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Cold Goes Gold

Cold storage facility achieves LEED Gold certification.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on October 15, 2009

SAN DIEGO-Given the amount of energy needed to keep anything at -10 degrees Fahrenheit, it would seem impossible to make a refrigerated building green. Yet a cold storage facility in the San Diego area has achieved LEED gold certification, and just shy of Platinum status.

The 134,946-square-foot Innovative Cold Storage Enterprises (ICE) pre-packaged food storage facility occupies 6.78 acres in the Otay Mesa submarket. The building also contains approximately 5,000 square feet of office space. Despite a number of challenges, the building is a laboratory of efficiency techniques and technologies, many of which can be applied to other structures, says Hamann Cos., its general contractor.

“It seemed impossible in the beginning,” says Gregg Hamann, vice president and CFO of Hamann Cos. “But I’m part of a dying breed–I’m a naturalist. We’ve had a commitment to sustainability for years.”

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