier, AIA, LEED AP – Project Manager
Garry Walling, - Design Architect
Bill Phillips, AIA - Project Architect
Kris Walsh, IIDA, TID, LEED AP – Senior Interior Designer
Lindsey Mathias, TID - Interior Designer
Brad Cheshire, P.E. - Structural
Kurt Van Doran, P.E. - Mechanical
Dale Robinson, P.E. - Electrical
Ron Wyman, P.E. - Energy Modeling
Frank Chung - Architectural
Yanghee Pierce, LEED AP - LEED Champion