The Kimball Office showroom in New York City has earned a Certified rating under the LEED-CI standard.

"Creating eco-friendly facilities is embedded in our design criteria, as it is for many of our customers," says Douglas Prickett, director of sustainable design, Kimball Office. "Using the LEED-CI guidelines helped us improve the environmental performance of our New York space and gave us an effective model for demonstrating environmentally sustainable ideas and solutions to commonly experienced renovation problems."

Partnering with Kimball Office on the design of the 12,000-sq.-ft. space at 215 Park Avenue South was TVS Interiors of Chicago, Atlanta, Dubai and Shanghai.

TVS implemented several strategies. These included recycling more than 75 percent of the
project's waste materials and sharing the project as part of an educational program to give clients insight to "green building" design and environmentally friendly products.

Other sustainable strategies involved preservation of natural resources through the use of local, recycled and rapidly renewable materials; optimization of occupants' well-being through the use of natural light and monitoring of thermal comfort; minimization or elimination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in materials specified for paints, adhesives, carpets and composite wood materials; reducing water consumption by incorporating low-flow water
conservation fixtures.