iowa utilities board - Office of Consumer Advocate BNIM designed the recently completed, energy efficient office building to house the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) and the Office of the Consumer Advocate (OCA). An infill development on the State of Iowa Capitol Complex in Downtown Des Moines, the project was developed on a challenging, awkwardly proportioned landfill site and serves to create a gateway to the complex at its southeast corner. The building will serve as a testament to the sustainable stewardship of the State of Iowa. It is a model energy efficient office building demonstrating proven, cost-effective energy efficiency measures for new construction. The project was designed to integrate replicable sustainable strategies; serving as a demonstration project for other government facilities at the state and local level, and also for the general public and private enterprise. While many of the employed strategies are “off the shelf” to various degrees or have been used elsewhere, what makes this application particularly significant is the multitude of strategies integrated together to achieve a building of exemplary energy performance. The facility is consuming 81.4 percent less energy than the national average for energy consumption of office buildings.
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