The Environmental Nature Center and Preschool, in Newport Beach, Ca., won a national AIA COTE Top 10 award last year. The LEED Platinum building has PV panels, which are designed to produce 105% of the net energy required to run the school. Photo by Costea Photography, courtesy of LPA.LPA, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, is the 2021 AIA California Firm Award winner. Recently, in Common\Edge, Martin Pedersen interviewed LPA’s president, Dan Heinfeld, FAIA, to ask how his firm became one of only two firms of more than 100 people to meet the 70% energy-reduction threshold set by the 2030 Commitment, and why the rest of the industry, despite a lot of good intentions, is lagging behind.
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