Last November, the Hamilton County Juvenile Court facility, the former Times Star Building, located at 800 Broadway Avenue in downtown Cincinnati, was the first government building in Cincinnati, and one of the first three in the State of Ohio, to receive Certification in the LEED’s Existing Building: Operations and Maintenance (EB+OM) program. The nineteen story, 355,000 square foot building was originally constructed in 1937 and is on the National Historic Registry. Hamilton County bought the building in 1992 and renovated it to house governmental offices and courtroom spaces. Today, the building has 685 full-time occupants and on average 100 daily visitors. The certification project team included Hamilton County’s Facility Department, GBBN Architects, ThermalTech Engineering, and THP Limited, Inc.

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