[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Building Named "Best State Agency Building" by Readers of Arizona Capitol Times

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ADEQ Building Named "Best State Agency Building" by Readers of Arizona
Capitol Times

PHOENX (June 4, 2009) - The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) building, located at 1110 W. Washington Street in Phoenix, took
first place in the "Best State Agency Building" category for the Arizona
Capitol Times' "Best of the Capitol" contest.

The ADEQ building was polled by the readers of Arizona Capitol Times
through its Web site and mail-in ballots. 

The ADEQ building is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design) Silver-Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. ADEQ moved
into the building in 2002.

Among the many features that make the building "green": a landscape and
exterior designed to reduce the heat-island effect; interior lighting
that uses energy-saving dimming fluorescent ballasts that are controlled
by photocells and produce no more light than is needed; a 900-panel
rooftop solar power grid; construction materials made of recycled, local
and regional materials; and a water-efficient landscape.

"All of us here at ADEQ are honored to accept this award," said ADEQ
Acting Director Patrick J. Cunningham. "We are proud of this building
and the many features that it has to produce a more sustainable
environment." 

For more information on the ADEQ building:
http://www.azdeq.gov/environ/waste/p2/download/gbbrochure.pdf

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contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
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