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NASHVILLE
Going Green in the Fire Department
On June 16, 2017, the Metro Nashville
Fire Department’s Station 19 was awarded
the Governor’s Environmental Stewardship
Award in Building Green for its LEED
Platinum certification. Station 19 is the
first fire station to achieve this level of
LEED certification in the entire Southeast,
a major achievement for both the Fire
Department and the Metro Nashville
Department of General Services. Also, in
October 2017 they won an award for best
community engagement from the U.S.
Green Building Council, for the promoting
of Fire Station 19 through tours and other
outreach.
A Work in Progress
Fire Station 19 is one in a long line of
sustainability projects across the city, and to design Station 19. Every aspect of the
its success is the culmination of a lot of
hard work from a number of groups. In
2007, a Metro ordinance was passed to
require all Metro buildings of 5,000 square
feet or larger to be built or renovated to
LEED Silver or higher standards. Since
the ordinance, the Department of General
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Services has built 21 LEED roughly 15.5 percent of the building’s
certified buildings: 12 LEED total energy usage. Station 19 is actually
Silver, eight LEED Gold, the seventh solar powered fire station
and one LEED Platinum – constructed by General Services.
Station 19 itself. Of these
21 buildings, nine are fire Windows were minimized on the
stations, with five LEED eastern and western sides of the building,
Silver, three LEED Gold, to reduce the amount of direct heat.
and one LEED Platinum. During its construction, 63 percent of
The other buildings include the construction waste was diverted from
libraries, police precincts, the landfill, 16 percent of its content
and other public buildings.
Fire Station 19
Nashville’s Department of
General Services partnered
with greenSTUDIO, a consulting group
within Hastings Architecture Associates,
design was considered to produce the
most energy-efficient, environmentally-
conscious building possible, with
renewables covering an estimated $4,000
of its energy spending a year. The building
was oriented towards the south, perfect
for its 33 kW solar array, which provides
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