- Virginia Commonwealth University Walter L. Rice Education Building, Charles City County, VA: This 4,889 sf field station designed by Train Architects features ground source heat pumps, radiant floor heating, solar panels, and a vegetated roof. In 2009 it became the first project in Virginia to be LEED Platinum certified. In 2019 this project earned USGBC Virginia’s Green Building Legacy Award and People’s Choice Award.
- 1717 Innovation Center, Richmond, VA: This 40,000 sf renovation by SMBW Architects of a 100-year-old, five-story, heavy-timber tobacco warehouse now provides shared office space for the city’s entrepreneurial community as part of a non-profit project sponsored by Capital One. This project successfully maintains the historic character of the building while remaining on track to achieve LEED Silver certification.
- Overlook at Monarch Mills, Columbia, MD: The new development by Grimm + Parker rejuvenated this affordable housing community. SDC provided Green Communities process management for the residences as well as LEED-NC Gold-level process management for the clubhouse. It also won Best Large Affordable Housing Project from the 2013 Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers Housing.
- R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center, Washington, DC: This 14,600 sf adaptive re-use project designed by Cunningham Quill Architects converted a chapel on the St. Elizabeth’s campus into an innovation hub to support and showcase technology-related businesses. Construction was complete in 2014 and the project exceeded the LEED goal of Silver by achieving LEED-NC Gold-level certification in October 2016.
- 1701 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, DC: Hickock Cole’s design converted what was once a YMCA facility into 98,565 sf of Class A office space with a naturally-lit fitness center, penthouse conference facility, and landscaped roof terraces. The project reused a quarter of the original building, achieved more than 30% energy savings, more than 40% water savings, and achieved LEED Platinum-level certification in May 2019.
- VCU Institute for Contemporary Art at the Markel Center, Richmond, VA: This new 40,890 sf facility designed by Steven Holl with BCWH (now Quinn Evans) provides galleries, reception, and classroom space. In addition to LEED process management, SDC provided extensive daylight modeling for this uniquely shaped building, which achieved LEED Gold certification and AIA Virginia’s Excellence in Architecture Merit Award in 2018.
- Powell Elementary School, Washington, DC: : Designed by IStudio Architects, this 61,500 sf elementary school renovation of and addition to an existing two-story school building built by in 1929 was complete in April 2017. This project earned the Sustainability Award and the Design Excellence Award from AIA DC in 2019 and is poised to achieve LEED Gold certification.