George Karidis, PE, LEED AP, Vice President, SmithGroup, Detroit

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Lighting and Lighting Controls May 1, 2008

Constitution Center chills out

As Washington, D.C.-based David Nassif Assocs. rejuvenates its namesake building, the full-block marble clad structure is shedding its aging skin and MEP systems. It will re-emerge in late 2009 as Constitution Center, the first large-scale building in the United States to use chilled-beam technology, and one of the largest USGBC LEED Core and Shell Development (LEED CS) projects to date.

By George Karidis, PE, LEED AP, Vice President, SmithGroup, Detroit