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The GBS portfolio includes projects ranging from elementary schools and hospitals to commercial office buildings and performing arts centers. We've successfully managed the certification of over a hundred LEED® projects and have hundreds more in process. Our consultants have managed certification efforts in each LEED® product category and our technical consultants have delivered significant, long-term cost savings for clients pursuing energy efficiency measures and improved indoor environmental quality. The database below provides a comprehensive look at each of these projects. To get started, simply select a market.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.0 Certification Level: Silver Location: Clackamas, OR Clackamas High School This new 265,000 SF high school building incorporates numerous integrated green building strategies including natural ventilation, extensive use of daylight with dimming controls for electric lighting, high-performance glazing and down-sized air conditioning chillers. The project team used a performance based compensation contract to assist in funding sustainable design solutions and to create an incentive for optimizing energy performance.   Project Profile

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC Certification Level: Gold Location: Corvallis, OR Corvallis High School The new Corvallis High School is a full-replacement facility for the Corvallis community�s seventy year old high school structure. It is to be built on the existing school's 31-acre in-town site, while the current high school remains in operation. Included is the new 220,000 SF school building serving 1600 students, three remodeled professional/technical lab buildings, track/football/soccer stadium with bleachers and concessions, bicycle and bus waiting structures, parking areas, a softball field and athletics support buildings. Mature trees and the community's restored Dixon Creek that bisects the school site are dominant site features.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.2 Certification Level: — Location: Boca Raton, FL Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering The 90,000 sf new facility on the FAU Boca Raton campus is being designed in partnership with GBS consulting to realize an estimated potable water savings of greater than 40% and an overall energy savings of over 30%. The building will incorporate on site photovoltaic and wind energy systems. These high-performance features will simultaneously serve as an ongoing hands-on learning lab for the faculty and students for years to come.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.0 Certification Level: Gold Location: Arcata, CA HSU, Behavioral and Social Sciences Building The 84,000 SF Behavioral & Social Sciences Building at Humboldt State University was opened for classes fall of 2008  The building has numerous green features including, bicycle parking, low-flow plumbing fixtures, highly reflective perivous surface materials and low-emitting and reionally harvested materials.  The Behavioral & Social Sciences Building is home to ten departments and includes lecture rooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and the CSU Center for American Indian Studies.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.0 Certification Level: Gold Location: Portland, OR Lewis & Clark College, Howard Hall Located on the North Campus of Lewis and Clark College, Howard Hall will consolidate the many disciplines of the College's Social Sciences Division, while providing expanded campus wide classroom space. Howard Hall anchors the development of the academic quad in accordance with the master plan seeking to capitalize on the topography, views and history of the College. The exterior brick-clad, gabled roofed forms of the building will be compatible with the historic features of the Campus.

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Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.1 Certification Level: Silver Location: Corvallis, OR Linus Pauling Middle School Linus Pauling Middle School is a new 127,300 SF building. The building replaces a middle school built in 1957. The new school will accommodate 750 students. The classrooms have been clustered into houses for smaller student groupings with the library/media center centrally located. The school will be used as a community meeting space, and is adjacent to the Boys and Girls Club and the Osborn Aquatic Center. The classrooms will have natural light and operable windows, and the building has been designed to exceed the local energy code.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.1 Certification Level: Gold Location: Corvallis, OR Oregon State University, Kelley Engineering Center The new Kelley Engineering Center houses the departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the focal point for student research, instruction and interdisciplinary research initiatives for new technologies. The four-story building contains two 60+ seat classrooms, administrative offices for two departments, computer labs, faculty offices, research labs, graduate offices and support spaces.  Featuring sustainable "green" design elements and achieving LEED-NC Gold certification in 2005, the new building includes wireless classrooms, flexible learning laboratories, office clusters, and common areas that encourage communication including, "plug-and-learn" alcoves built into spaces often underutilized in traditional building designs and a centrally located E-cafe, where faculty, staff, students, and industry partners can gather to share ideas.

Project Type: Education Rating System: N/A Certification Level: — Location: Honolulu, HI Punahou K-1 School Punahou K-1 School consist of new classroom wings as well the renovation of the historic Wilcox Hall, which will house creative arts classrooms and administration. The school is envisioned to exemplify Punahou School’s sustainability goals and be an example to the students, staff and community. An early eco-charrette was facilitated by GBS. Sustainable goals and strategies were identified that have guided the design process. GBS provided energy analysis and daylight modeling, and was able to inform early design decisions. The project will include a photovoltaic system, rainwater harvesting cisterns, use of daylight augmented with efficient lighting, low-flow plumbing fixtures, durable and low-VOC materials, natural ventilation supplemented by an efficient HVAC system.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC Certification Level: Gold Location: Portland, OR Rosa Park Elementary This new 71,000 square foot building will accommodate over 550 students and will service the newly redeveloped New Columbia area. The school consists of a two-story classroom wing, with a single-story shared space, that will also be jointly used by the Boys and Girls Club. All of the teaching spaces, in addition to the media center and Commons room, have natural light and operable windows. Material selection was carefully considered with emphasis based on low-emitting materials, recycled content, regional materials as well as durability and ease of maintenance. The school promotes alternative transportation with a carpool program, and will include the use of green cleaning products, integrated pest management practices and a comprehensive recycling program. An on-site photo-voltaic demonstration system will also be integrated into the curriculum, along with a signage program promoting sustainability using the project as an example.

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC Certification Level: Gold Location: The Dalles, OR The Dalles Middle School This new 96,000 square foot building accommodates over 600 6th-8th grade students in The Dalles School District. This project has an estimated energy savings of 51% compared to ASHRAE 90.1-1999. Green building strategies include site rehabilitation work with dewatering wells, well water used for heating, cooling and irrigation. The project also incorporated efficient lighting strategies that include light shelves, light tubes, sunshades, diffused skylights and T-5 lamps with controls.

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Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC Canada Certification Level: Platinum Location: Calgary, Alta. University of Calgary, Child Development Centre This 128,000 SF building offers multiple child development opportunities for various users including a University Child Care Center, Interdisciplinary Research, Family and Community Research and Clinical Services. In addition, the University developed uncommitted space for the expansion and accommodation of future programs. This project has adopted the University's policy on sustainability to meet or exceed the LEED Platinum standard in design, construction and operation. photo courtesy of Kasian   LEED Scorecard

Project Type: Education Rating System: LEED-NC 2.2 Certification Level: — Location: Lake Nona, FL University of Central Florida, College of Medicine This four-story College of Medicine building features 170,000 square feet of innovation and cutting-edge technology. The new facility will house the Health Sciences Library, Clinical Skills Center, Simulation and Learning Lab, Microscopy and Virtual Lab, and the Anatomy Lab. Pedestrian-friendly nature trails connect the new building to nearby residential neighbor­hoods, retail and entertainment activities, natural areas, lakes, parks, and schools. The build­ing is designed to achieve LEED-NC Silver certification in partnership with GBS.

Project Type: Education Rating System: N/A Certification Level: — Location: Honolulu, HI University of Hawaii, Performing Arts Facility University of Hawaii Performing Arts Facility will house the college of Performing Arts and is an addition to the historic Kennedy Theater. The building will be approximately 84,000 square feet and will house rehearsal and performance spaces, support studios, shops faculty offices and storage spaces. There will be 5 stories of above ground parking and the three stories of performance space. The top three floors are centered around an open air courtyard that will be used at performance and gallery areas. The project will include sun shading devices, use of daylighting, high efficiency mechanical equipment, native and adaptive plantings, low-water use plumbing fixtures, rainwater harvesting cisterns and many spaces will not have mechanical cooling. GBS’ work on the energy analysis was able to inform early design decisions.