Design center's green award.
Herman Miller's National Design Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City
City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. has received the coveted LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC USGBC United States Green Building Council ) in the Commercial Interiors (CI) category.
It's the first LEED-CI Gold rating to be awarded in New York City. The USGBC developed the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. ) rating system to encourage the development of more sustainable buildings and interiors.
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