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Green Building of the Month: Carriage Farm

A new 12,000-sf office building in the Carriage Farm Business Community in Hillsborough has picked up LEED Silver Certification by the USGBC.

By Eric C. Peterson | Updated on September 06, 2007

A new 12,000-sf office building in the Carriage Farm Business Community in Hillsborough has picked up LEED Silver Certification by the USGBC. It’s the first commercial building in Somerset the County and 17th in New Jersey to earn that recognition for its energy and environmental design.

“Achieving a high level of energy efficiency was key to the building’s design,” says Ed Clerico, project manager and a principal of Carriage Farm LLC. “The installation of a geo-thermal heat pump system to provide heating and cooling combined with two 9.8-KW solar photovoltaic power systems, low E-glazing on all windows, and extensive use of low-energy fluorescent lights resulted in a 51% energy cost savings.”

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