2125 W North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
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| 2125 W North Avenue | |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Date | to 1924 |
| Building Type | Factory |
| Construction System | brick, wood |
| Climate | Cold Temperate |
| Context | Urban |
| Architectural Style | 1920s Factory Vernacular |
| Street Address | 2125 West North Avenue Walk Score |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Unknown |
| Area | 14,964 square feet |
| Stories | 2 |
[edit] Center for Neighborhood Technology
| Green Building Modification (2000-2004) | |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology | |
| Designer | Jonathan Boyer |
| Date | 2000 to 2004 |
| Modification Type | Adaptive Reuse |
| Building Type | Office |
| Construction System | wood, brick |
| Architectural Style | 1920s Factory Vernacular |
| Green Certification | LEED Platinum Certified (version 2.0) |
| Green Certification Score | 52 |
"The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) moved into an eighty-year-old former textile factory in 1987, leaving its home in downtown Chicago for a transit-friendly neighborhood on Chicago’s near Northwest Side. We renovated the upper two floors of the building in a then energy-efficient manner, in accordance with our organizational philosophy of promoting urban sustainability. The building became the first non-toxic one in Illinois and CNT earned an award for having the most energy-efficient building in the state."
"We began our second renovation in 2000, when we found that we had outgrown the furnished upper two floors of the building. With this renovation we chose to design to the highest standards of the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™ Version 2.0. LEED’s integrated approach to building design and renovation has confirmed and expanded upon many of CNT’s design principals and policies. In December 2005, LEED officially certified the building as “Platinum,” making it one of the country’s most high performing buildings; LEED had previously certified only twelve other buildings as Platinum."—CNT
| Building Details | |
| Client | Center for Neighborhood Technology |
| Cost | $1,200,000 |
| Annual Building Energy Use per Unit Area | 173.5 kWh/square meter/year kWh/m2/year |
| Area | 14,964 square feet |
| Stories | 2 |
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[edit] Project Team
- Owner: Center for Neighborhood Technology
- Architect: Jonathan Boyer (now of Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- HVAC Engineer: EME Consulting Engineers
- Lighting: Siemens
- Commissioning: JT Katrakis & Associates
- LEED/Environmental Consultant: JT Katrakis & Associates
- General Contractor: Phoenix Builders
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- "Center for Neighborhood Technology", by Jean Carroon, ArchitectureWeek No. 517, 2011.0511, p E1.1.
- Renovation Project Description and Case Study at Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) web site, viewed 2009.0909
- About the Renovation, viewed 2011.0511
- LEED Scoresheet at U.S. Green Building Council web site, viewed 2009.1002
- Regional Green Building Case Study Project: A post‐occupancy study of LEED projects in Illinois (PDF - 3.4MB) at CNT web site, viewed 2011.0511
- CNT case study (4-page PDF, from Regional Green Building Case Study Project) at USGBC Illinois web site, viewed 2011.0511
- CNT at Farr Associates web site, viewed 2011.0511
