Lemmen Holton Cancer Pavilion earns gold LEED certification
Elizabeth Slowik

The Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion has been awarded gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, Spectrum Health announced Wednesday.

Among the building’s green features:

Underground parking, reflective roofing and rooftop vegetation to reduce the urban heat island effect.

Low-flow plumbing fixtures, rainwater collection and high efficiency irrigation to reduce water usage.

Savings on energy use through a high-performance building envelope, heat recovery, use-reduction design in heating, ventilation and air condition and lighting systems and controls.

Use of regional and recycled products.

Low-emission interior materials.

The six-story, 284,000-square-foot, $92 million facility in downtown Grand Rapids has no inpatient beds. It provides chemotherapy and radiation to cancer patients and houses doctors’ offices, a shop and a café. It was designed by URS Corp. and construction manager was The Christman Co.

While the cancer facility is the only gold-level certified health care facility in Michigan, the 469,000-square-foot, $170 million Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, which opened with 208 inpatient beds in 2007 in Metro Health Village, is LEED-certified.