Excerpt from article featured in Facility Executive
The new Visitor Center and Museum at Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO is one of only 10 National Park Service sites to be awarded LEED certification.
Located almost completely underground and featuring a 3.1-acre green roof, the newly renovated Visitor Center and Museum at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO has been awarded LEED Gold. Thanks to the buildng’s sustainable site development, water savings, and building materials selection, the Visitor Center and Museum join the exclusive ranks of on ly 10 other LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified sites in the national Park Service and 185 LEED projects in St. Louis.
Cooper Robertson and James Carpenter Design Associates, with Trivers Associates, designed the 150,000-square-foot expanded and renovated Visitor Center and Museum at the Gateway Arch. Ground breaking on the project took place in April 2015 and it opened to the public in July 2018.
