Kirksey

Kirksey LEED EB Headquarters in Houston, Texas
The Satterfield & Pontikes' building earned the first LEED Gold rating in Houston

Founded in 1971, Kirksey began as a small commercial architecture firm and today has evolved into a diverse organization of 11 specialized and practiced groups, each focusing on a particular business segment. Kirksey is headquartered in Houston, Texas on a LEED certified corporate campus.

Kirksey designs high-performance, healthy buildings for all clients. This was formalized through the creation of the EcoServices team, a private think-tank and consulting group whose focus is to mainstream environmentally friendly building practices. The team educates other firm members and the community on green building practices. A basicGREEN program was developed that prescribes sustainable design measures to be implemented on every project, regardless of LEED Certification and at no added cost to the project.

Kirksey currently has over 27,000,000 sq ft (2,500,000 m2) of LEED projects certified or underway, and has designed many of Houston's first LEED buildings including:

Kirksey retrofitted their building to become the first LEED EB (existing building) certified in Texas as well as operating internally as a green company for many years through recycling efforts, tree planting, green cleaning programs, alternative transportation incentives for employees.

Notable Kirksey projects

Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza in the Texas Medical Center

Awards

Texas Woman's University won many awards including interior design awards from IIDA and ASID

References

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