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Perkins+Will Completes Dockside Green Residential Phase I
July 23, 2008

The completion of the highest-scoring LEED Platinum Certified building on record, Dockside Green Residential Phase I, located in Victoria, British Columbia, marks its fourth LEED Platinum Certified project and Perkins+Will’s 29th LEED Certified project.  In addition to designing Phase 1, Perkins+Will was responsible for the design of the master plan for the entire 15-acre mixed-use Dockside Green development, which is expected to become the first LEED Platinum community in the world. Dockside Green Phase I, includes four detached buildings constructed over a common underground parking structure, including a nine-story residential tower with minor commercial units on the ground floors; a two-story townhouse; a six-story building with minor commercial units on the ground floor; and, a four-story residential building.


 
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