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Address: South Korea (near Incheon and Seoul)
Architect: Kohn Pederson Fox
Owner: Gale International
PROJECT SUMMARY
1,500 acre new mixed-use city. When completed in 2012, New Songdo City will include 350 buildings, housing 65,000 residents and a workforce of 300,000 people. The development is being designed and constructed to LEED-ND guidelines, and each of the 350 buildings on the site will be LEED certified.
YRG SERVICES
- Coordinating the LEED-ND Pilot Program participation
- Developing overarching green design principles
- Strategic guidance with the project’s overall sustainability goals
- LEED-ND review and documentation
- Carbon footprint initiative
- Marketing and branding support
STRATEGIES AND RESULTS
- New York Times article on New Songdo
- Focus on density and open space (1,415 acres with 515 acres of green space)
- 15.35 miles of bike path
- All buildings to be LEED Certified
- Major buildings to be LEED Silver
- Showcase buildings to be LEED Platinum
- Emphasis on alternative transportation
- Bus rapid transit
- New subway line
- Hydrogen buses
- Water taxis
- Class 1 bike path
- Bike share programs
- Water re-use network: grey and black-water reuse for irrigation, cooling towers, toilet flushing, street cleaning
- Waste collection: city-wide pneumatic waste collection; extensive recycling program
- Energy network: district heating and cogen facility
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Targeting LEED-ND certification
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