- To promote investment in transportation, electricity, industrial, building, and agricultural sectors that reduce energy bills -White House
As seen in history, Dupont has been leading the movement through its transformation of existing residential buildings to commercial sectors. Nowadays, many buildings are becoming retrofitted to being greener. According to the Global Sustainable Building Management Initiative this creates:
A tremendous market opportunity for green builders, owners and building product manufacturers," according to the [White House home energy retrofit] report…The study concludes that the greatest opportunity for green design and construction activity lies not in constructing new green buildings, but in engaging in the retrofit and renovation of existing onesLEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third party verification that a building or a community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performances across all the metrics that matter most as stated on their webpage. They evaluate a building or community on five main criteria:
- site selection
- water efficiency
- energy efficiency
- reduction/reuse/recycling of building materials
- enhanced IAQ (indoor air quality)
Many buildings located today in Dupont are LEED Certified which contribute to the community’s buildings being varied and eclecticc due to the transformation from residential to commercial. In 1923, the Riggs Bank building that went up on the site of one of the Circle’s first mansions signaled the change in use of many of the properties from residential to community. Many of these grand Victorian mansions along Massachusetts Avenues were later converted to embassies, creating what is now known as Embassy Row.
Other mansions around the Dupont corridor now house art collections like the Phillips Collection or have been turned into historical museums.
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