Church honored for green efforts
By Cassandra Crockett
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/20/2008 11:58:10 PM MDT
The LDS Church's City Creek development is being lauded as a model for green design.
On pleasant days beginning in 2012, the glass panels covering the retail section of downtown Salt Lake City's City Creek Center will retract, exposing a once enclosed complex to open air.
The 300-by-70-foot ceiling will act as City Creek's air conditioner on warm days but hold in warmth during stormy or windy days.
"You can open up the roof like the windows of your house when it's nice outside," said Bill Williams, City Creek Reserve Inc.'s director of architecture and engineering.
The ceiling is one way that the LDS Church is making its massive City Creek development in downtown Salt Lake City greener, efforts that the Sierra Club honored this week in its first "Faith in
Action" report. Read the rest
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