VA COTE + USGBC Building Tour: Harvesting the Elements: How The Nature Conservancy Harnessed the Sun, Water and Plants
Join AIAVA COTE and USGBC for our 2026 building tour series! We wish to celebrate exciting and innovative sustainable building design around the Commonwealth. Each month we will focus on a project in one of the five AIA Virginia component areas that has achieved LEED or other sustainable certification. Tours will provide AIA and USGC CEU’s for participants.
Join us on April 23rd for a tour of The Nature Conservancy’s 8-story office building in Arlington, VA where systems were upgraded including increasing air-tightness of exterior envelope, capture of waste heat, air scrubbers and monitoring system via cloud based building management. Photovoltaics, a green roof and a cistern to collect rainwater to reduce stormwater runoff also contributed to the 50.2% reduction in energy consumption.
1 AIA LU | HSW
1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C and LEED Green Associate CE
AIA Member: $15
USGBC Member: $15
Non-Member: $30
Students: FREE
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*Registration closes at 12:00pm on 4/22.
*Attendees must wear closed toed shoes
