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December 7, 2007 - At a public meeting
last night, the City of Knoxville announced that the new Knoxville
Transit Center would be a certified green building. The transit
center design team is attempting to achieve Silver certification
for the project through the US Green Building Council’s LEED
for New Construction program by designing for excellence in five
categories of construction:
Sustainable Sites
Water Efficiency
Energy & Atmosphere
Materials & Resources
Indoor Environmental Quality
Additional air quality mitigation measures are to be designed into
KAT’s operational plan for the new Transit Center. A GPS-based
Automatic Vehicle Locator system will reduce the idle-time of buses,
and the buses themselves will be equipped with state-of-the-art
pollution control equipment.
The initial design and architectural renderings for the new transit
station can be seen on the City’s website at http://www.cityofknoxville.org/transit/120607.asp.
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