Sweetwater Creek Visitor Center, Lithia Springs, Georgia
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| Sweetwater Creeck Visitor Center | |
| Designer | Gerding Collaborative, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Location | Lithia Springs, Georgia, USA |
| Date | to 2006 |
| Building Type | Exhibition and Exposition |
| Climate | Hot Temperate |
| Context | Riverside |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Green Certification | LEED Platinum Certified |
| Green Certification Score | 52 |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Sweetwater Creek State Park |
| Cost | $1,514,393 |
| Area | 8,700 square feet (810 square meters) |
| Stories | 1 |
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| Other Details | 38% of roof area is used for rainwater collection; 10,000-gallon cistern. |
"High performance building envelope, composting toilets, vegetated roof, rainwater capture and reuse, pervious pavement, bio-retention ponds and photovoltaic panels. These are all terms associated with green or sustainable buildings. These are also some of the elements that have been incorporated into the new Visitor Center at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Douglas County. The new visitor center opens to the public in the summer of 2006. It will be one of Georgia’s greenest buildings and will serve as a full-scale demonstration for designing, constructing, and operating green buildings."
"Sweetwater Creek State Park, located thirty minutes from downtown Atlanta, is a State Conservation Park. Its purpose is to preserve and protect the many natural and cultural resources of the park. During the initial planning stages of the visitor center there was no question that the building has to serve as a model of environmentally responsible building construction. At the time design started, the building owner, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, had already established itself as a national leader in the green building movement. It was, therefore, a natural fit for the building to be designed and constructed to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards developed by the U. S. Green Building Council. According to Becky Kelley, Director of the Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, "The LEED rating criteria is an excellent tool for us to use when designing and constructing our buildings. Using the LEED criteria ensures that our buildings are designed and constructed to achieve our mission of protecting and preserving our natural resources."
"The Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitor Center is an 8,743-ft. building that includes a retail area, offices, large exhibit space, restrooms, classrooms and a learning laboratory. The total construction cost was $1,973,647 including sitework and exhibits. The cost for the building only was $1,514,393 or $173 per square foot."—iGreen Build
[edit] Project Credits
- Architect: Gerding Collaborative
- LEED Consultant: Donna McIntire
- Civil Engineer: Long Engineering
- Structural Engineer: Palmer Engineering
- Electrical Engineer: Barnett Consulting Engineers
- Mechanical/ Plumbing Engineer: Johnson, Spellman & Associates
- Landscape Architect: jb+a
- Contractor: Mooney Construction
- Commissioning Agent: Commissioning and Green Building Solutions, Inc.
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- "Sweetwater Creek" by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 330, 2007.0418, p E1.1.
- Project Description, iGreen Build, Viewed on 2009.0909 http://www.igreenbuild.com/_coreModules/content/contentDisplay_print.aspx?contentID=2666
- LEED Scoresheet (PDF)
