H W Davis Construction, Inc. who’s most recent local project was the Shuttle Launch Experience at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex, will soon break ground on a new Propellants North Facility in the Launch Complex 39 area that will qualify for the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, Platinum designation.  It is the highest designation a LEED facility can achieve and will be the first for Kennedy Space Center.

The new facility will feature high-efficiency roof and walls, air conditioning with energy recovery technology, smart lighting controls with step dimming and occupancy sensors, water-conserving bathroom fixtures and high-velocity hand dryers. The facility also will have natural daylight using high windows and correct solar orientation; high-efficiency windows; and sustainable flooring using polished concrete and laminated bamboo.  The company will reuse deconstructed Launch Control Center firing room glazing and frames, and re-claimed and processed waste concrete from Kennedy’s demolition projects for facility foundation and paving sub base materials

The 10,730-square-foot facility will replace old facilities built in the 1960s. Jones Edmunds and Associates, Inc. of Titusville, Fla., and Green Building Services of Orlando, Fla., completed the design in 2008.

The new facility is scheduled to be complete in late 2010.