Vive Verde will be located at 1005 Lake Avenue in Lake Worth, Florida. It will be a four-story office building with garage parking and retail on the ground floor level. This first floor will also be rich with gardens and a beautiful waterfall flowing into it from the second floor above. Tentatively, the two retail outlets on the first floor will be a "UPS Store" on the east side and a "specialty cafe-coffee shop" on the west side. The three floors above will contain office space and views into the center of the building looking into the Biolarium, gardens, streams, and waterfall. A "living roof" lush with plants, trees, gardens, and sitting and viewing areas will top the building. Vive Verde will be registered with the Green Building Council and will be LEED-Certified. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. Vive Verde will be a "Living Machine". 'Living Building' Systems create their synergy through the use, collection, treatment, and re-use of water. Building form and details are water-driven decisions producing a style called 'Aquatecture.' Dharma Living Systems, a pioneer of the green building movement, states the criteria for a Living Machine as: 1. Aesthetic appeal 2. Reliable performance 3. High quality final effluent suitable for a variety of reuse applications		THE OWNER Nancy Romano, President of Vive Verde, Inc., owner of the new "LIVING OFFICE BUILDING," asks "Can you imagine a society in modern times where we construct beautiful, livable, and workable office buildings and homes which in turn enhance the environment, recycle water, sustain energy, and provide a home for Mother Earth instead of buildings constructed which continuously wound our Planet Earth? This is a reality! It can and will happen , but it requires a vigilant and continuous focus on environmental needs and concerns." Nancy Romano can be reached at the law offices of Romano, Eriksen and Cronin West Palm Beach, Florida Phone: (561)533-6700 www.rec-law.com LEAD ARCHITECT John Szerdi of Dharma Living Systems, Taos, New Mexico. "Instead of placing a compact building form on an urban site and surround it with the obligatory perimeter landscape strip, we have decided to bring many of the natural elements inside and 'on top." Dharma Living Systems, Inc. Delray Beach, Florida Lake Worth, Florida Taos, New Mexico Phone: (505)758-5090 www.rec-law.com GENERAL CONTRACTOR James Kleen, Hedrick Brothers Construction Company West Palm Beach, Florida Phone: (561)689 8880 www.hedrickbrothers.com Design/Graphics/Planning Doug Patterson, Dharma Living Systems, Inc.Delray Beach, Florida Lake Worth, Florida Taos, New Mexico Phone: (505)758-5090 www.livingsystems.com Director of Engineering and Living Systems Technology Dave Maciolek Dharma Living Systems, Inc., Delray Beach, Florida Lake Worth, Florida Taos, New Mexico Phone: (505)751 9481 www.livingsystems.com Structural and civil engineers Principle Design and Development, LLC Lake Worth, Florida Phone: (561)533 5252 MEP engineers GRG Consulting Engineers, Inc.Orlando, Florida Phone: (407)660 0088 www.grgce.com Leed Consultant Greentime, LLC Orlando, Florida 407.909.1052 www.greentimellc.com Project Business Management MTS GROUP Phone: (561)994-6893
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