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North Dakota State University: NDSU Downtown is the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construction registered building in North Dakota since the inception of the LEED Rating system in 2000. Completed in 2004, "[s]ome of the building's sustainable accomplishments include: 94% of the occupants have access to outside views and daylight, 79% of the building and its existing materials were reused or salvaged, and high-efficient equipment and other sustainable techniques save the owner 16% in energy costs." Greening of NDSU Downtown
Waldsee BioHaus, Concordia Language Villages: "Under the guidance of architect Stephan Tanner of INTEP, LLC, a Minneapolis- and Munich-based consulting company for high performance and sustainable construction, Waldsee BioHaus is modeled on Germany’s Passivhaus standard: a highly-efficient building design (beyond that of the U.S. LEED standard which improves quality of life inside the building while using 85% less energy than comparable U.S. structures."
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