Iowa Veterans Home

Marshalltown, Iowa

Client:
Iowa Dept. of Administrative Services
Iowa Veterans Home

Sitting on a 90-acre site, the campus serves 750 veterans and qualifying family members. Overall, this project includes four phases and is targeted for LEED® Gold Certification.

Schemmer incorporated the following SUSTAINABLE ELEMENTS into the design of Iowa Veterans’ Home:

Creative renovation design of existing buildings to extend their useful lives
Higher-efficiency windows, lighting, cooling, heating and plumbing
Heat transfer recovery systems to lower heating expenses
Rain Gardens
Pervious paving
Bio-swales to filter pollution and sediment from runoff
Detention basins to capture, channel and reuse water
Sensors to control lighting
Daylighting
Carpet and finishes with recycled and non-toxic content, or using regional sources of manufacture.
Low VOC Paint
Reduce construction waste, with fewer materials sent to landfills

To learn how Schemmer can turn your project into a green project please contact Mark Higgins, AIA, LEED® AP, at 1.888.877.8127

Statistics

551,500 SF Assessment
160,500 SF Phase 1 Addition
Targeted for LEED® Gold certification
Energy Use Assessment
Federal Agency Coordination
Master Planning, Programming

Services Provided