At the AIA convention in Denver I was lucky enough to pay 100$ to go on a sold out tour to NREL in Golden, CO. It was awesome, they just had built some of the most energy efficient offices in America. Pretty cool stuff, designed by Smith Group out of the Phoenix Office. Well worth the money and you can’t go on a tour anyother time, like we did, so it was a win-win, it was a newly completed building.
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